A big part of Cardology is the Yearly Forecast. Besides having a Birth and Ruling card, you have a new spread of cards each year on your birthday, called a Yearly Forecast.
I love the term Forecast because, just alike a weather forecast, it reveals the energies (literally) at play for your year- setting the mood, the potentials, the pitfalls, the opportunities and the gifts you will have going on. And, just like with the weather, you can ignore the forecast and put on a tank top and shorts on a icy day and go freeze your patootie off – or, you can dress in your soft lounge clothes, plan a day by the fire and get some much needed R&R. YOU CHOOSE! ?
But, isn’t it great to know?!?
It makes planning so much easier!
Here we are in September. I think of this month as the planning month. It’s the start of Fall and we can feel the shift in the weather, the mood and of course with school starting back up, we have new backpacks, notebook, pens and books and that has me all giddy (even though I don’t have young kids at home anymore!)
In this post, I want to cover one of the cards we each have in our yearly forecast – our Long Range card.
What does it tell us? How can we use it to plan?
Your Forecast Long Range card speaks to the main energy throughout your year.
(In a Forecast, a “year” is one birthday to the next. It begins on your birthday and goes until your next birthday, so anytime I refer to your year, that is what I am referring to.)
This card influences the events, people and thoughts/feelings you’ll encounter, so it is a big part of the plan towards whatever goals you have.
It’s like being given a weather forecast for your year -like looking in the Farmer’s Almanac and seeing what the upcoming winter will be.
The Long Range card is neither good nor bad—but a resource to use as you see how it fits in with your challenges and opportunities
Even when it is a card that might be seen as “hard” (such as a 9 card), because it is a Long Range card, its place as the main theme for your year keeps it as a neutral energy that you can work with to enhance and understand your year.
Remember that all of us experience and are (in some way, at some point) EVERY card in the deck. Therefore, when you have certain cards in play in your forecast, it is highlighting the part of you that IS that card. It is putting the spotlight on that energy within you in the area of its position in the Forecast.
The Long Range card presents you with a theme for your year.
Seeing your Long Range card as the all encompassing umbrella for your year — affecting each period and the other cards in prominent positions — adds knowledge for you to use in your planning.
Will the theme of your year be active or still?
Will it be creative, mental or spiritual?
Will it be focused on your health, relationships or money?
As an example, if your main goal is to increase the profit of your business and your Long Range card is the Queen of Hearts (the card of the Mother, romance and sex) then how can that help you?
If you are a Mother, your motherly duties might take a front seat therefore changing how you go about your goal.
Or, you might encounter a relationship that brings romance into your life, making you realize that even though you were focused on making money, you were also desiring intimacy and your priorities changed.
Or, the Queen of Hearts showed you that while working to make more money, you need to take the time for personal TLC and to nurture yourself.
Keeping your Long Range card in the forefront of your mind each day and seeing how your events and thoughts/feelings relate to it and your goal act as a big help.
The cards in your forecast aren’t some random draw by a human – they are the patterns, cycles and blueprints of the path you chose to walk in this life. The big, higher YOU set up a matrix of energy so you could play out the purpose of your life at this time. It all fits together.
Your cards won’t be unmatched with your goals, rather they can shed light on the best approach to your goals because of WHO YOU ARE and what you chose to have going on at this time in your life.
Just to confirm, is this similar or same as tarot card reading or is this a completely different subject? I always think both are the same?
Hi Ashley! I have a blog post here that covers this topic: https://createtheleap.com/cardology-vs-tarot-vs-oracle-cards/
While Cardology can be used for divination (what Tarot cards are used for), it is more of a blueprint system revealing who you are and the life path you are living.
There is a system called Cartomancy, in which the cards are read similair to tarot cards.
I have a question please. If a person you know has a birth card that is your long range card, then that person is part of the focus that year. Is this correct? I ask because a month and a half into my Mercury period this year, I met my biological mother whose birth card is my LR card. Thank you so much for all you do. Much gratitude and appreciation.
Pip
Hi Pip!
Yes, cards are also people and you’ll see them in your forecast. The energy of your LR card is the focus as well as the person…and sometimes that person is representing or bringing into your life that card’s energy. How exciting to have met her! Blessings to both of you!
