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Paul Kantner's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane

Born March 17, 1941

Died January 28, 2016

The Generous 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

Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. The birth-card coordinate for March 17 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane induction.

Rock Hall record

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Paul Kantner's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous 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 Paul Kantner. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

Live 6 of Diamonds meaning page

Paul Kantner in the public record

He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band. Jefferson Airplane was formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late-1960s period. In 1970, while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded the album Blows Against the Empire, which was co-credited to both Paul Kantner and "Jefferson Starship". Jefferson Airplane continued to record and perform until 1973. Kantner revived the Jefferson Starship name in 1974 and continued to record and perform with them through 1984. He later led a reformed Jefferson Starship from 1992 until his death in 2016.

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

Where the record meets the 6 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 Paul Kantner, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Paul Kantner'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.

Generous and supportive nature with resources

6♦ — Birth Card, from the published 6 of Diamonds meaning

He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founder.

Also on the record

  1. Kantner had the longest continuous membership with the band, with 19 years in the original run of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship and 24 years in the revived Jefferson Starship.
  2. At times, he was the only founding Jefferson Airplane member to remain in Jefferson Starship.
  3. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane in 1996.

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FAQ

What is Paul Kantner's birth card?
The 6 of Diamonds. March 17 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 Paul Kantner's dates come from?
Birth date 1941-03-17 is the day-precision date on Paul Kantner'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, Paul Kantner) + Wikidata CC0 (Q280657). Birth date 1941-03-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).