How To Calculate Your Personality and Soul Card

The most effective way to learn Tarot is by integrating the cards into your life experiences, allowing you to connect with them in both insightful and practical ways. 

Through this process, you can uncover new facets of your personality, character, strengths, and weaknesses. 

Additionally, the cards can guide you in exploring your true purpose in life.

Here, you'll learn how to determine your personality and soul cards:

• Personality Card: This card reveals what you need to learn in this lifetime
• Soul Card: This card represents your soul's purpose across all lifetimes

Both cards are found in the Major Arcana. 

You can calculate them as follows:

Your date of birth – e.g. 17-08-1932

17 + 8 + 1932 = 1957

1 + 9 + 5 + 7 = 22

In this case 22 represents The Fool (0), so the Fool is your personality card.

If your personality card is one of the two-digit trumps (10 – 22), you can add both together to determine your Soul card, e.g. 2 + 2 = 4

So in this example, The Fool is the personality card, and the Emperor (4) is the soul card.

If your birth date adds up to single digit number (2 - 9), then your personality card is also your soul card.

Self-Exploration

Now that you've identified your personality and soul cards, place them side by side and examine each one carefully. 

Describe each card and reflect on what it means to you and your life. Consider the messages they convey and what you can learn from them.

• Do these cards reflect your character? 
• What lessons do they teach you?

Remember, your personality card reflects your life lessons, and your soul card your soul purpose (inner wisdom, inner teacher, spiritual path).

My personality card is the Hermit. Discover the life lessons I gained when I worked out this card for the first time.

If you enjoy this kind of tarot self-exploration, check out my online tarot courses.

Warmest wishes,

Christiane

Exploring Your Tarot Persona Cards

Sharman-Caselli Tarot © 2005 Connections Book Publishing Ltd

The court cards in the Tarot represent personality types, and in a reading they can relate to people, energies or personality traits that need either to be applied to a certain situation or avoided.

If you use the Tarot to deepen your self-knowledge, you can explore your personality (and that of others) by identifying your tarot persona card and its opposing shadow card.

First of all, find your persona card from the list below; this card relates to your sun sign:

Aries—Queen of Wands

Taurus—King of Pentacles

Gemini—Knight of Swords

Cancer—Queen of Cups

Leo—King of Wands

Virgo—Knight of Pentacles

Libra—Queen of Swords

Scorpio—King of Cups

Sagittarius—Knight of Wands

Capricorn—Queen of Pentacles

Aquarius—King of Swords

Pisces—Knight of Cups

The Pages are not included in this list. However, if you resonate more with the child-like energy of a Page rather than a Knight, Queen, or King, you can choose the Page of the suit that corresponds to your sun sign. 

For example, if you are a Gemini (Knight of Swords), you can opt for the Page of Swords instead.

Next, idntify your opposing card by taking the following two steps:

1. Select the opposite role of your persona card, e.g. if you are a King, select Page:

• King - Page
• Queen - Knight
• Knight - Queen
• Page - King

2. Select the opposite of your suit, e.g. if you are Cups, choose Wands:

• Wands - Cup
• Cups - Wands
• Swords - Pentacles
• Pentacles - Swords

So, for me with my sun sign in Pisces this means that my persona card is the Knight of Cups, and my opposing shadow card is the Queen of Wands.

Your persona card relating to your sun sign reflects your outer personality and your strengths; personality traits you openly express and feel comfortable with.

Your shadow card on the other hand indicates hidden elements of your personality, weaknesses, and character traits and behaviours you prefer to keep hidden, are unconsciously suppressed, or may need to be developed.

In my case, the Knight of Cups reflects my introvert, dreamy and intuitive personality, and the Queen of Wands indicates a need to be more social, take action and feel more confident about my abilities.

Try this exercise with family members, colleagues and friends. This way you can explore and identify people's strengths and weaknesses and develop good judgement of character over time.

And please do let me know, what you have learned from your persona and shadaow cards about yourself. I'd love to hear from you 😃

Warmest wishes,

Christiane

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