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Herbie Hancock's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

2013 Kennedy Center Honors

Born April 12, 1940

The Universal Provider

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor.

In the record

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. The birth-card coordinate for April 12 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Herbie Hancock's 2013 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

Herbie Hancock is on the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Herbie Hancock (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Herbie Hancock (Q105875, Wikipedia “Herbie Hancock”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Herbie Hancock is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Herbie Hancock: 2013 Herbie Hancock. Herbie Hancock's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1940-04-12 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Herbie Hancock, verified against Wikidata P569 1940-04-12 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Herbie Hancock is not_published. The harvested card symbol for April 12 is 9♦. No day-precision Wikidata P570 death date is stored on this page for Herbie Hancock. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Hancock is the Wikipedia article used for Herbie Hancock. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Herbie Hancock. It only names the calendar coordinate for April 12 and the Honors years already listed for Herbie Hancock.

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Herbie Hancock was born April 12, 1940 (1940-04-12). Month 4 and day 12 give solar value 35, which is the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1940 is unused, so Herbie Hancock's 1940 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Diamonds does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Herbie Hancock. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Diamonds, not a biography of Herbie Hancock: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back. You think about resources in terms of universal good and human need. You want to provide for humanity. Your vision is about abundance for all. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Diamonds: Visionary thinking about resource distribution; Generous impulse toward universal good; Ability to inspire others to contribute; Natural idealism about abundance. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that you can't help anyone if you destroy yourself. You're learning to secure your own oxygen mask first.

Live 9 of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this time that he released one of his best-known and most influential albums, Head Hunters.

Herbie Hancock in the public record

He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this time that he released one of his best-known and most influential albums, Head Hunters. Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", all of which are jazz standards. During the 1980s, he had a hit single with the electronic instrumental "Rockit", a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 2007 album River: The Joni Letters, a tribute to his friend Joni Mitchell. In 2024, Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph ranked Hancock as the greatest keyboard player of all time.

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Herbie Hancock's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

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.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♦, 5♦, Q♦, K♣, 8♠, 2♠, 7♠, 2♣, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an honor.

Also on the record

  1. In 2025, he received the Polar Music Prize.
  2. Since 2012, Hancock has served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
  3. He is also the chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz until 2019).

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FAQ

What is Herbie Hancock's birth card?
The 9 of Diamonds. April 12 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Herbie Hancock'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 Herbie Hancock's dates and Honors credits come from?
Birth date 1940-04-12 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Herbie Hancock, 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 2013 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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Sources: Kennedy Center (honors record, kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Honors roster, Herbie Hancock) + Wikidata CC0 (Q105875). Birth date 1940-04-12 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).