Calculate Your Yearly Tarot Archetype
Understanding Your Yearly Archetype
Your Growth Archetype (year card) functions as your personal curriculum—a 12-month initiation into a specific Major Arcana energy. This isn't about predicting what will happen to you. Your year card reveals what you're learning, what energy is available to work with, and what themes will thread through your experiences from one birthday to the next.
Your year card is determined by your birth date and the current year, creating a unique archetypal signature for each annual cycle—from your birthday to your next birthday.
How to Work With Your Year Card
Your Persona Archetype and your Growth Archetype serve different purposes in tarot's archetypal wisdom:
Knowing your tarot year card is just the beginning. The real transformation comes from consciously working with that archetypal energy throughout your 12-month cycle.
Track Your Year's Themes
Notice how your Growth Archetype's energy shows up in your life. If you're in a Tower Year, you might experience sudden changes or necessary breakdowns. If you're in a Temperance Year, you might be called to find balance and integration. Your circumstances aren't random—they're reflecting your year card's curriculum.
Use Seasonal Guidance
Each year card has seasonal expressions. Your year card page includes quarter-by-quarter themes showing how the archetype shifts as you move through fall, winter, spring, and summer. Working with these seasonal energies helps you flow with your year rather than resist it.
Practice Integration Rituals
Every year card offers specific practices—meditations, journaling prompts, tarot spreads, and rituals—designed to help you embody that archetype. These aren't busy work; they're how you transform intellectual understanding into lived wisdom.
Journal Your Journey
Keep a year card journal documenting how the archetype appears in your life. At the end of your 12-month cycle, you'll have a record of your initiation—proof of how you've grown, what you've released, and what you've become.
Tarot Year Card Calculator
Discover Your Current
Year's Archetypal Initiation
Your tarot year card reveals the Major Arcana archetype guiding your current 12-month cycle—from birthday to birthday. Unlike your Persona Archetype (which never changes and represents your lifetime expression), your Growth Archetype shifts annually, showing you the specific lessons, challenges, and transformations available in this chapter of your life.
Our yearly tarot card calculator identifies which of the 22 Major Arcana cards is initiating you right now. Each year brings a new archetypal energy to work with—whether you're in a Tower year of upheaval, a Star year of hope, or an Emperor year of building authority.
Your year card operates like a spiritual curriculum, offering month-by-month themes, seasonal practices, and shadow work specific to this archetypal journey. Calculate your current tarot year card below to understand what this year is asking of you.
Your Growth Archetype
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Your Persona Archetype
These two cards work together but serve different purposes:
Your Persona Archetype
WHO YOU ARE (lifetime expression)
This never changes. It's your personality, your core identity, your permanent archetypal blueprint.
For instance, you might be a High Priestess Persona Archetype (lifetime archetype of intuition and mystery) while currently in a Chariot Growth year (12-month initiation into willpower and directed action). Your Persona is your foundation; your Growth Archetype is your evolution.
What Each Year Card Brings
Every yearly tarot card offers:
✦ Seasonal themes - How the archetype expresses through each quarter of your year
✦ Monthly lessons - Specific focus areas as you move through the 12-month cycle
✦ Shadow work - What unconscious patterns this year asks you to integrate
✦ Integration practices - Rituals and exercises aligned with this archetype's medicine
✦ Growth opportunities - The gifts and transformations available through this initiation
What Happens After You Calculate
Once you calculate your tarot year card, you'll receive:
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Your specific Growth Archetype for this annual cycle
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A link to your complete year card pillar page with month-by-month guidance
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Understanding of how this year's archetype shapes your experiences
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Seasonal practices and integration rituals for your year
Your Growth Archetype
WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING (annual initiation)
This changes every year. It's your current chapter, the specific lessons and evolution available to you right now.
Frequently Asked Questions About Yearly Tarot Cards
Your year card cycle runs from birthday to birthday, not January to December. If you were born July 15, your new Growth Archetype begins July 15 each year and runs through July 14 of the following year.
Yes. You can calculate any year's card by adjusting the year in the calculation. This is helpful for understanding past initiations or preparing for upcoming cycles. A 10-Year calculator will be available on this site soon. Create an account to be alerted.
No year card is inherently bad. "Difficult" cards often bring the most profound growth. A Death Year initiates transformation. A Tower Year clears what's unsustainable. A Devil Year confronts shadow patterns. These are powerful initiations, not punishments.
Your Growth Archetype is based on the Major Arcana and runs birthday to birthday. Astrological transits track planetary movements. Both are valid systems describing different dimensions of your experience.
No. Your year card doesn't predict events; it reveals the energy and lessons available to you. How you work with that energy determines your experience. The year card is an invitation, not a mandate.
Navigate Your Year With Archetypal Wisdom
Calculate your year card above, then explore your 12-month initiation deeply. Each year card page includes:
✦ Month-by-month themes and guidance
✦ Seasonal practices aligned with the archetype
✦ Shadow work for this year's lessons
✦ Integration rituals and tarot spreads
✦ What to embrace and what to release
✦ How to work with this year's challenges and gifts