Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Peter Cetera's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
The Creative Messenger
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
Peter Paul Cetera Jr. ( sə-TERR-ə; born September 13, 1944) is an American retired musician best known for being a frontman, vocalist, and bassist for the American rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985. The birth-card coordinate for September 13 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2016 Performers with Chicago induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2016 Performers — inducted member of Chicago
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Peter Cetera's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). 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 Peter Cetera. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.
Peter Cetera in the public record
His career as a recording artist encompasses 17 albums with Chicago (Chicago Transit Authority through Chicago 17) and eight solo studio albums. As a lead singer/vocal artist he has had four number one songs on the Billboard Hot 100, two during his tenure with Chicago and two during his solo career. Of those four songs he wrote or co-wrote three. As a solo artist, Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles, including two that reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1986, "Glory of Love" and "The Next Time I Fall". "Glory of Love", the theme song from the film The Karate Kid Part II (1986), was co-written by Cetera, David Foster, and Diane Nini and was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for best original song from a motion picture. In 1987, Cetera received an ASCAP award for "Glory of Love" in the category "Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures". His performance on "Glory of Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop male vocal. That same year Cetera and Amy Grant, who performed as a duet on "The Next Time I Fall", were nominated for a Grammy Award for best vocal performance by a pop duo or group.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Peter Cetera (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 of Hearts
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 Peter Cetera, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Peter Cetera's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♥ — Life Spread — 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 make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.
As a solo artist, Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles, including two that reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1986, "Glory of Love" and "The Next Time I Fall".
Paired on shared wording: including, love.
Also on the record
- Besides Foster and Grant, Cetera has collaborated throughout his career with other recording artists from various genres of music.
- His songs have been featured in soundtracks for movies and television.
- With "If You Leave Me Now", a song written and sung by Cetera on the group's tenth album, Chicago received its first Grammy Award.
- It was also the group's first number one single.
Other inductees with this card
- Adrian Smith — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Andrew Woolfolk — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Ann Wilson — 2013 Performers with Heart
- Aretha Franklin — 1987 Performers
- Bill Pinkney — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
- Billy Davenport — 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Bobby Byrd — 2012 Performers with The Famous Flames
- Daryl Hall — 2014 Performers with Hall & Oates
- Elton John — 1994 Performers
- Geezer Butler — 2006 Performers with Black Sabbath
- Gem Archer — 2026 Performers with Oasis
- Hilton Valentine — 1994 Performers with The Animals
- 13 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Peter Cetera's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. September 13 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 Peter Cetera's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-09-13 is the day-precision date on Peter Cetera'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, Peter Cetera) + Wikidata CC0 (Q468815). Birth date 1944-09-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).