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Carole King's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades
The Sorrowful Truth
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
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music. The birth-card coordinate for February 9 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2021 Performers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2021 Performers — Carole King
The 3 of Spades coordinate
Carole King's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Carole King. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.
Carole King in the public record
She wrote or co-wrote 118 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 during the latter half of the 20th century and 61 songs that reached the UK charts, establishing her as the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts from 1962 to 2005. In the 1960s, King and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, composed over two dozen hit songs for various artists, many of which remain standards. She transitioned to a solo performing career in the 1970s, following her debut album Writer (1970) with the critically acclaimed Tapestry (1971), which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks and stayed on the charts for over six years. King has released 25 solo albums, with Tapestry being her most successful, and has sold over 75 million records worldwide. Her honors include four Grammy Awards, inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a performer and songwriter), the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (as its first female recipient), and the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Carole King (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 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 Carole King, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Carole King's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♠ — Birth Card: The Sorrowful Truth
- J♦ — Karma — Environment: The Successful Messenger
- 6♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Generous Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 9♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 2♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Skeptical Partner
- 8♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Powerhouse
- 6♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Nurturing Creator
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.
Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition
She wrote or co-wrote 118 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 during the latter half of the 20th century and 61 songs that reached the UK charts, establishing her as the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts from 1962 to 2005.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: wrote. This line comes from the Venus position of the 3♠'s Life Spread.
Other inductees with this card
- Agnetha Fältskog — 2010 Performers with ABBA
- Alan Wilder — 2020 Performers with Depeche Mode
- Allan Clarke — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
- Billy Williamson — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Chris White — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
- Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas — 2024 Performers with Kool & the Gang
- Ernie Isley — 1992 Performers with The Isley Brothers
- Frankie Valli — 1990 Performers with The Four Seasons
- James Brown — 1986 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Famous Flames
- Mary J. Blige — 2024 Performers
- Mike McCready — 2017 Performers with Pearl Jam
- Ronnie Wood — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones; 2012 Performers with The Small Faces
- 3 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Carole King's birth card?
- The 3 of Spades. February 9 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 Carole King's dates come from?
- Birth date 1942-02-09 is the day-precision date on Carole King'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, Carole King) + Wikidata CC0 (Q217787). Birth date 1942-02-09 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).