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 number between 1 and 22 - this will land you in one of the “Major” tarot cards. If the sum exceeds 22, reduce it again to a number between 1 and 22 by adding the digits once more. This final number corresponds to your birth card in the tarot deck.
Here’s a nifty calculator to help you with the maths:
Click on the image above or here to use this calculator to easily find your own Cacio e Pepe Birth Card. Make sure you make a copy of the spreadsheet before trying to edit!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Main Points: Change, destiny, luck, cycles, opportunities, unexpected events.
Significance as Birth Card: Your life's wheel sometimes steers you to unexpected locations. And in turn, it asks you to surrender to the journey by meeting those moments with vulnerable optimism and a centered presence. Embrace change with steady focus on what is right in front of you.
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Main Points: Observation for the sake of fairness, balance, truth, justice and integrity.
Significance as Birth Card: This lifetime invites you to bear witness to the asymmetries of the world around you. Justice can only be integrated once the truth is sought. Your mission is to use clear sightedness to collect the full story around you.
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Main Points: Surrender, patience, perspective, spiritual growth.
Significance as Birth Card: Your journey invites you to a masterclass with the theme of letting go. Surrendering with patience and faith in this process is what leads to a priceless shift in perspective that allows you to evolve in ways you may have never dreamed possible.
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Main Points: Transformation, endings, change, renewal, rebirth, letting go.
Significance as Birth Card: Your life is marked by the process of transformation. In that precious space between an ending and a new beginning lies your greatest potential: liberation.
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Main Points: Balance, moderation, harmony, faith, integration, healing.
Significance as Birth Card: Your life asks you to consider if the divine is real. By simply acknowledging that the unseen world may possibly have a powerful influence over your life, you can invite balance, harmony and healing into your lived experience.
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Main Points: Triumph over temptation, materialism, addiction, limitations and ego.
Significance as Birth Card: You are invited into delicious liberation and the untold beauty of inner freedom through the valiant confrontation of temptation, assumed limitations and the loud boom of your ego’s voice.
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Main Points: Profound renewal as a result of upheaval, sudden change, revelation, destruction, liberation.
Significance as Birth Card: Everyone experiences chaotic upheavals in life, but yours specifically are meant to reveal something sweetly profound beneath the rubble.
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Main Points: Hope, inspiration, guidance, optimism, spirituality, renewal, healing.
Significance as Birth Card: If you let it, your journey can be supported by immense hope, inspiration, and optimism illuminating your path, renewing your spirit and healing your hurts.
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Main Points: Meeting illusions, confusions and fears with intuition, the subconscious, and emotional depth.
Significance as Birth Card: Your life's mysteries unravel in dark and quiet places. You’re asked to calmly sit with the confusing and illusive material of life long enough to allow your fears to subside so that your emotional intelligence and intuitive channel can reveal deep insights.
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Main Points: Clarity, vitality, beginnings, innocence, realizations.
Significance as Birth Card: Your life invites you to focus on the places where light illuminates and makes clear what may have been previously hidden. Radiant energy is available to you so that you can make the most of these illuminations, whether they are welcome or jarring. You have the power to build upon the ah-ha moments of life.
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Main Points: Rebirth, awakening, redemption, evaluation, transformation, renewal, acceptance.
Significance as Birth Card: Your life is marked by the themes of maturation through rebirth, awakening, and transformation, urging you to embrace your true self and seek renewal, honesty and integrity.
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Main Points: Completion, fulfillment, integration, achievement, wholeness, lessons learned.
Significance as Birth Card: You are invited to a lifetime dedicated to the completion of lessons. Feelings of fulfillment, and achievement are waiting on the other side of life’s greatest milestones. Embracing the interconnectedness of life is
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Main Points: New beginnings, spontaneity, innocence, adventure, risk-taking, potential.
Significance as Birth Card: In life we are called again and again to start over. Your journey presents like a collection of beginnings and asks you to greet it with a sense of openness and optimism, embracing new experiences and opportunities.
