Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Donovan's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds
The Universal Provider
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
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. The birth-card coordinate for May 10 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Performers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2012 Performers — Donovan
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Donovan's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Donovan. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.
Donovan in the public record
He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored numerous international hit singles and albums during the late 1960s. His work became emblematic of the flower power era with its blend of folk, pop, psychedelia and jazz stylings. Donovan first achieved recognition with live performances on the pop TV series Ready Steady Go! in 1965. Having signed with Pye Records that year, he recorded singles and two albums in the folk vein for Hickory Records, scoring three UK hit singles: "Catch the Wind", "Colours" and "Universal Soldier", the last written by Buffy Sainte-Marie. He then signed to CBS/Epic in the US and became more successful internationally, beginning a long collaboration with British record producer Mickie Most. In September 1966, "Sunshine Superman" topped America's Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week and went to No. 2 in Britain, followed by "Mellow Yellow" at US No. 2 in December 1966, then 1968's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in the top 5 in both countries and then "Atlantis", which reached US No.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Donovan (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 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 Donovan, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Donovan's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♦ — Birth Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♣ — 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.
You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.
His performing and recording became sporadic until a revival in the 1990s with the emergence of Britain's rave scene and, in 1994, he moved permanently to Ireland where he still lives.
Paired on shared wording: lives, still. This line comes from the Neptune position of the 9♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- 7 in May 1969.
- The compilation Donovan's Greatest Hits was released in March 1969 and peaked at No.
- 4 on the Billboard 200.
- Donovan became a friend of other prominent musicians such as Joan Baez, Brian Jones and the Beatles.
Other inductees with this card
- Andy Taylor — 2022 Performers with Duran Duran
- Bill Haley — 1987 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Bono — 2005 Performers with U2
- Dave Mason — 2004 Performers with Traffic
- David Ruffin — 1989 Performers with The Temptations
- Fuzzy Haskins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Henry Fambrough — 2023 Performers with The Spinners
- Inspectah Deck — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
- Lois Reeves — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
- Michael Shrieve — 1998 Performers with Santana
- Nick Rhodes — 2022 Performers with Duran Duran
- Pete Willis — 2019 Performers with Def Leppard
- 5 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Donovan's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. May 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 Donovan's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-05-10 is the day-precision date on Donovan'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, Donovan) + Wikidata CC0 (Q317427). Birth date 1946-05-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).