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Jimmy Merchant'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
James Edward Merchant (born February 10, 1940) is an American singer and musician. The birth-card coordinate for February 10 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1993 Performers with Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1993 Performers — inducted member of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
The 2 of Spades coordinate
Jimmy Merchant'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 Jimmy Merchant. 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.
Jimmy Merchant in the public record
He was a member of the doo-wop group The Teenagers. Merchant was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers. He retired from The Teenagers in 2005. Merchant was born on February 10, 1940, in Morrisania, Bronx, New York, due to Harlem Hospital not having enough room at that time. In September 1954, while attending Edward W. Stitt Junior High School, Merchant met Sherman Garnes and formed The Earth Angels. They then formed The Coupe De Villes and Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni joined the group. Frankie Lymon watched the show before joining the group, and they evolved to The Ermines and The Premiers before renaming themselves The Teenagers.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jimmy Merchant (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 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 Jimmy Merchant, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Jimmy Merchant'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.
Strategic thinking about resources and power
James Edward Merchant (born February 10, 1940) is an American singer and musician.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: merchant.
Also on the record
- The song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" was released in 1955.
- In 1956, Lymon left the group while Billy Lobrano join the band in 1957.
- After they have success with Lobrano, he left in 1958.
- Sherman Garnes died in 1977, and Joe Negroni died in 1978.
Other inductees with this card
- Charlie Watts — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- Cliff Burton — 2009 Performers with Metallica
- 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
- 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 Jimmy Merchant'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 Jimmy Merchant's dates come from?
- Birth date 1940-02-10 is the day-precision date on Jimmy Merchant'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, Jimmy Merchant) + Wikidata CC0 (Q11978592). Birth date 1940-02-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).