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Major Arcana

Calculate your Major Arcana birth cards using your date of birth based 22 archetypes.

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Enter your date of birth to reveal your personality and soul cards.

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What Does Arcana Mean?

Arcana, Major Arcana, and Arcana Number: What’s the Difference?

What Is Arcana?

Arcana is the complete set of tarot cards, rooted in the Latin word for “secrets” or “hidden knowledge.”

What Is the Major Arcana?

The Major Arcana is the set of 22 archetypal tarot cards from The Fool to The World representing life’s major themes, lessons, and turning points.

What Is an Arcana Number?

An Arcana Number is a personal numerological value derived from your birth date, which maps to one of the 22 Major Arcana cards.

FAQs

The 22 Major Arcana are numbered 0 through 21, starting with The Fool and ending with The World, each representing a major life archetype or theme such as transformation, intuition, or new beginnings.

Your Major Arcana (or birth card) is found by adding the digits of your full birth date together and reducing the total until you get a number between 0 and 21, which then corresponds to one of the 22 cards.

Not quite — there are actually 22 Major Arcana cards, numbered 0 to 21; The Fool is card 0, which is why some people miscount and say 21

Card 12 is The Hanged Man, representing surrender, pause, and seeing things from a new perspective.

The Sun (card 19) is widely considered the luckiest card, symbolizing joy, vitality, success, and positive outcomes.