Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Calvin Simon's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs
The Master 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
Calvin Eugene Simon (May 22, 1942 – January 6, 2022) was an American singer who was a member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. The birth-card coordinate for May 22 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1997 Performers — inducted member of Parliament-Funkadelic
The 10 of Clubs coordinate
Calvin Simon's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 Calvin Simon. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.
Calvin Simon in the public record
He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 along with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Simon was born in Beckley, West Virginia on May 22, 1942. Simon was drafted into the United States Army in 1966, and served with C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment, 9th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War in 1967–68. Simon started out in the late 1950s as one of The Parliaments, a doo wop barbershop quintet led by George Clinton. In 1978, Simon (along with other original Parliaments Fuzzy Haskins and Grady Thomas), left Parliament-Funkadelic after financial and management disputes with Clinton. In 1981, the trio caused confusion when they formed a new band, and released an album called Connections & Disconnections under the name Funkadelic. In 1998, Simon, along with original Parliaments bass vocalist Ray Davis, Haskins, and Grady Thomas, founded Original P, performing until his departure in 2007. After a hiatus from the music industry, Simon turned to gospel music and recorded for his own label, Simon Says Records.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Calvin Simon (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 4 of Spades
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 Calvin Simon, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Calvin Simon's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♣ — Birth Card: The Master Builder
- 4♠ — Karma — Environment: The Rigid Truth
- J♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Messenger of Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- A♠ — 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 create coherent belief systems
Simon was drafted into the United States Army in 1966, and served with C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment, 9th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War in 1967–68.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: army.
Also on the record
- In June 2004 he released an album called Share the News, which reached #32 on the "Billboard" Top Gospel Albums chart.
- In 2019, he and Parliament-Funkadelic were given Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards.
- Simon died on January 6, 2022, at the age of 79.
- CalvinSimon.com Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Calvin Simon discography at Discogs Calvin Simon at IMDb
Other inductees with this card
- Billy Guy — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
- Bobby Elliott — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
- Brian Jones — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- Brian Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
- Danny Cedrone — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Diana Ross — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
- Dion — 1989 Performers
- Doug Clifford — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Ed King — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Glen Buxton — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
- Gregg Allman — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
- Ian Stewart — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- 22 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Calvin Simon's birth card?
- The 10 of Clubs. May 22 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 Calvin Simon's dates come from?
- Birth date 1942-05-22 is the day-precision date on Calvin Simon'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, Calvin Simon) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3429080). Birth date 1942-05-22 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).