Hi Melissa,

15 would be the Devil, which symbolizes bondage, being stuck, chained to old ways/tradition, controlled by an outside force(s). I know this energy well as that's the year I'm in right now. It makes way for major change, though, once you get too stuck and fed up with the status quo.

The opposite of the Devil card (1+5=6) is the Lovers. In the Lovers card you have the same couple but instead of being subservient to the wishes of "the devil", they are blessed with the energy of an angel. After you experience the "stuckness" (or perhaps maybe just needed rest/complacency), 2007 may be your year for a new love, or moving forward on a project or something that's being blocked all this year.

18 is the Moon, which symbolizes the hidden, mystery, inner self, reflection on self. Together with the Devil, maybe some shadow issues you may be working on this year to clear the way for someone/something new next year. Stillness within, personal growth, no longer denying or hiding parts of yourself.

What do you think? Make any sense with what's happening in your life now? I usually look at the energy of the year starting on your birthday. If your birthday is near the end of the year, maybe you're not feeling the energies so much yet.

Here's mine...9-12-1968/2006

The Personal Year Number 2
This is a time of peace and meditation as well as ,love, partnership and community. Like with all cyclic processes you have to see the Year Numbers in their context, which lets your good fortune depend on whether or not you took on the challenges of the previous year and used the opportunities. The pace slows down now. Use the time to realize what you have accomplished and how to secure it.
Did you let the chances of last year pass by; you will regret it now and could be discontented with yourself. You might overreact sensitively to critique and find some satisfaction in being overly critical yourself.
Did you give your life new meaning last year, developed new ideas and worked on them, you will have now the chance to expand and secure them. This year in general is well suited to reevaluate your motivations, goals and to realize, how your own perspective on things can influence the events.
You should concentrate on your intuition and its connection to your feelings, in order to make up for, what you missed out on last year. You are sensitive in your relationships with your partner and friends, so they are deepening.
Card: The Devil

General Meaning: What has traditionally been known as the Devil card expresses the realm of the Taboo, the culturally rejected wildness and undigested shadow side that each of us carries in our subconscious. This shadow is actually at the core of our being, which we cannot get rid of and will never succeed in taming. From its earliest versions, which portrayed a vampire-demon, this card evoked the Church-fueled fear that a person could "lose their soul" to wild and passionate forces.

The image which emerged in the mid-1700's gives us a more sophisticated rendition -- that of the "scapegoated Goddess," whose esoteric name is Baphomet. Volcanic reserves of passion and primal desire empower her efforts to overcome the pressure of stereotyped roles and experience true freedom of soul. Tavaglione's highly evolved image (Stella deck) portrays the magical formula for harnessing and transmuting primal and obsessive emotions into a transformative energies. As a part of the Gnostic message of Tarot, this fearsome passion and power must be reintegrated into the personality, to fuel the soul's passage from mortal to immortal.

thanks Vicki! Actually, it's pretty dead on! Balence was never my thing. Therefore I'm always head-butting up agains lessons of balence. Go figure. haha
-=M

Hmmm... I guess I'm just not getting this then. Since my birthdate this year is 08/10/2006, I'm adding 18+2006=2024. I was then adding 2+0+2+4 to get 8. Even if I ad 20+24 I get 44, which also breaks down to 8. How are you getting 18?

I think I do understand 22 (44-22), but since my birthday isn't until August I thought I was supposed to use my age during the majority of the year (43). I'm also confused about 22/Fool. I thought The Fool was card #0. Are you using 22 because there is no Card#22 in the Major Arcana and birth numbers will never add up to zero? That must be it I guess.

Anyway, I guess my new meanings would be...

Card #18: The Moon
General Meaning: What has traditionally been known as the Moon card refers to a deep state of sensitivity and imaginative impressionability, developed within a womb of deep relaxation. Here we dream and go into trance, have visions and receive insights, wash in and out with the psychic tides, and experience deep mystical and/or terrifying realities beyond our ordinary senses. The full moon and/or eclipse cycle charted by the Magi (as in some of the earliest Moon card images) exemplify this as a mechanism that Nature uses to expand consciousness.

The variants of the courtly lovers (representing skillful use of the sex force) or the man sleeping it off under the tree (use of drugs to alter consciousness) are also traditional avenues for tapping this primal force. Human interest in higher states propels us to the frontiers of consciousness, where we cannot always control what happens. The Moon card represents the ultimate test of a soul's integrity, where the membrane between self and the Unknown is removed, and the drop of individuality reenters the Ocean of Being. What transpires next is between a soul and its Maker.

Card #22(0): The Fool
General Meaning: Pamela Coleman-Smith's artful rendition of an "innocent Fool" archetype (Rider-Waite deck) is often used to represent Tarot in general. Early classical versions of the Fool card, however, portray quite a different character -- a person driven by base needs and urges, who has fallen into a state of poverty and deprivation.

In some instances, he is made out to be a carnival entertainer or a huckster. In others, he is portrayed as decrepit and vulnerable -- as the cumulative result of his delusions and failures. Not until the 20th century do you see the popular Rider-Waite image of the Fool arise -- that of an innocent Soul before its Fall into Matter, as yet untainted by contact with society and all its ills.

Modern decks usually borrow from the Rider-Waite imagery. Most Fool cards copy the bucolic mountainside scene, the butterfly, the potential misplaced step that will send the Fool tumbling into the unknown. Don't forget, however, that the earlier versions of this card represented already-fallen humanity, over-identified with the material plane of existence, and beginning a pilgrimage towards self-knowledge, and eventually, wisdom. The Fool reminds us to recognize the path of personal development within ourselves -- and the stage upon that path where we find ourselves -- in order to energize our movement toward deeper self-realization.