Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Lars Ulrich's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts
The Restless Heart
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
Lars Ulrich (Danish: [ˈlɑːs ˈulˀʁek]; born 26 December 1963) is a Danish musician who is the drummer and a founding member of American heavy metal band Metallica. The birth-card coordinate for December 26 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Performers with Metallica induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2009 Performers — inducted member of Metallica
The 5 of Hearts coordinate
Lars Ulrich's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). 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 Lars Ulrich. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.
Lars Ulrich in the public record
Along with James Hetfield, Ulrich has songwriting credits on almost all of the band's songs, and the two of them are the only remaining original members of the band. The son and grandson respectively of tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis in his youth and moved to Los Angeles at age 16 to train professionally. However, rather than playing tennis, Ulrich began playing drums. After publishing an advertisement in The Recycler, Ulrich met Hetfield and formed Metallica. Ulrich was born on 26 December 1963 into an upper-middle-class family in Gentofte, Denmark; the son of Lone (née Sylvester-Hvid) and tennis player Torben Ulrich. The family lived at Lundevangsvej 12 in Hellerup. His paternal grandfather was tennis player Einer Ulrich. His paternal grandmother, Ulla Meyer, was from a Jewish family; as a result, Ulrich's grandfather was persecuted by the Nazis during World War II.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Lars Ulrich (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Lars Ulrich's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♥ — Birth Card: The Restless Heart
- 5♣ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Innovator
- 4♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Foundation Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Foundation Builder
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 5♥, 5♣, 4♦, 5♦, 3♣, 9♦, 3♠, 9♥, 7♣, Q♠, J♣, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- Saxophonist Dexter Gordon was Ulrich's godfather, and he is a childhood friend of musician Neneh Cherry.
- In February 1973, Ulrich's father obtained passes for five of his friends to a Deep Purple concert held in the same Copenhagen stadium as one of his tennis tournaments.
- When one of the friends could not go, they gave their ticket to the nine-year-old Lars, who was mesmerized by the performance and bought the band's album Fireball the next day.
- The concert and album had a considerable impact on Ulrich, inspiring the start of his music career.
Other inductees with this card
- Abdul "Duke" Fakir — 1990 Performers with The Four Tops
- Grace Slick — 1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane
- Matt Cameron — 2017 Performers with Pearl Jam; 2025 Performers with Soundgarden
- Otis Williams — 1989 Performers with The Temptations
- Randy Newman — 2013 Performers
- Timothy B. Schmit — 1998 Performers with Eagles
FAQ
- What is Lars Ulrich's birth card?
- The 5 of Hearts. December 26 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 Lars Ulrich's dates come from?
- Birth date 1963-12-26 is the day-precision date on Lars Ulrich'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, Lars Ulrich) + Wikidata CC0 (Q106193). Birth date 1963-12-26 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).