Which Tarot Card Are You?

Answer ten quick questions to find out which of the 22 Major Arcana cards matches your personality right now. Your result comes with a short profile, your strengths and the habit to watch, plus a runner-up card.

There are no right answers. Go with your first instinct rather than the answer you think you should give: the quiz only works if you’re honest with it.

How the quiz works

Each answer leans towards two or three of the Major Arcana, the 22 cards that stand for life’s big themes, from The Fool to The World. Your card is the one your answers pointed to most often, and your second card is the runner-up. Many people find the second card says as much about them as the first.

This is a personality quiz for fun and reflection, not a psychological test, and your card can change as your life does. If you want a card that stays with you for life, work out your tarot birth cards from your date of birth instead.

The 22 personality cards

Here’s what each card says about you as a person. Every card links to its full meaning, including what it means upright, reversed and in love.

The Fool: the free spirit

You say yes first and work out the details on the way. New places, new people and fresh starts light you up, and you trust that things will work out, which often helps them do exactly that. Friends love your openness and your refusal to turn cynical. Watch out for leaping so often that nothing gets finished, or for mistaking restlessness for freedom.

Full meaning of The Fool · The Fool as advice

The Magician: the maker

You look at a pile of odds and ends and see what it could become. You’re resourceful, quick and persuasive, and once you’ve decided something should happen you usually find a way to make it happen. People come to you when they need an idea turned into a plan. Watch out for spreading yourself across too many projects, or talking people round when you should be listening.

Full meaning of The Magician · The Magician as advice

The High Priestess: the quiet knower

You notice what other people miss: the pause before an answer, the mood in a room. You trust your gut, keep a rich inner life and share it with very few people, which makes you the friend others confide in. You don’t need to explain everything you know. Watch out for keeping so much to yourself that no one can reach you, or going silent when a conversation would help.

Full meaning of The High Priestess · The High Priestess as advice

The Empress: the nurturer

You make people feel looked after. Good food, soft light, a garden, a creative project: you know how to make things grow and how to enjoy them once they do. Your warmth is generous and very physical, from hugs to home-cooked meals. Watch out for giving until you’re empty, or looking after everyone except yourself. Rest counts as care too.

Full meaning of The Empress · The Empress as advice

The Emperor: the builder

You bring order to chaos. You like a plan, a structure and a clear line of responsibility, and in a crisis you’re the one who steps forward and takes charge. People feel safe around you because you keep your word. Watch out for needing to control what can’t be controlled, or treating a softer approach as weakness.

Full meaning of The Emperor · The Emperor as advice

The Hierophant: the keeper of wisdom

You value what has lasted: traditions, good teachers, rituals and the communities that hold them. You love learning something properly and passing it on, and people trust your advice because it rests on more than a passing mood. Watch out for following rules out of habit, or dismissing ideas simply because they’re new.

Full meaning of The Hierophant · The Hierophant as advice

The Lovers: the heart-led chooser

Your life runs on your values and your relationships. You choose with your heart, you care a great deal about harmony, and you’d rather have one true connection than a crowd of acquaintances. When something matters to you, you commit to it fully. Watch out for losing yourself in other people, or putting off hard choices because you want everyone to be happy.

Full meaning of The Lovers · The Lovers as advice

The Chariot: the driven one

Give you a goal and you’ll get there. You’re determined, competitive in the best sense and good at holding conflicting pressures together long enough to move forward. Other people find your momentum catching. Watch out for pushing so hard that you forget why you started, or treating every setback as a fight you have to win.

Full meaning of The Chariot · The Chariot as advice

Strength: the gentle lion

Your strength is the quiet kind. You stay calm when others panic, you’re patient with difficult people, and you tame problems with kindness rather than force. People often underestimate you, then find out how much you can carry. Watch out for swallowing your own anger for too long, or being so understanding that others walk all over you.

Full meaning of Strength · Strength as advice

The Hermit: the seeker

You need time alone the way other people need company. You think deeply, ask big questions and would rather understand one thing well than skim a hundred. When you do share what you’ve found, people listen. Watch out for withdrawing so far that you become lonely, or waiting until you have every answer before you act.

Full meaning of The Hermit · The Hermit as advice

Wheel of Fortune: the go-with-the-flow optimist

You roll with change better than most. When plans fall through you’re already looking for the next opening, and you have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. You see life in cycles, which keeps you steady in the low points. Watch out for leaving everything to fate, or drifting when a decision is yours to make.

