Which Tarot Card Rules Your Star Sign?
Every zodiac sign carries one Major Arcana card, plus three numbered cards and a court card. Here is the full map, where it comes from, and how old it actually is.
Ten questions, no email
Which tarot card are you?
Most quizzes like this run on a scoring table somebody made up. This one uses the deck's own structure: it works out your element and your mode, those two give a temperament, and the temperament has a trump. The whole method is on the page.
The ten cards this quiz will never give you
Only twelve of the twenty-two majors carry a zodiac sign. The other ten are planetary, so no temperament maps to them and they are not on the table: The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man, The Tower, The Sun, Judgement and The World.
A quiz that could return all twenty-two would be using invented weights rather than the deck’s structure. We would rather have a smaller honest mechanism than a bigger opaque one. That reasoning is set out on the editorial policy page.
The system behind the quiz
Where the sign attributions come from, and the other way people get a card of their own.
What Is a Tarot Birth Card? The Maths, Shown
Add your birth date up and reduce it, and you land on one or more Major Arcana. Here is the arithmetic in full, why people get different numbers of cards, and how old the idea is.
Major vs Minor Arcana: What's the Difference?
The 22 majors are the themes you do not choose. The 56 minors are daily life. What each half does, and what it means when one dominates a reading.
About the quiz
Straight answers, without the mystique.
It measures two things: your element (fire, water, air or earth) and your mode (cardinal, fixed or mutable). Four elements times three modes is twelve combinations, and those twelve are the twelve zodiac signs. Each sign carries one Major Arcana card in the Golden Dawn system, and that card is your result. Nothing is hidden: the tally is printed with the answer.
Because only twelve of the twenty-two majors carry a zodiac sign. The other ten are planetary, and no temperament maps to them, so this quiz will never return one. A quiz that could return all twenty-two would be using a scoring table somebody invented rather than the deck's own structure.
Only if your answers happen to describe your sign, and plenty of people's do not. This measures how you answered ten questions today, not your birth date. If you want the card your birthday reduces to, that is the birth card calculator, and it is a different thing entirely.
It is a good way into the Major Arcana and a poor way to learn about yourself. Ten questions cannot know you. What it can honestly do is hand you one archetype to read properly, which is more use than a keyword list.
For reflection and entertainment. Not medical, legal, or financial advice.