Personality and soul cards

[corvus]

My personality card is 10, which is The Wheel of Fortune. My soul card is the Magician.

I have heard before, how you find these cards. To find your personality card, add your month, day and year of birth together. Add the result together until a number between 1 and 21 is reached.

The Lotus Pond has an example: May 10, 1977 is 5+10+1977 = 1992 = 1+9+9+2 = 21

You find your soul card by reducing the number of your personality card to a single digit number.

Example: 21 is 2+1 = 3

What interests me are the meanings of the personality and soul cards. I just can't understand how my personality is similar to The Wheel of Fortune card. And the Magician? No idea. My near relative's personality card is also The Wheel of Fortune, and her personality is different from me in several ways. So what is common in all Wheels of Fortune? Or Magicians?

Also, is number eight the equivalent of Justice and number 11 Strength, or the other way round, when you think about personality cards?

Comments

my personality and soul cards

[kristinaa]

My personality card is Justice and my soul card is the High Priestess. To me, it makes sense; I'm desperate to be a lawyer, and I'm always described as a bit mysterious.

[ginnflynn]

I'd never done the personality card/soul card thing before. My number was 4 for both, so I suppose I'm the Emperor on all counts? That makes some sense, I guess, since I tend to be a control freak with myself, and especially about my environment. But at the same time, I really struggle with taking control of certain aspects of my life, like getting up at a decent hour and actually doing the things I plan on doing.

I don't know much about what personality/soul cards mean, but with the Wheel of Fortune, I would ask: Do your moods shift quite often? Do you have a natural knack for attracting luck? Do you find yourself going through the same types of cycles a lot? And the Magician seems like it would be a great soul card; you always have what you need for your journey, even when you don't know it!

Also...

[ginnflynn]

With the Strength/Justice thing, I'd imagine that whichever one resonates strongest with the person is their card.

[elf]

Of course personality cards don't mean "everyone with this card has the same basic personality;" that'd mean everyone born on the same day has the same personality.

It means they are ruled by the same forces, that they are strongly influenced by the same types of patterns.

Wheel of Fortune is a card of change and variety; it shows a microcosm in dynamic balance--the guardians of the four elements, and a spinning wheel. (And other pieces--words of power, symbols of divine influence, etc., but those vary by deck.) The lesson of the WoF is that whatever seems most prominent and important right now, it's transitory; another, equally important, situation or event or person, will soon be in the forefront. Coping with the endless shifts and returns (because it's a wheel, not a line) requires an awareness of large and small forces, and a sense of balance to ride the transitions between them.

The Magician is a card of readiness. He stands at the altar, tools at hand--one for each of the four elements that are the basis of all matter. It connects very well with the Wheel and its ever-changing situations.

Re: Justice/Strength: It depends on the deck you use. Pick one, and stick with it, until you understand what makes different decks different, and why it's not the same as just having a pack of cards numbered 1-78 with a cluster of keywords on them.

The deck is a mirror of the cosmos: all of reality is reflected in the deck. (Of course, this is not literally true; any human creation and most divine ones are limited. The deck doesn't show "all of reality," but "all of reality as understood by the deck's creators.") Learning the patterns the creators used is part of understanding the deck.

Swapping two cards doesn't just change their meanings, it changes the meanings of all the other cards in the deck, because they all relate to each other, both as a pictoral storyline and numerologically.

[stellina]

Hm, I haven't really heard of the personality/soul card thing before. The numerological method I learned was that you add month, day and year of birth together, and reduce until you find something within 1-21, which wasn't expressly referred to as the personality card, but seems to function in the same manner. (This gives me the High Priestess.)

Then I learned you do the same thing for your most recent birthday -- day, month and year, to find out what sort of year you are currently in. I find it helpful, just to get a sense of what's currently important and areas to focus on/where there might be difficulties. (My current year seems to be Hierophant, with this method)

I also like that with the second card, things are a little less static.

[sashajwolf]

I also get 4 for both. I can see it for personality, but not sure about soul. I'm not sure I buy that numbers on the calendar have much significance, tbh.

[princessofgeeks]

Mary Greer's books "Tarot for Yourself" and "Tarot Constellations", the second of which draws on the work of Angeles Arrien, are terrific for these linkages between the different cards.

I love both those books (and both those authors) and recommend them highly.