Paul Taylor's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

Paul Belville Taylor Jr. (July 29, 1930 – August 29, 2018) was an American dancer and choreographer. The birth-card coordinate for July 29 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of Paul Taylor's 1992 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

• 1992 Kennedy Center Honors — Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor is on the 1992 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Paul Taylor (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Paul Taylor (Q2916069, Wikipedia “Paul Taylor (choreographer)”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Paul Taylor is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Paul Taylor: 1992 Paul Taylor. Paul Taylor's English Wikipedia title is “Paul Taylor (choreographer)”, which is the sitelink used for the REST summary. Birth date 1930-07-29 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Paul Taylor, verified against Wikidata P569 1930-07-29 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Paul Taylor is not_published. The harvested card symbol for July 29 is Q♥. A public death date of August 29, 2018 (2018-08-29) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Paul Taylor. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Taylor_(choreographer) is the Wikipedia article used for Paul Taylor. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Paul Taylor. It only names the calendar coordinate for July 29 and the Honors years already listed for Paul Taylor.

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

Paul Taylor was born July 29, 1930 (1930-07-29). Month 7 and day 29 give solar value 12, which is the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1930 is unused, so Paul Taylor's 1930 birth year does not move the card. The Queen of Hearts does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Paul Taylor. Quoted system copy for the Queen of Hearts, not a biography of Paul Taylor: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next. You're wired to care with depth and intuition—you read what people feel before they say it and you tend to it. You embody emotional wisdom, offering others a felt sense of being truly seen and held. Nurturing is your mastery. Harvested gifts listed for the Queen of Hearts: Nurturing others through authentic, intuitive presence; Deep emotional attunement and empathy; Embodied emotional wisdom; Making others feel genuinely seen and held. Harvested life-direction line for the Queen of Hearts: Your curriculum is learning that your needs matter as much as everyone else's. You're learning to nurture without controlling, to give care that has no strings.

Live Queen of Hearts meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Paul Belville Taylor Jr. was an American dancer and choreographer. He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New York City.

Paul Taylor in the public record

He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New York City. Taylor was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Paul Belville Taylor Sr., a physicist, and to the former Elizabeth Rust Pendleton. He grew up in and around Washington, DC. By his teens, he had grown to more than six feet in height. Taylor attended Virginia Episcopal School. He was a student of painting and swam and competed on the swim team, for which he was the recipient of a swimming scholarship, at Syracuse University in the late 1940s. Upon discovering dance through books at the school library, Taylor created his first piece of choreography on Syracuse University Dance department students, which was entitled Hobo Ballet.

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Paul Taylor, and not a forecast of an honor.

You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

The Dance Observer critic Louis Horst published a blank column that stated only the location and date of Taylor’s performance as a review in November 1957 as a response to Duet, after which Martha Graham called him a "naughty boy." After the debut of Taylor’s Seven New Dances, Taylor continued choreographing new works which led to the completion of two European tours and ten new dances, all while still dancing with the Graham company.

Paired on shared wording: still, works.

Also on the record

1. Taylor then transferred to Juilliard, where he earned a B.S. degree in dance in 1953 under director Martha Hill.
2. It is Taylor's dedication to swimming and other widely varied experiences that has been said to have taught him the commitment imperative to a successful dance career and allowed him to develop his unique and diverse dance aesthetic.
3. In 1954 Taylor assembled a small company of dancers and began making his own works.
4. A commanding performer despite his late start, he joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1955 for the first of seven seasons as soloist where he created the role of the evil Aegisthus in Graham's Clytemnestra, as well as other roles including in Acrobats of God and Alcestis, Visionary Recital, One More Gaudy Night, and Phaedra.

Other honorees with this card

• Cicely Tyson — 2015 Kennedy Center Honors
• Johnny Carson — 1993 Kennedy Center Honors
• Natalia Makarova — 2012 Kennedy Center Honors

FAQ

What is Paul Taylor's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. July 29 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Paul Taylor'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 Paul Taylor's dates and Honors credits come from?

Birth date 1930-07-29 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Paul Taylor, 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 1992 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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