Birthday number quiz: your day and its arcanum

This quiz checks how the birthday number is worked out and how to link it to the tarot. In numerology the birthday number is the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit. Born on the 25th? Then 2 + 5 = 7. Unlike the full date, the month and year play no part here.

Two-digit days are reduced by adding their digits. The 29th gives 11, then 2. Some schools keep 11 and 22 as master numbers while others reduce everything to one digit, so books show both versions.

Digits one to nine are easy to read through the Major Arcana with the same numbers: 1 is The Magician, 2 The High Priestess and so on up to 9, The Hermit. That turns the number into an image you can think with: The Chariot for seven speaks of will and momentum, The Emperor for four of order and support.

Do not mix this up with Tayna's own calculations. Personality and soul cards come from the full birth date, and the year card adds your day and month to the current year. The birthday number is a separate, simpler key, best compared with Tayna's cards as a different method.

Every number like this is shared by everyone born on the same day, so it describes a tendency and a theme, never the events of a life.

Tayna calls your birthday a personal New Year. There is a three-card spread for it: what leaves with the year behind you, what arrives, and the lesson the new year of life brings. The third card is the main theme life will keep bringing you back to until the next birthday.

You can use both tools together: work out your birthday number, then on the day itself lay the spread and see how the drawn cards answer that digit. Each run of this quiz takes three random questions from eight, and the explanation appears right after each answer.