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Ed King's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd

Born September 14, 1949

Died August 22, 2018

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

Edward Calhoun King (September 14, 1949 – August 22, 2018) was an American musician. The birth-card coordinate for September 14 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd induction.

Rock Hall record

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Ed King'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 Ed King. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

Live 10 of Clubs meaning page

Ed King in the public record

He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975, and again from 1987 to 1996. King was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. He was one of the founding members of the LA-based Strawberry Alarm Clock, a mid-1960s pop psychedelic rock band. The band's largest success was with the 1967 single "Incense and Peppermints", which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. While with the band he played both electric guitar and bass guitar. The band's popularity waned considerably in the early 1970s. Faced with the loss of their recording contract with Uni Records and with internal conflicts over musical direction, Strawberry Alarm Clock disbanded in early 1972.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ed King (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Ace 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 Ed King, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Ed King's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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 say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

A♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward, fixed to the 10♣, from the published Ace of Spades meaning

King met the members of what was to become the Jacksonville, Florida-based Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd when an earlier incarnation of the band known as The One Percent opened for Strawberry Alarm Clock in early 1968.

Paired on shared wording: become, early. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 10♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. King opted to relocate to the Southern United States to join Lynyrd Skynyrd (an earlier version of which had opened for Strawberry Alarm Clock four years earlier).
  2. King met the members of what was to become the Jacksonville, Florida-based Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd when an earlier incarnation of the band known as The One Percent opened for Strawberry Alarm Clock in early 1968.
  3. King was so enamored with the band that he told vocalist and leader Ronnie Van Zant that if they ever needed his services, he would be happy to join.
  4. It was not until 1972 when bassist Leon Wilkeson left the band that Van Zant took King up on his offer and asked him to join Skynyrd as the band's new bassist.

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FAQ

What is Ed King's birth card?
The 10 of Clubs. September 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 Ed King's dates come from?
Birth date 1949-09-14 is the day-precision date on Ed 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, Ed King) + Wikidata CC0 (Q971422). Birth date 1949-09-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).