Your life path number comes from numerology: add up every digit of your birth date and keep reducing to a single digit (the master numbers 11, 22 and 33 are kept as they are). Each number corresponds to a Major Arcana card.
For example, May 17, 1990: 1+9+9+0+5+1+7 = 32, then 3+2 = 5, so the life path number is 5.
Its tarot card: The Magician
Life path 1 carries the energy of beginnings: full of ideas, quick to act, used to making your own call. You are at your best as the first one through the door.
Strengths Independent, decisive, a natural leader
Lesson Impatience, and not always hearing others out
Its tarot card: The High Priestess
Life path 2 is sensitive and perceptive, reading what others leave unsaid. Your strength lies in cooperation, listening and intuition.
Strengths Caring, cooperative, intuitive
Lesson Worrying too much about others' opinions; finding it hard to say no
Its tarot card: The Empress
Life path 3 is creative and magnetic, moving people with words, art or humour. You make the room feel lighter.
Strengths Creative, optimistic, expressive
Lesson Scattered focus; starting more than you finish
Its tarot card: The Emperor
Life path 4 is steady and reliable, believing in one step at a time. You turn chaos into order and ideas into something you can touch.
Strengths Practical, organised, trustworthy
Lesson Stubbornness and a fear of change
Its tarot card: The Hierophant
Life path 5 craves freedom and novelty: travel, change, new experiences. Your lesson is balancing freedom with commitment.
Strengths Adaptable, curious, full of energy
Lesson Restlessness and short-lived enthusiasms
Its tarot card: The Lovers
Life path 6 values family and relationships and naturally cares for others. You make people feel safe and are often the friend everyone confides in.
Strengths Responsible, warm, devoted
Lesson Giving so much that you forget yourself
Its tarot card: The Chariot
Life path 7 asks why behind everything and needs solitude to think. Your intuition and insight often run ahead of everyone else's.
Strengths Deep, insightful, analytical
Lesson Distance and suspicion; slow to open up
Its tarot card: Strength
Life path 8 is ambitious and resilient, good with resources and pressure. Your lesson is to use power to build rather than to control.
Strengths Resilient, driven, good at managing
Lesson Measuring everything by success and control
Its tarot card: The Hermit
Life path 9 holds the wider world in mind, empathetic and ready to give for an ideal. Life keeps teaching you to let go and to give freely.
Strengths Generous, empathetic, idealistic
Lesson Holding on to the past; easily disappointed
Its tarot card: Justice
11 is a master number: the sensitivity of 2 with an added spark of inspiration and purpose. You feel what others miss and often light the way for them.
Strengths Strong intuition, inspiring presence
Lesson Emotional swings and anxiety
Its tarot card: The Fool
22 is a master number, joining the steadiness of 4 to a far-reaching vision. You can turn dreams that look impossible into reality, brick by brick.
Strengths Vision and execution together
Lesson Demanding too much of yourself
Its tarot card: The Empress
33 is a master number, widening the care of 6 to many people. You have a natural healing touch that helps others believe in themselves again.
Strengths Selfless, compassionate, uplifting
Lesson Carrying too much for others
Numbers are paired with cards following common tarot numerology, for entertainment only.