Kennedy Center Honors · person-scope · birth-card coordinate
Kirk Douglas's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs
The Humanitarian Builder
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
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. The birth-card coordinate for December 9 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Kirk Douglas's 1994 Kennedy Center Honors.
Kennedy Center Honors record
- 1994 Kennedy Center Honors — Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas is on the 1994 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Kirk Douglas (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Kirk Douglas (Q104027, Wikipedia “Kirk Douglas”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Kirk Douglas is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Kirk Douglas: 1994 Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1916-12-09 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Kirk Douglas, verified against Wikidata P569 1916-12-09 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Kirk Douglas is not_published. The harvested card symbol for December 9 is 9♣. A public death date of February 5, 2020 (2020-02-05) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Kirk Douglas. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas is the Wikipedia article used for Kirk Douglas. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Kirk Douglas. It only names the calendar coordinate for December 9 and the Honors years already listed for Kirk Douglas.
The 9 of Clubs coordinate
Kirk Douglas was born December 9, 1916 (1916-12-09). Month 12 and day 9 give solar value 22, which is the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1916 is unused, so Kirk Douglas's 1916 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Clubs does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Kirk Douglas. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Clubs, not a biography of Kirk Douglas: You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Clubs: Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective; Ability to inspire others toward possibility; Universal principles and humanitarian ideals; Natural optimism about human potential. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that ideals only matter if they're implemented. You're learning to get your hands dirty, to do the unglamorous work.
Wikipedia summary used as source_text
Kirk Douglas was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films and was known for his explosive acting style. He was named by the American Film Institute the 17th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema.
Kirk Douglas in the public record
After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films and was known for his explosive acting style. He was named by the American Film Institute the 17th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema. Douglas played an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His other early films include Out of the Past (1947); Young Man with a Horn (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day; Ace in the Hole (1951); and Detective Story (1951), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He received his second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and earned his third for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), a role for which he won the Golden Globe for the Best Actor in a Drama. He also starred with James Mason in the adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), a large box-office hit.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kirk Douglas (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Kirk Douglas's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♣ — Birth Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- K♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Rigid Truth
- 10♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Community Heart
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wealthy Master
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♣, 6♦, Q♥, K♦, 7♠, 3♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 8♣, 4♠, 10♥, 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
- In September 1949 at the age of 32, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960).
- In those two films, he collaborated with the then relatively unknown director Stanley Kubrick, taking lead roles in both films.
- Douglas arguably helped to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit.
- He produced and starred in Lonely Are the Brave (1962) and Seven Days in May (1964), the latter opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films.
Other honorees with this card
- Al Pacino — 2016 Kennedy Center Honors
- Arthur Mitchell — 1993 Kennedy Center Honors
- Ella Fitzgerald — 1979 Kennedy Center Honors
- Harold Nicholas — 1991 Kennedy Center Honors
- Jessye Norman — 1997 Kennedy Center Honors
- Mstislav Rostropovich — 1992 Kennedy Center Honors
- Paul Simon — 2002 Kennedy Center Honors
- Philip Glass — 2018 Kennedy Center Honors
- Robert De Niro — 2009 Kennedy Center Honors
- Roy Acuff — 1991 Kennedy Center Honors
FAQ
- What is Kirk Douglas's birth card?
- The 9 of Clubs. December 9 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Kirk Douglas'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 Kirk Douglas's dates and Honors credits come from?
- Birth date 1916-12-09 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Kirk Douglas, 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 1994 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, Kirk Douglas) + Wikidata CC0 (Q104027). Birth date 1916-12-09 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).