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Robert Redford's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

2005 Kennedy Center Honors

Born August 18, 1936

Died September 16, 2025

The Ambitious 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

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. The birth-card coordinate for August 18 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Robert Redford's 2005 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

Robert Redford is on the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Robert Redford (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Robert Redford (Q59215, Wikipedia “Robert Redford”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Robert Redford is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Robert Redford: 2005 Robert Redford. Robert Redford's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1936-08-18 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Robert Redford, verified against Wikidata P569 1936-08-18 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Robert Redford is not_published. The harvested card symbol for August 18 is 8♣. A public death date of September 16, 2025 (2025-09-16) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Robert Redford. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford is the Wikipedia article used for Robert Redford. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Robert Redford. It only names the calendar coordinate for August 18 and the Honors years already listed for Robert Redford.

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

Robert Redford was born August 18, 1936 (1936-08-18). Month 8 and day 18 give solar value 21, which is the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1936 is unused, so Robert Redford's 1936 birth year does not move the card. The 8 of Clubs does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Robert Redford. Quoted system copy for the 8 of Clubs, not a biography of Robert Redford: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player. Harvested gifts listed for the 8 of Clubs: Strategic thinking and long-term planning; Ability to coordinate complex intellectual projects; Ambitious drive and determination; Talent for building intellectual authority. Harvested life-direction line for the 8 of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that intelligence includes wisdom about people, not just ideas. You're learning to use your mind for connection, not just conquest.

Live 8 of Clubs meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994. He also earned various other honors, including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019.

Robert Redford in the public record

Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994. He also earned various other honors, including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. Redford began his career on television in the late 1950s, appearing in anthology series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He made his Broadway debut in Neil Simon's comedy Barefoot in the Park (1963) before taking film roles in War Hunt (1962) and Inside Daisy Clover (1965). Redford achieved Hollywood stardom with Barefoot in the Park (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Downhill Racer (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Candidate (1972), and The Sting (1973), with the last earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Redford’s stardom continued with films such as The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), All the President's Men (1976), The Electric Horseman (1979), The Natural (1984) and Out of Africa (1985). Later credits include Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), An Unfinished Life (2005), All Is Lost (2013), Truth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017) and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 Robert Redford, and not a forecast of an honor.

Cards in Robert Redford's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 8♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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 make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.

10♥ — Life Spread — Mars, fixed to the 8♣, from the published 10 of Hearts meaning

He also earned various other honors, including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019.

Paired on shared wording: center, including. This line comes from the Mars position of the 8♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. He also played Alexander Pierce in the MCU films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), the latter serving as his final film role.
  2. Redford made his directorial debut with the family drama Ordinary People (1980), which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
  3. His later directing credits include The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).
  4. A major advocate for independent cinema, Redford co-founded the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival in 1978, helping to foster a new generation of filmmakers.

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FAQ

What is Robert Redford's birth card?
The 8 of Clubs. August 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Robert Redford'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 Robert Redford's dates and Honors credits come from?
Birth date 1936-08-18 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Robert Redford, 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 2005 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, Robert Redford) + Wikidata CC0 (Q59215). Birth date 1936-08-18 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).