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Roger McGuinn's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

1991 Performers with The Byrds

Born July 13, 1942

The Financial Partner

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

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942) is an American musician, best known for being the leader of the Byrds. The birth-card coordinate for July 13 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Performers with The Byrds induction.

Rock Hall record

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Roger McGuinn's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Roger McGuinn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Roger McGuinn in the public record

He has released ten albums and collaborated with many other performers, among them Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Chris Hillman. The Rickenbacker 12-string guitar is his signature instrument. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 along with The Byrds. McGuinn was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, son of James Joseph McGuinn Jr (b. 1909) and Dorothy Irene (b. 1911), daughter of engineer Louis Heyn. His parents worked in journalism and public relations, and during his childhood, they wrote a bestseller titled Parents Can't Win. He attended the Latin School of Chicago.

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Roger McGuinn'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.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 2♦, A♦, 6♣, 5♣, 4♣, 5♥, J♠, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

  1. He became interested in music after hearing Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (a song that he frequently performs as a part of his autobiographical live shows), and asked his parents to buy a guitar for him.
  2. Around the same time, he was also influenced by inidivdual performers and groups such as Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent and the Everly Brothers.
  3. In 1957, he enrolled as a student at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, where he learned the five-string banjo and 12-string guitar.
  4. After graduation, McGuinn performed solo at various coffeehouses on the folk music circuit where he was hired as a sideman by the Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and Judy Collins and other folk music artists in the same vein.

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FAQ

What is Roger McGuinn's birth card?
The 2 of Diamonds. July 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 Roger McGuinn's dates come from?
Birth date 1942-07-13 is the day-precision date on Roger McGuinn'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, Roger McGuinn) + Wikidata CC0 (Q449140). Birth date 1942-07-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).