Hello, my name is Aria, and I am a sex educator. When I first became a sex educator five years ago, I thought I'd just stumbled upon a unique part-time job selling sex toys and teaching blowjob workshops. In fact, I'd opened a portal to a sensual and spiritual awakening that shifted the course of my life. The further I wandered beyond that threshold, the more I came to realize how intimately those two worlds were linked. I noticed that my work as a pleasure advocate kept putting me in the same rooms as astrologers and tarot readers, and their disciplines began to beckon to me.
Now back to the cards for a minute. Even if you don't read tarot yourself, you can still derive meaning from their imagery and symbolism, and draw connections to different parts of your experience. The Major Arcana, the subset of cards that birth cards are derived from, is the life journey of the Fool, the first card and central character. This journey involves many lessons and teachers, and of those, a chosen few have particular influence over your own life path.
Those are your birth cards, which you can calculate in the following ways: There's a quick birth card calculator here, or you can use the following formula: First, add up your birth day + month + year (separated into two double numbers), and then add together the two digits from the number you get.
For example, using Oct. 25, 1993, as a birth date, 10 + 25 + 19 + 93 = 147, and 14 + 7 = 21. The sum corresponds with the numbers of the Major Arcana, so 21 represents the World card. If you ever get a sum of 22, your first birth card is the Fool. Next, reduce this number to get your second birth card: 2 + 1 = 3, so the Empress would be your second birth card. Once you've got your two (or three) cards, check this list! You'll learn a bit about their meaning, plus the sex toy I've imagined as matching them.