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Philip Selway's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs
The Humanitarian Builder
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
Philip James Selway (born 23 May 1967) is an English musician and the drummer of the rock band Radiohead. The birth-card coordinate for May 23 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Performers with Radiohead induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2019 Performers — inducted member of Radiohead
The 9 of Clubs coordinate
Philip Selway's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). 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 Philip Selway. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.
Philip Selway in the public record
He combines rock drumming with electronic percussion. Selway was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019. In the 2000s, with musicians including the Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien, Selway toured and recorded with the 7 Worlds Collide project. In 2010, he released his debut solo album, Familial, comprising folk music. It was followed by Weatherhouse in 2014 and Strange Dance in 2023. Selway also composed the soundtrack for the 2017 film Let Me Go. In 2023, he played drums with Lanterns on the Lake. Selway is a supporter of the mental health charity Samaritans.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Philip Selway (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Spades
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 Philip Selway, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Philip Selway's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♣ — Birth Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♠ — 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 name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it. You have the gift of saying what needs to be said, even when it's hard. You're the one who speaks up when others stay silent.
O'Brien said Yorke's voice and Selway's drumming were the most distinctive parts of Radiohead, saying: "Philip has this incredible groove, and he has this weight to what he does ...
Paired on shared wording: said, saying. This line comes from the Pluto position of the 9♣'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- Selway was born on 23 May 1967, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
- He started learning to play drums and guitar at the age of 15 for "the social cachet and love of music".
- His earliest influences were Joy Division, the Clash and the Velvet Underground.
- The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys.
Other inductees with this card
- Albert King — 2013 Performers
- Allen Collins — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Belinda Carlisle — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
- Bernie Leadon — 1998 Performers with Eagles
- Björn Ulvaeus — 2010 Performers with ABBA
- Brian May — 2001 Performers with Queen
- Dennis Dunaway — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
- Graham Simpson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
- Jason Cooper — 2019 Performers with The Cure
- Joey Kramer — 2001 Performers with Aerosmith
- John Lydon — 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols
- Keith Godchaux — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- 11 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Philip Selway's birth card?
- The 9 of Clubs. May 23 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 Philip Selway's dates come from?
- Birth date 1967-05-23 is the day-precision date on Philip Selway'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, Philip Selway) + Wikidata CC0 (Q842263). Birth date 1967-05-23 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).