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Doug Burgum's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Cabinet post.
In the record
Douglas James Burgum ( BURG-əm; born August 1, 1956) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 55th United States secretary of the interior since 2025 under President Donald Trump. The birth-card coordinate for August 1 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the Cabinet.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Doug Burgum's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Cabinet seat and not a verdict on Doug Burgum. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
Doug Burgum in the public record
A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 33rd governor of North Dakota from 2016 to 2024. Burgum was born and raised in Arthur, North Dakota. After graduating from North Dakota State University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in university studies and earning an MBA from Stanford University two years later, he mortgaged inherited farmland in 1983 to invest in Great Plains Software in Fargo. Becoming its president in 1984, he took the company public in 1997. Burgum sold the company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001. While working at Microsoft, he managed Microsoft Business Solutions. He has served as board chairman for Australian software company Atlassian and SuccessFactors. Burgum is the founder of Kilbourne Group, a Fargo-based real-estate development firm, and also is the co-founder of Arthur Ventures, a software venture capital group.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Doug Burgum (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen of Diamonds
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Doug Burgum, and not a forecast of a Cabinet post.
Cards in Doug Burgum's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, Q♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Natural ability to provide and nurture materially
Douglas James Burgum ( BURG-əm; born August 1, 1956) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 55th United States secretary of the interior since 2025 under President Donald Trump.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: businessman.
Also on the record
- Burgum won the 2016 North Dakota gubernatorial election in a landslide.
- He was reelected by a wide margin in 2020.
- In June 2023, Burgum launched a campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
- He ended his candidacy in early December 2023, and became an advisor on the Trump campaign's energy policy.
Other sitting Cabinet officers with this card
- Chris Wright — Secretary of Energy
FAQ
- What is Doug Burgum's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. August 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Cabinet post?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast appointments, character, or fate.
- Where do Doug Burgum's dates come from?
- Birth date 1956-08-01 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Doug Burgum, sitting Secretary of the Interior, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. The White House cabinet page confirms who is sitting and does not publish dates of birth. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: White House cabinet + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Doug Burgum; Cabinet of the United States, match) + Wikidata CC0 (Q22095395).