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Ric Ocasek's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

2018 Performers with The Cars

Born March 23, 1944

Died September 15, 2019

The Master Leader

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

Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek ( oh-CASS-ik), was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. The birth-card coordinate for March 23 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2018 Performers with The Cars induction.

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The King of Clubs coordinate

Ric Ocasek's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Ric Ocasek. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

Live King of Clubs meaning page

Ric Ocasek in the public record

He was the primary lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the American new wave band the Cars. In addition to his work with the Cars, Ocasek recorded seven solo studio albums. Ocasek's 1986 single, "Emotion in Motion", was a top 20 hit in the United States. Ocasek also worked as a record producer for artists such as Motion City Soundtrack, Suicide, Bad Brains, Weezer, Nada Surf, Guided by Voices and No Doubt. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars. Ocasek was born on March 23, 1944, in Baltimore. His paternal side was of Czech descent, and he grew up Catholic. When he was 16 years old, his father moved the family back to the Ocasek hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a systems analyst with NASA at the Lewis Research Center.

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

Where the record meets the 2 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 Ric Ocasek, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Ric Ocasek'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 hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

2♠ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the K♣, from the published 2 of Spades meaning

There they formed a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-style folk rock band called Milkwood.

Paired on shared wording: called, stills.

Also on the record

  1. Ocasek graduated from Maple Heights High School in 1963.
  2. He briefly attended Antioch College and Bowling Green State University, but dropped out to pursue a career in music.
  3. Ocasek met future Cars bassist Benjamin Orr in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program.
  4. He reconnected with Orr a few years later in Columbus, Ohio, and the two began performing in and booking bands together.

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FAQ

What is Ric Ocasek's birth card?
The King of Clubs. March 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 Ric Ocasek's dates come from?
Birth date 1944-03-23 is the day-precision date on Ric Ocasek'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, Ric Ocasek) + Wikidata CC0 (Q526406). Birth date 1944-03-23 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).