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David Crosby's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
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
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The birth-card coordinate for August 14 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Performers with The Byrds; 1997 Performers with Crosby, Stills & Nash induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1991 Performers — inducted member of The Byrds
- 1997 Performers — inducted member of Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
David Crosby's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 David Crosby. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
David Crosby in the public record
He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelia in the mid-1960s, and later as part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, which helped popularize the California sound of the 1970s. In addition to his music, Crosby was known for his outspoken personality, politics, and personal troubles: he was sometimes depicted as emblematic of the counterculture of the 1960s. After a short time performing in the folk music scene, Crosby co-founded the Byrds in 1964. They scored their first number-one hit in 1965 with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." Crosby appeared on the Byrds' first five albums and the original lineup's 1973 reunion album. In 1968, he formed Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. After the release of their debut album, CSN won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1969. The group later occasionally included Neil Young.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article David Crosby (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 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 David Crosby, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in David Crosby's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, Q♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
Integrated material mastery and security
After a short time performing in the folk music scene, Crosby co-founded the Byrds in 1964.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded.
Also on the record
- The core trio of CSN remained active from 1976 until 2016, and the duo of Crosby & Nash also recorded three gold albums in the 1970s.
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) reunions were held in each decade from the 1970s through the 2000s.
- Crosby released eight solo albums, albeit sporadically, over the course of his career.
- His solo debut was 1971's If I Could Only Remember My Name.
Other inductees with this card
- Bonnie Raitt — 2000 Performers
- Bruce Thomas — 2003 Performers with Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- Cher — 2024 Performers
- David Lee Roth — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
- Dizzy Reed — 2012 Performers with Guns N' Roses
- Fats Domino — 1986 Performers
- Joe Cocker — 2025 Performers
- Johnny Cash — 1992 Performers
- Jonathan Cain — 2017 Performers with Journey
- Larry Graham — 1993 Performers with Sly and the Family Stone
- Mike Smith — 2008 Performers with The Dave Clark Five
- Neil Peart — 2013 Performers with Rush
- 8 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is David Crosby's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. August 14 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 David Crosby's dates come from?
- Birth date 1941-08-14 is the day-precision date on David Crosby'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, David Crosby) + Wikidata CC0 (Q370560). Birth date 1941-08-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).