So if you missed last week’s newsletter, here are the instructions for calculating your year card for 2024.
The best way to get insight on what your 2024 year card might bring is to look back on other years when you had the same year card. The year card cycles through in 9 year increments.
You had the same year card as 2024 in:
- 2015
- 2006
- 1997
- 1988
- 1979
- 1970
The only exception to this is you may have had a year card that reduces to your current year card or vice versa. A quick example will clear this up. Say your 2024 year card is 16 which corresponds to the Tower Card. A previous year card in the 9 year cycle could be a 7 (the Chariot) because 1 + 6 = 7. Or vice versa. Instead of a Tower year, you are having a Chariot year.
The way to check for this is to do the math:
month of birth + day of birth + year in question = sum
Take the sum and reduce to a number between 1 and 21 (The Tarot Major arcana has 21 cards).
Don’t stress over the calculations.
If you have questions or want me to calculate your 2024 card, contact me.
Were any of the years listed above memorable years for you? Were they pivotal in some way? Did you get married, move, give birth, start something, end something?
If nothing really stands out then maybe 2024 will be one of those filler years or something similar.
Looking back at the years listed, it seems that these years for me were years after a pivot. It was the pushing forward after the dust settled.
Can you find a thread that runs through the years for you?
List of Year Cards
Now that you’ve had time to reflect on your 2024 year card and its other appearances in your life, here’s a brief list of possible lessons that each year card could bring. This is from Mary K. Greer’s Tarot for Yourself (out of print). The same material is currently covered in Who are You in the Tarot?
- Magician – focused attention. Mind over matter. mental endeavors.
- High Priestess – intuitive or psychic development. Self nurturing.
- The Empress – Creativity, pregnancy, nurturing others. Pleasure and beautiful things.
- The Emperor – Beginning new things, building, be authoritative, establishing groundwork.
- The Hierophant – Teaching and learning, working within “the system”.
- The Lovers – Relationships. Tough choices.
- The Chariot – Proving yourself, moving, travel, taking care of yourself and others.
- Strength – Desire for creativity, strong passions, need for strength and endurance.
- The Hermit – Solitude, introspection, completing a project.
- Wheel of Fortune – Major change, luck, fame and fortune.
- Justice – financial considerations, partnerships, contracts, working on balance with others.
- Hanged Man – Handling your hang ups, self-sacrifice.
- Death – Letting go of something, rebirth and regeneration
- Temperance – Developing health and healing practices, testing and trying out your beliefs, creative combinations
- The Devil – Power struggles, manipulation, keeping a sense of humor
- The Tower – cleansing, anger, tearing down old structures
- The Star – recognition for achievement, idealism
- The Moon – imagination and dreamwork, karmic relationships
- The Sun – Achievement of goals, developing self worth
- Judgement – Dealing with being judged or criticized, breakthrough to new beliefs
- The World – Learning to dance on your limitations, working within limitation
What do you hope 2024 will bring? Does it look like it’s “in the cards” for you? If it doesn’t, is there another project or goal that seems to be better aligned?