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Jackson Browne's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

2004 Performers

Born October 9, 1948

The Master 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

Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States. The birth-card coordinate for October 9 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Performers induction.

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The King of Clubs coordinate

Jackson Browne's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master 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 Jackson Browne. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Jackson Browne in the public record

Emerging as a teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, Browne had his first successes writing songs for others. Encouraged by those successes, Browne released his self-titled debut album in 1972, which included two Top 40 hits of his own: "Doctor, My Eyes" and "Rock Me on the Water". His second album, For Everyman, was released in 1973. His third album, Late for the Sky (1974), was his most successful to that point, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart. His fourth album, The Pretender (1976), continued the pattern of each album topping the previous one by peaking at number 5 on the album chart, and included the hit singles "Here Come Those Tears Again" and "The Pretender". Browne's 1977 album Running on Empty is his signature work; it rose to number 3 on the album chart and remained there for over a year. Both a live and concept album, it explores in its songs the themes of life as a touring musician. The album produced two Top 40 singles: "Running on Empty" and "The Load-Out"/"Stay", and many of the other tracks became popular radio hits on the album-oriented rock format.

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Jackson Browne'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.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for K♣, 8♠, 2♠, 4♥, 10♠, 4♠, J♦, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

  1. Browne had successful albums through the 1980s, including the 1980 album Hold Out, which was his only number 1 album; the non-album single "Somebody's Baby", which was used in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and 1983's Lawyers in Love, which included the hit single "Tender Is the Night".
  2. Browne has released two compilation albums, The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne in 1997, and The Very Best of Jackson Browne, released in conjunction with his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2004.
  3. As of 2026, his most recent studio album is 2021's Downhill from Everywhere.
  4. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Browne 37th on its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".

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FAQ

What is Jackson Browne's birth card?
The King of Clubs. October 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 Jackson Browne's dates come from?
Birth date 1948-10-09 is the day-precision date on Jackson Browne'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, Jackson Browne) + Wikidata CC0 (Q355009). Birth date 1948-10-09 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).