The Tarot not only serves to help us make decisions or suggest meaning to our experiences but also reveals the map of our life. Each of the arcana represents a period of four years. Find yours and recognize its message.
Ruled by number 1: The Magician
From 0 to 4 years: What does the letter mean? Beginning and enthusiasm because life is lived feeling that the facts coincide with one’s own illusions. Joy, beginnings that excite.
It is a stage marked by the principles: of speaking, walking, and manifesting the “I”. Exaltation and the impulse to discover oneself prevail. Self-referential consciousness: “One is the world”.
Ruled by number 2: The Popess
From 4 to 8 years: What does the letter mean? The presence of feminine and family energy protects and exacerbates feelings beyond rational logic, and suggests trusting intuition and giving time to processes.
It is a period of recognition of affective environments in which the family matrix is discovered, it is understood that “prior” to the birth itself, the others already existed. The emotional is put to the test at the beginning of schooling.
Ruled by the number 3: The Empress
From 8 to 12 years: What does the letter mean? Assessment of tastes and situations that give pleasure. Bodily enjoyment and confidence in one’s own creativity are exacerbated.
Pre-adolescence. It is the stage of discriminating from the family and beginning to develop one’s own tastes. There is an awakening of the body that suggests impending sexuality.
Ruled by the number 4: The Emperor
From 12 to 16 years: What does the letter mean? Assessment of the structure, order, safe method, and responsibility.
It is a period in which you still have to respond to solid and clear rules, you still go to school and you are under parental rules. The desire for independence arises and obedience or rebellion to accept the guidelines of family or school authorities is revealed.
Ruled by number 5: The Pope
From 16 to 20 years: What does the letter mean? Crisis of what was believed to be safe, the need to exceed what was prescribed, fear of growing up. The appearance of a new power that frightens; own power, money, and sex.
Period to strengthen and open up to the world beyond the family. Facing one’s own power, vocational crisis, initiation, and fears in economic, relationship, and sexual areas.
Ruled by the number 6: The Lovers
From 20 to 24 years: What does the letter mean? It symbolizes the need to open your mind, accept your own contradictions, not rush to decide, tolerate ambivalence, and play with options.
It is a period of opening, to be encouraged to investigate and learn about new options. Opportunity to play with the diversities of life, fall in love and explore, and venture into a new life.
Ruled by number 7: The Chariot
From 24 to 28 years: What does the letter mean? It announces the need to take risks, to be brave to independently face what is being asked, personal courage, and power to start a more autonomous path.
It is a time of independence. It will be necessary to make decisions even if they imply risks: becoming independent, living alone or with a partner, projecting one’s own family and children, assuming economic independence, and stopping waiting for parents to solve what one cannot reach.
Ruled by No. 8: Justice
From 28 to 32 years: What does the letter mean? It announces a rearrangement of past excesses to continue more mature and light. He proposes to take charge and purify the egoic exuberances.
These are times of maximum effort and work and family demands. The dream may seem demanding and it is avoided or we discover that we have achieved the dream, but it is still required or it does not seem to be enough, forcing us to re-evaluate desires and fantasies.
Ruled by the number 9: The Hermit
From 32 to 36 years: What does the letter mean? It announces the need for a deeper search, to go towards the essential to rediscover the spiritual being that inhabits us. Need for isolation and introspection.
In the period of solitude, the pairs are the same as one, sustaining family and work achievements, the beginning of a more transcendent, spiritual, or therapeutic search.
Ruled by number 10: The Wheel
From 36 to 40 years: What does the letter mean? It announces a change, a 180-degree turn with new and better beginnings. Growth and expansion.
It is an age associated with great changes: “Life begins at 40”, an awareness of finiteness that begins a new cycle where one goes in search of what has not yet been achieved, both in love and in the profession. The flip flop is “thrown away” or the possibility of starting genuine and creative projects arises.
Ruled by the number 11: Strength
From 40 to 44 years: What does the letter mean? It announces standing up with the many personal tools that have been achieved. Emotional maturity together with a vital body suggest good tools to act.