Full meaning of Wheel of Fortune · Wheel of Fortune as advice

Justice: the fair mind

You can’t let an unfairness slide. You weigh both sides, tell the truth when it’s awkward and hold yourself to the same standards you expect from others. People trust you to be straight with them. Watch out for judging people, yourself included, more harshly than a situation deserves, or needing every argument settled before you can rest.

Full meaning of Justice · Justice as advice

The Hanged Man: the one who sees it differently

You’re comfortable pausing while everyone else rushes. You look at problems from strange angles and often find the answer by letting go of the obvious one. You’ll give something up if it means seeing the bigger picture. Watch out for staying in limbo long after the pause has done its job, or sacrificing more than you need to.

Full meaning of The Hanged Man · The Hanged Man as advice

Death: the reinventor

You know when something is over, and you’re brave enough to end it. You may well have reinvented yourself more than once, and you understand that letting go makes room for something new. People come to you when their own lives are changing. Watch out for burning bridges too quickly, or ending things just for the relief of a fresh start.

Full meaning of Death · Death as advice

Temperance: the peacemaker

You find the middle way. You’re good at blending people, ideas and moods that don’t obviously mix, and your patient presence calms a room. You rarely go to extremes. Watch out for keeping the peace at the cost of saying what you really think, or being so moderate that you never let yourself want anything wildly.

Full meaning of Temperance · Temperance as advice

The Devil: the magnetic rebel

You’re honest about what you want, and you enjoy pleasure without apology. You have a magnetic, slightly wicked charm, forbidden things interest you, and very little shocks you. Ambition doesn’t embarrass you either. Watch out for habits that start as fun and turn into chains, or staying in something long after it stopped being good for you.

Full meaning of The Devil · The Devil as advice

The Tower: the truth-teller

You can’t live with a lie, even a comfortable one. You’re the person who points out that the emperor has no clothes, shakes up stale situations and would rather tear something down than keep patching it. Change tends to follow you. Watch out for stirring up chaos just to feel alive, or wrecking something that only needed repair.

Full meaning of The Tower · The Tower as advice

The Star: the healer

You carry hope for people when they can’t carry it themselves. You’re gentle, generous and a little idealistic, and you have a calm way of making others believe things can get better. Creative work often comes naturally to you. Watch out for giving away more of yourself than you can spare, or hiding your own needs behind your care for others.

Full meaning of The Star · The Star as advice

The Moon: the dreamer

You live close to your imagination. Dreams, symbols, moods and hunches are real information to you, and you’re at ease with mystery in a way that unsettles more literal people. You’re often creative and highly sensitive. Watch out for letting fears grow bigger in the dark than they are in daylight, or avoiding clear answers because the fog feels safer.

Full meaning of The Moon · The Moon as advice

The Sun: the bright spark

You bring warmth wherever you go. You’re open, playful and confident, you enjoy life out loud, and people feel better simply for being around you. You tend to see the best in situations and in others. Watch out for brushing off real problems with positivity, or needing to be the centre of attention to feel good.

Full meaning of The Sun · The Sun as advice

Judgement: the one with a calling

You’re guided by a sense of purpose. You look honestly at your own life, you learn from your mistakes, and when you hear the call to change direction you answer it. You believe in second chances, for yourself and for others. Watch out for judging yourself too harshly, or waiting for a sign when you already know what to do.

Full meaning of Judgement · Judgement as advice

The World: the well-rounded soul

You like to see things through. You’re curious about everything, from travel and other cultures to the whole picture of a problem, and you bring different parts of life together with ease. People see you as someone who has it together. Watch out for chasing the next achievement before you’ve enjoyed this one, or struggling to begin again once a chapter closes.

Full meaning of The World · The World as advice

Quiz card, birth card or zodiac card?

Tarot has several ways of pairing a person with a card, and they answer different questions:

• Your quiz card reflects how you think and act at the moment. Take the quiz again in a year and it may change.
• Your birth cards are fixed by your date of birth and describe lifelong lessons. The birth card calculator works them out for you.
• Your zodiac card is the Major Arcana card linked to your star sign, such as The Emperor for Aries. The zodiac tarot cards guide lists all twelve.

It’s interesting when they disagree. Someone with Death as a quiz card and The Empress as a birth card might be going through a period of change that sits a little outside their usual nurturing nature.

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