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James Earl Jones's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds
The Wealthy Master
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
James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 17 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of James Earl Jones's 2002 Kennedy Center Honors.
Kennedy Center Honors record
- 2002 Kennedy Center Honors — James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones is on the 2002 Kennedy Center Honors roster as James Earl Jones (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). James Earl Jones (Q203960, Wikipedia “James Earl Jones”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. James Earl Jones is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for James Earl Jones: 2002 James Earl Jones. James Earl Jones's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1931-01-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day for James Earl Jones, verified against Wikidata P569 1931-01-17 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for James Earl Jones is not_published. The harvested card symbol for January 17 is 10♦. A public death date of September 9, 2024 (2024-09-09) is listed on Wikidata P570 for James Earl Jones. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Jones is the Wikipedia article used for James Earl Jones. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for James Earl Jones. It only names the calendar coordinate for January 17 and the Honors years already listed for James Earl Jones.
The 10 of Diamonds coordinate
James Earl Jones was born January 17, 1931 (1931-01-17). Month 1 and day 17 give solar value 36, which is the 10 of Diamonds (The Wealthy Master). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1931 is unused, so James Earl Jones's 1931 birth year does not move the card. The 10 of Diamonds does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on James Earl Jones. Quoted system copy for the 10 of Diamonds, not a biography of James Earl Jones: You build enough and keep it structured so it actually holds. You've built, accumulated, and integrated material success. You have security, abundance, and wisdom. Your presence radiates material confidence. Harvested gifts listed for the 10 of Diamonds: Integrated material mastery and security; Ability to radiate confidence about resources; Wisdom from building and maintaining wealth; Natural generosity from a place of abundance. Harvested life-direction line for the 10 of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that wealth is a process, not a destination. You're learning to keep growing despite security.
Wikipedia summary used as source_text
James Earl Jones was an American actor. A pioneer for Black actors in the entertainment industry, he was acclaimed for his performances on stage and screen. Jones is one of the few performers to achieve the EGOT. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985 and was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011.
James Earl Jones in the public record
A pioneer for Black actors in the entertainment industry, he was acclaimed for his performances on stage and screen. Jones is one of the few performers to achieve the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985 and was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011. Born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, Jones overcame a childhood stutter. A pre-med major in college, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. His deep voice was praised as a "stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects. Jones made his Broadway debut in the play Sunrise at Campobello (1957) and gained fame starring in several productions with Shakespeare in the Park including Othello (1964), Coriolanus (1965), Hamlet (1972), and King Lear (1973).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James Earl Jones (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs
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 James Earl Jones, and not a forecast of an honor.
Cards in James Earl Jones's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♦ — Birth Card: The Wealthy Master
- Q♠ — Karma — Environment: The Wise Guide
- Q♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Nurturing Leader
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- A♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Restless Heart
- 5♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Innovator
- 4♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Messenger
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Questioning Mind
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.
You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it. Your mind is sharp, questioning, skeptical. You see through illusions and can identify patterns others miss. You're the critical thinker.
Jones acted in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015).
Paired on shared wording: miss, take. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 10♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- For his roles on Broadway, Jones won two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Play for playing a boxer in the Howard Sackler play The Great White Hope (1968) and a working class father in August Wilson's Fences (1987).
- He was nominated for other Tonys for his roles as part of an elderly couple in On Golden Pond (2005) and as a former president in The Best Man (2012).
- Jones acted in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015).
- He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.
Other honorees with this card
- Adam Clayton — 2022 Kennedy Center Honors with U2
- Barry Gibb — 2023 Kennedy Center Honors
- Bill T. Jones — 2010 Kennedy Center Honors
- Billy Joel — 2013 Kennedy Center Honors
- Gloria Estefan — 2017 Kennedy Center Honors
- Jessica Tandy — 1986 Kennedy Center Honors
- Lily Tomlin — 2014 Kennedy Center Honors
- Seiji Ozawa — 2015 Kennedy Center Honors
- Tony Bennett — 2005 Kennedy Center Honors
FAQ
- What is James Earl Jones's birth card?
- The 10 of Diamonds. January 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. James Earl Jones'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 James Earl Jones's dates and Honors credits come from?
- Birth date 1931-01-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for James Earl Jones, 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 2002 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, James Earl Jones) + Wikidata CC0 (Q203960). Birth date 1931-01-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).