It is a period of commitment to what was chosen in the previous stage, body power, and great maturity to take charge of one’s own happiness by stopping blaming others.
Ruled by the number 12: The Hanged Man
From 44 to 48 years: What does the letter mean? In detention, things do not happen as expected, time for sacrifice or sacro-office. A new perception of life, where the body and ego will no longer be predominant.
It is a period of change of consciousness, the same things are no longer desired. Wisdom and compassion are valued, we run from the need to be the most beautiful or the most successful. If he resists, the feeling of social non-valuation begins, the fight against the impending bodily decay.
Ruled by the number 13: Death
From 48 to 52 years: What does the letter mean? Announce changes with pain, ask to work on detachment, and let go.
It is a period where whoever they thought they were dies, the time dedicated to their own children is minimized and the parents themselves begin to leave. Time of duels and radical changes in habits and daily occupations. It is usually synchronous with menopause in women.
Ruled by the number 14: Temperance
From 52 to 56 years: What does the letter mean? Resurrection is the ability to perceive and trust in a sacred order beyond one’s own will. Surrender to designs that surpass those of your own ego.
It is a period of commitments from the heart, the need to alleviate social or family approval to be faithful to what gives genuine joy. Activities and bonds that grant liberation and genuine enjoyment begin to be prioritized: the first grandchildren usually appear.
Ruled by the number 15: The Devil
From 56 to 60 years: What does the letter mean? Encounter with the shadow itself. Exacerbation of fears about one’s own economic and vital survival. Become aware of material handling.
It is a period to discover what is being received from life. The presence (or absence) of social recognition and economic achievements are proof of the –good or bad- management of one’s own power. Fears and contradictions are exacerbated to let go of control and leadership.
Ruled by the number 16: The Tower
60 to 64 years: What does the letter mean? Announces a liberating blow, the more attachment and fear the more it destroys, the more one lets go and trusts, the more it frees.
It is time to encourage yourself to let go of responsibilities and work and/or family demands. It is opportune to recycle the energy dedicated to being parents or to having social successes, to detach from the effort of what has been achieved, and to free oneself towards genuine, creative, and liberating projects.
Ruled by the number 17: The Star
From 64 to 68 years: What does the letter mean? Detachment from material and affective possessiveness. Ability to deliver and fluency. Importance of friends and groups because they bring creativity.
Time to share achievements, to trust others to recreate their own in a more creative way, both in the family and at work. Letting go of control so that personal creativity spreads to others and improves one’s own experience.
Ruled by the number 18: The Moon
From 68 to 72 years: What does the letter mean? Getting in touch with the matrix, the human matrix that conditions its bewitching fears, time to recognize them and free oneself or get stuck in one’s own world of apprehensions.
A period where social recognition or family requirements to face ourselves is usually minimized. It is necessary to abandon the fear of loss, overcome the fantasy of control or denial of death, the danger of being trapped in the panic of old age, wisdom, and detachment, or suffering from a true emotional ghost train.
Ruled by the number 19: The Sun
From 72 to 76 years: What does the letter mean? Vitality and joy, life is to be lived, confidence and creativity at all times.
If the previous letter was passed, this period of life proposes to enjoy and not make problems because everything has already been done. It is time to understand a new spiritual path that prioritizes the awareness of the here and now.
Ruled by the number 20: Judgment
From 76 to 80 years: What does the letter mean? He announces a time of commitment, of new awareness, he asks to wake up and “to stop being dead while alive.”
This period can be lived with true wisdom that prioritizes the legacy that will be left to others. Becoming aware that one is no longer so significant, the important thing is in the good distribution towards the future, in the good sowing of seeds that continue with one’s own economic or ideological legacy. Or, on the contrary, being “dead in life”, feeling that nobody cares.
Ruled by the number 21: The World
80 to 84 years: What does the letter mean? It announces a great capacity to take advantage of everything that exists here and now.
It is the period in which more than ever the phrase “do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today” is appropriate. Take advantage of each present possibility because it is not known how much future there will be.
The Tarot suggests that at this age you should have reached a consciousness that allows you to live as you should have always lived: the present is all there is. Overcome past conditioning and fears and not postpone the future.