Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Cliff Burton's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades
The Skeptical Partner
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
Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician who served as the bassist for the thrash metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. The birth-card coordinate for February 10 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Performers with Metallica induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2009 Performers — inducted member of Metallica
The 2 of Spades coordinate
Cliff Burton's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). 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 Cliff Burton. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.
Cliff Burton in the public record
He is renowned for his musicianship and influence. Burton's early musical ventures include performing in bands such as EZ-Street and Agents of Misfortune, and frequently collaborating with guitarist Jim Martin. While performing in Los Angeles with Trauma, he was discovered by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich who asked him to replace bassist Ron McGovney in Metallica. After the release of the band's first two albums, Kill 'Em All (1983) and Ride the Lightning (1984), Burton and Metallica achieved a worldwide breakthrough with Master of Puppets (1986), often cited as both the band's best work and one of the best metal albums of all time. While touring in 1986 to support Master of Puppets, Burton was killed when the band's tour bus was involved in an accident. He received a posthumous writing credit on ...And Justice for All (1988) for the song "To Live Is to Die" and was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Metallica in 2009. He also appeared in a 2011 Rolling Stone readers' poll recognizing the greatest bassists of all time, and in Rolling Stone's list of the 50 greatest bass players of all time.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Cliff Burton (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Cliff Burton's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♠ — Birth Card: The Skeptical Partner
- K♣ — Karma — Environment: The Master Leader
- 6♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Responsible Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- A♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 8♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Completed Mind
- 5♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Dynamic Innovator
- 3♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Success Communicator
- A♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Truth Pioneer
- 7♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Reflective Heart
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 2♠, K♣, 6♠, 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Other inductees with this card
- Charlie Watts — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- Cynthia Robinson — 1993 Performers with Sly and the Family Stone
- Don Wilson — 2008 Performers with The Ventures
- Jackie Jackson — 1997 Performers with The Jackson 5
- Jimmy Merchant — 1993 Performers with Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
- Johnny Carter — 2001 Performers with The Flamingos; 2004 Performers with The Dells
- Mike Dirnt — 2015 Performers with Green Day
- Raekwon — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
- Randy Meisner — 1998 Performers with Eagles
- Ruth Brown — 1993 Performers
- Zack de la Rocha — 2023 Performers with Rage Against the Machine
FAQ
- What is Cliff Burton's birth card?
- The 2 of Spades. February 10 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 Cliff Burton's dates come from?
- Birth date 1962-02-10 is the day-precision date on Cliff Burton'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, Cliff Burton) + Wikidata CC0 (Q188973). Birth date 1962-02-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).