WHAT’S YOUR BIRTH CARD?

One of the topics you’ll hear Team Cacio talk about quite a bit is our ‘birth cards.’ We love our birth cards so much we’ve got them hanging on our (and other people’s) walls. When you ask what a birth card is, you may come across a number of explanations. We’re going to break down what these cards really mean and how they work.

First things first, birth cards are based on the concept of numerology which dates back thousands of years, from having ancient roots in the Greek system of isopsephy to the Hebrew system of gematria. While the term numerology might be relatively modern, the core beliefs and practices can be traced back several millennia. The practice finds hidden numerical patterns and symbolic meanings behind dates, words, names and events, with the belief that those numbers influence people’s characteristics and life events in mystical or predictive ways. Our specific birth card knowledge largely hails from Mary K. Greer’s work on the topic.

Calculating Your Cacio e Pepe Tarot Birth Card

To determine your Cacio e Pepe Tarot birth card, add the day, month and year of your birth together, see the examples below. Keep adding the digits until you get a single number between 1 and 9 - this will land you in one of the “Major” tarot cards. If the sum exceeds 9, such as 26, reduce it again by adding the digits once more, in this instance you would get an 8. This final number corresponds to your birth card in the tarot deck. 

Head to our nifty calculator to help you with the maths:

Understanding and Integrating Your Birth Card

Once you've identified your tarot birth card, reflect on its meaning and how it resonates with your life. Think of your birth card as a guiding archetype that illuminates key aspects of your personality, strengths, challenges, and life's journey. Integrating the meaning of your birth card into your life may lead to a deeper sense of self-awareness. Tarot birth cards offer valuable insights, but how you apply them is ultimately a personal journey of growth and discovery.

• 1 - Cheese Plate (The Magician)

  • Main Points: Manifestation, power, potential, creativity, resourcefulness, action.

  • Significance as Birth Card: You have access in this life to the art of magick. Manifesting desires, showcasing the power of creativity, resourcefulness and decisive action are all important focuses.
    

• 2 - Oyster (The High Priestess)

  • Main Points: Intuition, mystery, inner knowledge, wisdom, subconscious, spirituality.

  • Significance as Birth Card: Your intuition is spotlit in this lifetime.  As deep and mysterious as the ocean, offering pearls of inner knowledge and spiritual wisdom, your channel is capable of guiding you through life's flavors with profound insights.

• 3 - Yogurt (The Empress)

  • Main Points: Abundance, fertility, creativity, nurturing, beauty, sensuality, receiving.

  • Significance as Birth Card: You have the potential to be a nurturer, fostering abundance, creativity, and the beauty of growth and sensuality in all aspects of life.
    

• 4 - Steak (The Emperor)

  • Main Points: Structure, leadership, control, stability, generosity.

  • Significance as Birth Card: Your leadership ability can be hearty and robust, providing a structured foundation that can empower you to establish stability and achieve your goals.

• 5 - Ginger (The Hierophant)

  • Main Points: Guidance, education, knowledge, spirituality, morality, belief systems.

  • Significance as Birth Card: You have the potential to embody the archetype of The Guide or The Teacher, even if just to yourself. Your life also asks you to wisely scrutinize the origins of what you believe in order to take the role of wisdom haver.

• 6 - Cacio e Pepe (The Lovers)

  • Main Points: Love, relationships, choices, harmony, partnerships, duality, polarity, reflecting.

  • Significance as Birth Card: Your journey is marked by choices, relationships, and the quest for harmony and balance. Your journey asks you to get comfortable at the crossroads of life and invites you to look within for your ultimate partner.

• 7 - Dumpling (The Chariot)

  • Main Points: Determination, willpower, victory, control, progress, travel.

  • Significance as Birth Card: Determination, willpower and drive are major themes in your life. It will be important to remember that the true achievements in life will happen in the growth cycles that begin after your greatest victories have taken place.

• 8 - Soufflé (Strength)

  • Main Points: Inner strength, self-confidence, courage, resilience, patience, compassion, self-control.

  • Significance as Birth Card: You have access to a combination of inner strength, resilience, and compassion that can enable you to conquer challenges with grace, courage and, most importantly, an open heart.

• 9 - Honey (The Hermit)

  • Main Points: Solitude, introspection, guidance, wisdom, inner searching, solitude.

  • Significance as Birth Card: Some of your deepest lessons in your life will take place in solitude and/or at a pace that may feel glacially slow. When you take advantage of the time and space made available to you, introspection and wisdom can lead to profound self-discovery and wisdom.