so what actually is my tarot birth card, i keep getting different answers

ok so ive been down a rabbit hole on birth cards and the internet cannot agree with itself. some calculators reduce my birthday all the way down to a single digit, others stop at two numbers and hand me a pair, a major plus the card it reduces to. ive seen the Empress, the High Priestess AND the Hermit depending on which site i trust that day lol. the way i learned it originally, you add the full date, and if the sum is over 21 you reduce once more, which can leave you with two cards that work as a kind of personality plus soul pairing. but then half the forums tell me thats wrong and you only ever land on one. im not fussed about getting a better card, im genuinely curious how you all calculate yours and whether you lean one card or the pair. drop your method 🌙

yep the two-card pair is how i learned it too

right? and i actually like the pairing bc it gives you the outward card and the quieter under-one. mine comes out Wheel of Fortune over the Magician when i do it that way, and honestly both feel true depending on the kind of year im having. the single-card method just flattens all that for me 🌙

anyway now im side-eyeing every calculator that skips the reduction step lol. might make a little cheat sheet for the wiki