Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Bill Withers's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
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
William Harrison Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 – March 30, 2020) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for July 4 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Performers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2015 Performers — Bill Withers
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Bill Withers's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Bill Withers. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Bill Withers in the public record
Born in Slab Fork, West Virginia, and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, he is known for having several hits over a career spanning 18 years, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977) and "Just the Two of Us" (1980) (recorded in collaboration with Grover Washington Jr.). Withers won three Grammy Awards out of nine total nominations. He largely stopped performing and recording in the mid-1980s, citing burnout and conflicts with record company executives. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 and the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in 2025. Two of his songs, "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Lean on Me", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bill Withers (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack 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 Bill Withers, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Bill Withers's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — 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.
Ability to inspire financial awakening
He largely stopped performing and recording in the mid-1980s, citing burnout and conflicts with record company executives.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: company.
Other inductees with this card
- Alex Van Halen — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
- Annette Beard — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
- Atticus Ross — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
- Bill Legend — 2020 Performers with T. Rex
- Bob Bogle — 2008 Performers with The Ventures
- Chris Frantz — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
- Doris Kenner-Jackson — 1996 Performers with The Shirelles
- Eddie Hazel — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Garth Hudson — 1994 Performers with The Band
- James Taylor — 2000 Performers
- Jeremy Spencer — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
- Jim Capaldi — 2004 Performers with Traffic
- 11 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Bill Withers's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. July 4 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 Bill Withers's dates come from?
- Birth date 1938-07-04 is the day-precision date on Bill Withers'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, Bill Withers) + Wikidata CC0 (Q346565). Birth date 1938-07-04 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).