Thank you so much. All my new siblings (5) are all cards in my Mercury period as well. I love this stuff!! Am trying to learn it so I can give to others. Again thank you
Wow! How cool! You’re very welcome! Let me know if there is anyting specific you are trying to understand at the moment. 🙂
Hi Ashley,
Hope you are having a nice weekend. Are you still offering courses on how to learn to do Cardiology?
Hi Pip! I am and will be offering a group online class sometime in August and I’ll email you the details! 🙂
Hola 🖖🏽
What is the formula for predicting these Long Range Cards? I just spent an hour looking at past Quadrations and have no clue how they are measured~
Any help/ explanation is appreciated! 🤙🏽
Cheers
W
Hi Wadimus! Do you have all the Grand Solar spread charts?
Hola Ashley 6♣️, I am a 7♣️/5♦️🌀🌀🌀
Yes I am using age charts from this source:
https://knowyourdestinycards.com/solar-quadration-charts/age-31/
09/17/1988
I know from another website widget that my current yearly card is 6♠️, and that next year (age 32) should be 9♠️…
… buuut I have no clue how these are determined, it’s driving my Clubs brain crazy! If you have any advice it is appreciated 🙌🏽🤘🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Boy, do I know how much that minds need to KNOW! 😉 OK, knowing you have charts to look at helps! Go to Age 4 chart. This is how you find the LR card for ages 28 to 34 as each year covers 7 years starting with age 1 (which covers ages 7 to 13). Find your birth card (7♣). Starting with the next card to the left, that is the LR card for the age of 28 (the 3♠) – for age 29, Q♦ etc., when you get to the end of the row (6♠), go down and to far right and continue. So, for age 32, the 9♠, age 33 is the 7♦, age 34, the 4♣. Next 7 years will be on Age 5 chart. 🙂
I seeee! Of course it’s all looped in from the opening scenes~
Thank you so much for your time and succinct explanation 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Looking forward to spreading this knowledge. This is totally my “astro thing,” it hits me to the core every time. 🔱
You’re very welcome! It is amazing and I agree! 🙂
Thank you
What is mother and daughter has the exact same birth card of K♠️, both born 1st Jan. How does this play out.
Hi Jardeh! That is a pretty intense situation! When a family member has the same birth cards, they are both really learning all the expressions of that card. They really get one another because they both share the same energetic makeup, but they are also a mirror to one another. In the case of mother/daughter, if there was anything mom suppressed or denied about being a K♠ – maybe feeling she couldn’t express that masculine energy, or she felt over responsible for everyone and everything, but the daughter did express that, then it can create projections or mom can be jealous or angry at the daughter – even if it seems for no reason.
When someone is a mirror for us, we can see what aspects of ourselves we have denied or are livng the low side of and make changes (as long as we don’t just get into conflict/drama and create a hard relationship). I think women who are Kings and female children who are Kings are coming in now to do some very needed work on helping the balance of male/female energies.
It might create a relationship that will be a lot of work, but can also create so much healing and benefits to many!
What if my own birth card or planetary ruling card is found in my long range. Does that mean that me, myself is what will be focused/important for that year? Or do I look at the card meaning in long range?
Hi Kyli!
It is pretty common to find that you have a lot of certain cards in your life as friends or family members. What is your birth card? Many times it is a card (or cards) that are part of your Life Path spread or you are part of theirs. You are on this journey to assisting one another in certain areas and the connection your cards have can reveal in what way!
Your birth card will never be the Long Range card under the forecast for your birth card, but we do sometimes have our Ruling card be the Long range card (or vice versa) for your yearly forecast. It doesn’t happen often and with some cards, it never does. But when it does, you are given an opportunity to really feel into the energy of your birth or ruling card. You are getting reflected back to you through experiences and situiations, YOU. Also, you need to use the meaning of that card as well. But it can give you a broader sense of the meaning of it as your Birth or ruling card when you get to experience it the whole year.
What does it mean when many people in my life are the A♠️? Both of my daughters are the A♠️, my husbands grandmother who raised him. My husbands best friend? They are all A♠️ birth cards but all different birthdays.