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Al Greenwood's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

2024 Performers with Foreigner

Born October 20, 1951

The Collaborative Builder

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

In the record

Alan Greenwood (born October 20, 1951) is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. The birth-card coordinate for October 20 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2024 Performers with Foreigner induction.

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The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Al Greenwood's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Al Greenwood. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

Live 2 of Clubs meaning page

Al Greenwood in the public record

He performed on the albums Foreigner (1977), Double Vision (1978) and Head Games (1979). In 2024, Greenwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Foreigner. In 1981, Greenwood formed the band Spys with former Foreigner bass player Ed Gagliardi, John Blanco, John Digaudio and Billy Milne and recorded the albums Spys (1982) and Behind Enemy Lines (1983). Greenwood played keyboards on former Rainbow (and future Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Deep Purple) frontman Joe Lynn Turner's 1985 debut solo album, Rescue You. Greenwood produced and played keyboards on many Arti Tisi recordings ( with Alice Cooper, Megadeth) and Trans-Siberian Orchestra) guitarist Al Pitrelli. 1977: Foreigner (#4 US) 1978: Double Vision (#3 US, #32 UK) 1979: Head Games (#5 US) 1982: Records (#10 US, #58 UK) 1992: The Very Best ... and Beyond (#123 US, #19 UK) 1993: Classic Hits Live/Best Of Live 1994: JukeBox Heroes: The Best Of 1998: The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is 1999: The Platinum Collection 2000: Hot Blooded And Other Hits 2000: Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology 2002: Complete Greatest Hits (#80 US) 2002: The Definitive (#33 UK) 2004: Hot Blooded And Other Hits 2005: The Essentials 2008: No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (#132 US) 2009: Can't Slow Down (#29 US) 2014: The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991 1980: Third Wave Civilization 1982: Spys 1983: Behind Enemy Lines 1996: Spys / Behind Enemy Lines 1985: Rescue You (#146 US) 1998: Hurry Up and Wait 1999: Waiting For A Girl Like You (EP) 2016: Street of Dreams – Boston 1985 1987: Heart Over Mind (#118 US, #48 UK) 1998: Garbo Talks As per an interview conducted by Dominic Milano from Contemporary Keyboard (Keyboard since 1980), and appeared in the April 1979 issue, Greenwood stated, "When I first got into Foreigner I had a Hammond L-100 and an EML 101 synthesizer, and I think I had an Orchestron, but that's all been changed. Now I use a cutdown Hammond B-3, an ARP Omni, and a Wurlitzer electric piano. I still use the same EML 101, which I've had for about six years, and I just got an Oberheim OB-1, which is a really nice little programmable synthesizer."

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

Where the record meets the 2 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 Al Greenwood, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Al Greenwood's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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 think best with someone else in the room, and you still leave with a position of your own. You think best with others. Ideas solidify when you talk them through. You're the debater, the collaborator, the one who makes partnerships work through communication.

2♣ — Birth Card, from the published 2 of Clubs meaning

1977: Foreigner (#4 US) 1978: Double Vision (#3 US, #32 UK) 1979: Head Games (#5 US) 1982: Records (#10 US, #58 UK) 1992: The Very Best ... and Beyond (#123 US, #19 UK) 1993: Classic Hits Live/Best Of Live 1994: JukeBox Heroes: The Best Of 1998: The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is 1999: The Platinum Collection 2000: Hot Blooded And Other Hits 2000: Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology 2002: Complete Greatest Hits (#80 US) 2002: The Definitive (#33 UK) 2004: Hot Blooded And Other Hits 2005: The Essentials 2008: No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (#132 US) 2009: Can't Slow Down (#29 US) 2014: The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991 1980: Third Wave Civilization 1982: Spys 1983: Behind Enemy Lines 1996: Spys / Behind Enemy Lines 1985: Rescue You (#146 US) 1998: Hurry Up and Wait 1999: Waiting For A Girl Like You (EP) 2016: Street of Dreams – Boston 1985 1987: Heart Over Mind (#118 US, #48 UK) 1998: Garbo Talks As per an interview conducted by Dominic Milano from Contemporary Keyboard (Keyboard since 1980), and appeared in the April 1979 issue, Greenwood stated, "When I first got into Foreigner I had a Hammond L-100 and an EML 101 synthesizer, and I think I had an Orchestron, but that's all been changed.

Paired on shared wording: best, talks, think.

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FAQ

What is Al Greenwood's birth card?
The 2 of Clubs. October 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall 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 awards, character, or fate.
Where do Al Greenwood's dates come from?
Birth date 1951-10-20 is the day-precision date on Al Greenwood's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata 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: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Al Greenwood) + Wikidata CC0 (Q4703923). Birth date 1951-10-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).