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Reeves Gabrels's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

2019 Performers with The Cure

Born June 4, 1956

The Wealthy King

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

Reeves Gabrels (born June 4, 1956) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. The birth-card coordinate for June 4 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Performers with The Cure induction.

Rock Hall record

The King of Diamonds coordinate

Reeves Gabrels's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 Reeves Gabrels. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

Live King of Diamonds meaning page

Reeves Gabrels in the public record

A member of The Cure since 2012, Gabrels is also known for his work with David Bowie and Tin Machine from 1988 to 1999. He also fronts the band Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends, which is based in Nashville. As a guitarist, Gabrels is recognized for his virtuosity and versatility, and been praised for his ability to "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most." He has been characterized as "one of the most daring rock-guitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix". Reeves Gabrels was born in Staten Island, New York on June 4, 1956. His mother Claire was a typist, and his father Carl was a part-time jazz musician and worked as a deckhand on tugboats in New York Harbor. Gabrels started playing guitar at age 13, and the following year his father arranged for lessons with his friend Turk Van Lake. Van Lake was a professional musician who had played with Benny Goodman and others. After high school, Gabrels attended the Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs

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 Reeves Gabrels, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Reeves Gabrels'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.

You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player.

8♣ — Life Spread — Saturn, fixed to the K♦, from the published 8 of Clubs meaning

Gabrels started playing guitar at age 13, and the following year his father arranged for lessons with his friend Turk Van Lake.

Paired on shared wording: following, playing. This line comes from the Saturn position of the K♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. He took lessons from jazz guitarist John Scofield.
  2. Gabrels then moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music, though he did not graduate.
  3. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Gabrels was a member of bands including The Dark, Life on Earth, The Atom Said, Rubber Rodeo, The Bentmen, Deaf School, Too Happy, and Modern Farmer.
  4. His first professional recording was in 1983 with the Christopher Jones Band.

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FAQ

What is Reeves Gabrels's birth card?
The King of Diamonds. June 4 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 Reeves Gabrels's dates come from?
Birth date 1956-06-04 is the day-precision date on Reeves Gabrels'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, Reeves Gabrels) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2662821). Birth date 1956-06-04 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).