Zodiac tarot card calculator

How the zodiac tarot card calculator works

The calculator works in three steps, using the Golden Dawn system that most modern decks follow:

1. Your birthday gives your Sun sign, using the usual date ranges in the table below.
2. Your sign gives two Major Arcana cards: the card for the sign itself and the card for its traditional ruling planet.
3. Your birthday also falls in one of the sign's three decans, ten-day slices that each have a numbered Minor Arcana card from 2 to 10.

Worked example: March 15 falls in Pisces (February 19 to March 20), so the sign card is The Moon. Pisces is ruled by Jupiter, whose card is the Wheel of Fortune. March 15 sits in the third Pisces decan (March 11 to 20), ruled by Mars, which gives the Ten of Cups.

Zodiac dates and tarot cards

Tap a sign for its full page, or see all twelve side by side on the zodiac tarot cards page.

Born on the cusp?

The dates above are averages. The Sun moves into a new sign on a slightly different day each year, and the time of day matters too, so a birthday within a day or two of a change can belong to either sign. Aries is the clearest case: in most recent years the Sun has entered Aries on March 20, not March 21.

If your birthday is within two days of a sign change, the calculator flags it and shows the cards for the neighboring sign as well. To settle it, look up your Sun sign in a birth chart made with your birth year, time and place. Until then, read both sets of cards and notice which one sounds like you.

Reading your result: sign, planet and decan

Your sign card describes the style of your Sun sign: how you go about things. Your planet card is the force behind it. Your decan card narrows it down to the ten days you were born in, so two people of the same sign can get a different third card.

Take a Libra born on October 5. Justice gives the sign's sense of fairness and balance. The Empress, for Venus, adds warmth and a love of beauty. The decan card is the Three of Swords, Saturn in Libra: the hurt that comes when harmony meets a hard limit. Read together, that is a person who wants things fair and lovely, and whose growth comes from facing the moments when they can't be.

Why each sign got its card, plus the element and court cards for every sign, is explained in zodiac signs and tarot cards. The dates for all 36 decans are in the tarot timing chart.