# Quiz: What Major Arcana (tarot) are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 31, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722 "2014-05-31T21:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/41 "2014-06-02T04:54:52Z")
The Emperor. I’m sure my wife would not be surprised… ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/42 "2014-06-02T06:47:08Z")
Here’s me… II - The High Priestess 94% I - Magician 88% IV - The Emperor 88% III - The Empress 81% XIII: Death 81% VIII - Strength 75% XIX: The Sun 75% XVI: The Tower 69% XI: Justice 63% 0 - The Fool 44% VI: The Lovers 44% X - Wheel of Fortune 38% XV: The Devil 6% So, do I match 94% with the high Priestess and then 88% with the Magician and the Emporer? Is that how it works? ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/43 "2014-06-02T10:51:26Z")
Another Death here. And I happen to be a mortician. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/44 "2014-06-02T11:09:14Z")
I’m another Death, with a close second Fool. Fits me about so-so, but then again, that’s no great feat, since I told them my characteristics up-front… ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/45 "2014-06-02T11:15:09Z")
The Empress. Is she supposed to represent me? Or represent the things lacking in me? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/46 "2014-06-02T11:53:34Z")
V. The Hierophant ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/47 "2014-06-02T13:33:44Z")
This is a far from even distribution. It’s very lopsided, with some cards over-represented and some still at zero. Makes you wonder how the scoring is set up and how well it was designed. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/48 "2014-06-02T15:32:52Z")
XIX: The Sun 94% 0 - The Fool 88% VIII - Strength 81% II - The High Priestess 81% XI: Justice 69% IV - The Emperor 69% XIII: Death 56% I - Magician 56% I must be happy today! Historically, I’ve always card tested as “The Fool”. I still remember the laughing smile of an ex who did the “…you have found yourself!” quote many years ago. > [@Johanna](#): > > This is a far from even distribution. It’s very lopsided, with some cards over-represented and some still at zero. Makes you wonder how the scoring is set up and how well it was designed. +1 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/49 "2014-06-02T15:39:47Z")
II - The High Priestess 94% III - The Empress 81% VIII - Strength 75% I - Magician 75% ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/50 "2014-06-02T15:56:13Z")
Another fool here. Although anybody who has read any of my posts will have probably realised that already… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/51 "2014-06-02T16:08:47Z")
I am The Tower, so watch out for me I guess. High Priestess second. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/52 "2014-06-02T16:33:47Z")
XV: The Devil 88% XIII: Death 81% 0 - The Fool 75% OK, how scared should I be now? 'Cause this can’t be good. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/53 "2014-06-03T01:42:15Z")
Mine came down as a tie between Justice, High Priestess, and Emperor. I ended up with Justice. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/54 "2014-06-03T22:57:53Z")
I marked my answer according to a previous quiz, but for this quiz, my highest correlation was the Fool at 75%, followed by Devil and Death 69% each. ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/55 "2014-06-04T00:50:24Z")
I received the following as my top 3: II - The High Priestess 69% XIII: Death 56% 0 - The Fool 50% The description of the High Priestess kind of works for me, but I don’t think that Death and The Fool describe me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/56 "2014-06-04T14:24:22Z")
The Empress of Death. ```auto III - The Empress 81% XIII: Death 81% II - The High Priestess 75% 0 - The Fool 69% XIX: The Sun 69% XVI: The Tower 50% I - Magician 44% XV: The Devil 44% VIII - Strength 44% IV - The Emperor 38% VI: The Lovers 25% X - Wheel of Fortune 25% XI: Justice 25% ``` ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/57 "2014-06-04T14:46:25Z")
I too am\*\* The Sun\*\* but don’t ask me to go down on you. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/58 "2014-06-04T19:30:23Z")
I note that out of the 113 responses to the poll, 71 of them are in just three (The High Preistess, The Empress and Death) of the 22 options listed. I would call that a skewed result. Of course, there is no REASON why there should be a random distribution here, but I do wonder why the poll trends so heavily towards those three options. Is the poll badly designed or does this reflect something about the nature of the Arcana or the nature of Dopers, or both? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/59 "2014-06-05T16:51:31Z")
Another Death! Now I want cake. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722/60 "2014-06-05T19:58:54Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I note that out of the 113 responses to the poll, 71 of them are in just three (The High Preistess, The Empress and Death) of the 22 options listed. I would call that a skewed result. Of course, there is no REASON why there should be a random distribution here, but I do wonder why the poll trends so heavily towards those three options. Is the poll badly designed or does this reflect something about the nature of the Arcana or the nature of Dopers, or both? +1 Bad design. On matters apart from political leanings where we skew liberal, Doper polls of this sort, pretty much always, have a more even distribution. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiz-what-major-arcana-tarot-are-you/689722.md?page=4)