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Dermontti Dawson's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Dermontti Farra Dawson (born June 17, 1965) is an American former professional football player who was a center and long snapper in the National Football League (NFL). The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a Hall of Fame vote.
Wikipedia summary
Dermontti Farra Dawson is an American former professional football player who was a center and long snapper in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football with the Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 1988 NFL draft and spent his entire pro career with the team and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.
The King of Clubs coordinate
Dermontti Dawson's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about induction and not a verdict on Dermontti Dawson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it. Life-direction language from the harvested meaning, not a biography: Your curriculum is learning that good leadership means considering other perspectives. You're learning that clarity and humility can coexist. Under-expressed language from the same harvest: You withhold the call and still believe you already know. Authority hides instead of working.
The public formula uses only month and day. Solar value equals fifty-five minus twice the month minus the day. Values one through fifty-two map onto the deck from the Ace of Hearts through the King of Spades. Solar value zero is December 31, published here as the Joker. Card Blueprints does not remap that boundary to the King of Spades on these pages. Leap-day February 29 is computed directly and is not folded onto February 28. The year of birth is unused. No reading is generated and nothing here forecasts a roster, a vote, a championship, or a career. Evidence sentences are copied from the Wikipedia extract without paraphrase. If a Hall of Fame biography or an infobox day disagrees with Wikidata, the person is omitted instead of reconciled by guesswork. Attribution stays on Wikidata, Wikipedia, and the Hall of Fame record. Gregorian day precision is required; Wikidata claims are CC0. Sitelinks and wbgetentities are the identity crosswalk. Conflicts stay uninvented. Remainder dates are not disambiguated by hand.
Dermontti Dawson in the public record
He played college football with the Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 1988 NFL draft and spent his entire pro career with the team and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012. Dawson was born in Lexington, Kentucky where he attended Bryan Station High School. He was a nationally ranked high school track and field performer in the discus and shot put. After having a bad experience playing ninth grade football, Dawson chose not to go out for his high school team his sophomore year. He joined the football team as a junior after being recruited due to his size by the school's football coach. He was an all-state offensive tackle in high school and eventually accepted a football scholarship to attend the University of Kentucky. Among his high school teammates were future NFL players Marc Logan and Cornell Burbage.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Dermontti Dawson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds
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 Dermontti Dawson, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Dermontti Dawson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — 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.
You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call. You approach resources as something to master and control. You're ambitious, competitive, and strategic. You know how to play the game and win.
He played in 170 consecutive games, the second-most in Steelers history, until severe hamstring injuries forced him to sit out nine games in 1999 and seven more games in 2000.
Paired on shared wording: games, played. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the J♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- Dawson played center and guard at Kentucky.
- He lettered in each of his four years.
- In his freshman year in 1984 the team defeated Wisconsin in the Hall of Fame Bowl.
- As a senior in 1987 Dawson was named second-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC).
Other inductees with this card
- Arnie Weinmeister — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Art Monk — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Art Rooney — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Bobby Bell — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Chris Hanburger — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Ed Reed — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Elroy Hirsch — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Fritz Pollard — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- John Stallworth — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Ken Strong — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Mike Singletary — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Steve Owen — Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
- 1 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Dermontti Dawson's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. June 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Hall of Fame induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast honors, character, or fate.
- Where do Dermontti Dawson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1965-06-17 is Wikidata P569 at day precision (CC0, Gregorian preferred) for Dermontti Dawson, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. The Pro Football Hall of Fame ID is Wikidata P6930 (dermontti-dawson). Wikipedia's day-precision infobox or lead (1965-06-17) matches. The Pro Football Hall of Fame bio day (1965-06-17) matches. Year-only dates and source conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q522199, P6930 + P569) + Pro Football Hall of Fame (dermontti-dawson) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Dermontti Dawson). Birth date 1965-06-17 is the Wikidata day-precision date (match).