How to Read Your Birth Chart with Tarot Cards — Ohm Terra

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We have previously discussed using your zodiac sign and parts of your astrology natal chart to help discover more about yourself by connecting them with tarot cards. If you missed those posts, go check them out at these links:

In linking tarot and astrology, you should have found your natal birth chart online with all of your planetary placements. If not, head over to Café Astrology or google free natal birth charts to get a copy. You will need you birth time and location for the greatest accuracy.

Once you have your birth chart, grab your tarot deck. This is an in depth spread to look at your natal chart using the tarot cards.

This works great for people who are not super familiar with astrology, but know tarot better.

In order to make this spread easier for you, you will need to grab the worksheets below and 6 sticks or dividers of sorts. They should be about 3 feet long, so string or yarn may be your best bet. You could even use Christmas ribbon if you can get it to lay flat. If you find that you only have access to shorter dividers, then you can use 12 of them. These dividers will be the design of the tarot spread layout, where you lay your cards. The layout is shown below.

Step 1: Fill out the worksheets. These will make it easier for you to lay out the cards in the correct pattern without having to go back and forth for each card.

Step 2: Create the horoscope wheel like the one below and lay out the tarot cards according to your worksheets. When laying out the cards in their Houses, House 1 is always your ascendant (ASC or rising) sign. From there, you number the houses in numerical order clockwise around the wheel.

TIP: In the picture above, I used red christmas ribbon, which I straightened the best that I could using my fingernail. I used the same method that my mom taught me to run my fingernail along the ribbon to make it curl, but I pulled it straight instead. When it still wouldn't lay perfectly stright, I used stones and crystals that I had on the ends to hold them down. The Amethyst in the middle is to hold everything in place. 

When you look at the wheel you have created in front of you, there are a few different types of cards:

Planetary cards tell you how the energy manifests

Zodiac signs tell you how those energies show up and behave

Houses which tell you where in your life those energies appear.

In doing this spread I like to take each chart separately and then as a whole. It seems to make it a little less confusing. The cards that you will lay out are from Table 1: The Zodiac Cards.

The cards that are represented by the signs of the zodiac tell you how the energies of the planetary cards manifest. At the same time, when combined with the House, they can tell you about how the archetype of the associated tarot card is expressed in your life.

These cards will tell you that the energy of the tarot card represented by the sign (i.e The Emperor is represented by Aries) shows up in the House part of your life. For example, my Emperor (Aries) is in House 7, which is represented by Justice and corresponds to partnerships, legal matters, and cooperation. This can be read in a few different ways:

My Emperor energy shows up in the Justice aspects of my life

I enjoy being in control in areas of my life relating to partnerships and cooperation

I require stability in legal matters and partnerships.