Alright, so I wanted to share a bit about how I got into making my own tarot numerology charts. It wasn’t like I woke up one day and decided to become a mystic or anything. It actually started pretty mundanely. I was going through a phase, you know, where things felt a bit samey, and I was looking for something to just… dig into. Something a bit different.
Getting Started with Numbers and Cards
I’d fiddled with numerology a little bit before. Just the basic stuff, like figuring out a life path number from a birthday. It was kind of a neat party trick. Then, separately, I got a tarot deck. A friend gave it to me, and for a while, it just sat on my shelf looking pretty. But then I started actually looking at the cards, the pictures, the symbols. It was intriguing, to say the least.
One evening, I was shuffling the tarot deck, just kind of idly, and I was also thinking about those numerology basics. And a thought popped into my head: “I wonder if these two things can talk to each other properly?” I mean, tarot cards have numbers, right? The Major Arcana are numbered. The suits have numbers. It seemed like there had to be a connection.
My Process of Making a Chart
So, I decided to try and make my own system, my own kind of chart. I didn’t want to just read a book and copy someone else’s method. I wanted to see if I could make it make sense for me.
Here’s what I did, step-by-step, more or less:
- Gathering My Thoughts (and Tools): First, I just got a plain notebook and a pen. Nothing fancy. I figured I needed to jot down ideas as they came. I also had my tarot deck handy, obviously.
- Focusing on the Birth Date: I started with what I knew from numerology – the birth date. I calculated the life path number. That felt like a good anchor point. I wrote that down, nice and big at the top of a page.
- Connecting to the Major Arcana: Then I thought, “Okay, which tarot card lines up with this number?” For numbers 1 through 21, it was pretty straightforward – just match it to the Major Arcana card. For 22, I went with The Fool, which is often 0 or 22. If the life path number was higher, I’d reduce it down until it fit, just like in standard numerology. I’d lay out that tarot card next to the number.
- Breaking Down the Birth Date Further: I didn’t want to stop there. I started breaking down the birth date into individual components: the month, the day, and the year. I reduced each of these to a single digit too (or a master number like 11, 22 if they showed up). For each of these core numbers, I again pulled out the corresponding Major Arcana card.
- The “Chart” Takes Shape: I then started to arrange these on a larger piece of paper. I put the Life Path number and its card in the center. Then, I created sections for the Month, Day, and Year numbers and their cards around it. It started looking like a bit of a mind map, or a constellation.
- Adding More Layers (Eventually): Later on, I experimented with adding other numbers, like the sum of the vowels in a name (the Soul Urge) or the consonants (the Personality number), and finding tarot connections for those too. But I started simple, with just the birth date stuff. The key for me was not to get overwhelmed.
- Just Observing: I didn’t try to do full-blown readings at first. I would just look at the numbers and the cards I’d laid out. What themes did I see? Did the energies of the cards seem to vibe with the numbers? It was more of a reflective practice.
What I Figured Out
What I realized was that this wasn’t about finding some ancient, hidden secret. It was about creating a personal framework. The act of building the chart itself was the insightful part. It made me think about the numbers and the cards in a new way. I wasn’t just passively receiving information; I was actively making connections.
So, yeah, that’s pretty much how I went about making my first tarot numerology charts. It was a lot of trial and error, a lot of just sitting with the components and seeing what clicked. It’s still something I tinker with, actually. It’s a personal tool, and like any tool, you get better at using it the more you handle it.
