Birth cards

[greydragonmagic]

A while ago I made some pictures meant to explain how birthcards are calculated. Here they are:




(also in a post on tumblr)

Here's a link to a card calculator so you don't have to do the math.

Do you guys know about birthcards? What do you think of them? Do you like yours?

Comments

[thedaughteroftyr]

According to this mine is a 7 so The Chariot and The Tower.

I haven't ever toyed with 'birthcards' which is rather surprising seeing as it has a basis in numerology.

How do you use birthcards in your readings?

[greydragonmagic]

I don't really use them in readings but I'm curious to see if others do. You could probably use them as signifiers if you read with signifiers which I never tried.
Mine are the Moon and the Hermit and I can probably say that because of this I'm more inclined to interpret the Hermit in readings as relating to me. Especially that it's also a card related to my sun sign, Virgo. And I feel like I can relate to both of them quite easily. Do you think the Chariot and the Tower are fitting for you?

[thedaughteroftyr]

I do read with significators, but I generally use 'The Devil' as it aligns with my zodiac sign.

I think these two cards are polar opposites, one is about driving force, forward movement and self assurance... where the other is about delays, upheaval and breaking down the ego. So it works but really only because it is so vague.



I definitely relate to The Hermit myself, but I've always been more of a The Star type over The Moon.

[waitingamelia]

I got number 12 - 21 and 3~

[elf]

My numbers add up to 100. I suppose that's the 10/1 combination, but that's a weird way to look at it. (If I add up the numbers as single digits instead of splitting the year into a pair of two-digit numbers, I get 37, which nicely reduces to 10 & 1.)

[greydragonmagic]

Hmm, did you double check with the calculator?

[elf]

The calculator turns up the 10/1 split, which is what I expected; it doesn't show the math it used. In the past, I'd always heard "add up all the single digits;" I assume the instruction to split the year into two parts is to guarantee getting at least a two-digit number. Otherwise, someone born on March 1, 2002 is an 8, without the extra number. (Even if split, though, they're 26/8 rather than 17/8.)

The links to the tumblr post and calculator are broken - they're using "a herf" instead of "a href". I had to use "view source" to find them.

[greydragonmagic]

Oh no, I'm really sorry about that, should be fixed now.