Carmen de Lavallade's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

In the record

Carmen de Lavallade (March 6, 1931 – December 29, 2025) was an American actress, choreographer, and dancer. The birth-card coordinate for March 6 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Carmen de Lavallade's 2017 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

• 2017 Kennedy Center Honors — Carmen de Lavallade

Carmen de Lavallade is on the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Carmen de Lavallade (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Carmen de Lavallade (Q2939599, Wikipedia “Carmen de Lavallade”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Carmen de Lavallade is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Carmen de Lavallade: 2017 Carmen de Lavallade. Carmen de Lavallade's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1931-03-06 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Carmen de Lavallade, verified against Wikidata P569 1931-03-06 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Carmen de Lavallade is not_published. The harvested card symbol for March 6 is 4♠. A public death date of December 29, 2025 (2025-12-29) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Carmen de Lavallade. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_de_Lavallade is the Wikipedia article used for Carmen de Lavallade. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Carmen de Lavallade. It only names the calendar coordinate for March 6 and the Honors years already listed for Carmen de Lavallade.

The 4 of Spades coordinate

Carmen de Lavallade was born March 6, 1931 (1931-03-06). Month 3 and day 6 give solar value 43, which is the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1931 is unused, so Carmen de Lavallade's 1931 birth year does not move the card. The 4 of Spades does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Carmen de Lavallade. Quoted system copy for the 4 of Spades, not a biography of Carmen de Lavallade: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing. You build frameworks for understanding truth. You're organized in your thinking, structured in your beliefs. Your mind thinks in terms of principles and rules. Harvested gifts listed for the 4 of Spades: Ability to create coherent belief systems; Strong principles and ethical clarity; Organized thinking and clear logic; Natural integrity and consistency. Harvested life-direction line for the 4 of Spades: Your curriculum is learning that good principles flex. You're learning to hold your beliefs lightly.

Live 4 of Spades meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Carmen de Lavallade was an American actress, choreographer, and dancer. For many years, she was associated with and married to Tony Award–winning actor, dancer, and director Geoffrey Holder. In 2017, she received the Kennedy Center Honors award for lifetime achievement and contributions to American culture.

Carmen de Lavallade in the public record

For many years, she was associated with and married to Tony Award–winning actor, dancer, and director Geoffrey Holder. In 2017, she received the Kennedy Center Honors award for lifetime achievement and contributions to American culture. De Lavallade was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 6, 1931, to Creole parents from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was raised by her aunt, Adele, who owned one of the first African-American history bookshops on Central Avenue. De Lavallade's cousin, Janet Collins, was the first Creole/African descendant prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. The family was Catholic. She began studying ballet with Melissa Blake at the age of 16. After graduation from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, she was awarded a scholarship to study dance with Lester Horton.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Carmen de Lavallade (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Hearts

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 Carmen de Lavallade, and not a forecast of an honor.

Building reliable emotional foundations and trust

For many years, she was associated with and married to Tony Award–winning actor, dancer, and director Geoffrey Holder.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: married.

Also on the record

1. De Lavallade became a member of the Lester Horton Dance Theater in 1949 where she danced as a lead dancer until her departure for New York City with Alvin Ailey in 1954.
2. Like all of Horton's students, she studied other art forms, including painting, acting, music, set design and costuming, as well as ballet and other forms of modern and ethnic dance.
3. She studied dancing with ballerina Carmelita Maracci and acting with Stella Adler.
4. In 1954, de Lavallade made her Broadway debut partnered with Alvin Ailey in Truman Capote's musical House of Flowers (starring Pearl Bailey).

Other honorees with this card

• Antony Tudor — 1986 Kennedy Center Honors
• Jack Lemmon — 1996 Kennedy Center Honors
• John Williams — 2004 Kennedy Center Honors

FAQ

What is Carmen de Lavallade's birth card?

The 4 of Spades. March 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Carmen de Lavallade's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Carmen de Lavallade's dates and Honors credits come from?

Birth date 1931-03-06 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Carmen de Lavallade, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is not_published. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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