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Walter Parazaider's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds
The Universal Provider
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
Walter Joseph Parazaider (March 14, 1945 – June 17, 2026) was an American woodwind musician who was a founding member of the rock band Chicago. The birth-card coordinate for March 14 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2016 Performers with Chicago induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2016 Performers — inducted member of Chicago
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Walter Parazaider's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Walter Parazaider. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.
Walter Parazaider in the public record
He was best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass and woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow. Parazaider played saxophone, flute, and clarinet, and occasionally played guitar as well. Parazaider was born in Maywood, Illinois, on March 14, 1945, and began playing the clarinet at the age of nine. As a teenager, his growing talent was being groomed for a career as a professional orchestral musician, and he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in classical clarinet performance from DePaul University. Inspired by the Beatles hit "Got to Get You Into My Life", Parazaider became enamored of the idea of creating a rock 'n' roll band with horns. Early practice sessions at Parazaider's house included guitarist Terry Kath and drummer Danny Seraphine, who were both friends during his teenage years. Another friend who became involved was future Chicago producer James William Guercio. The band, originally called The Big Thing, eventually became Chicago with the addition of Lee Loughnane on trumpet, James Pankow on trombone, Robert Lamm on keyboards, and Peter Cetera on bass.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Walter Parazaider (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Walter Parazaider's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♦ — Birth Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- J♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 2♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Skeptical Partner
- K♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Master Leader
- 6♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Responsible Mind
- Q♥ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Devoted Nurturer
- 10♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Master Builder
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Pioneer
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 9♦, 5♦, Q♦, 2♠, K♣, 6♠, 7♠, 2♣, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- Parazaider's primary musical role in the band has consisted of playing woodwinds on James Pankow's horn arrangements.
- Never a prolific writer, Parazaider's compositional contributions ("It Better End Soon: 2nd Movement", "Free Country", "Aire", "Devil's Sweet", "Window Dreamin'") were few relative to the other members.
- Parazaider performed the highly recognizable flute solo in the Chicago hit "Colour My World", which became a popular 'slow dance' song at high school proms during the 1970s.
- The band's 1973 hit "Just You 'n' Me" also features a Parazaider solo, on soprano sax.
Other inductees with this card
- Andy Taylor — 2022 Performers with Duran Duran
- Bill Haley — 1987 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Bono — 2005 Performers with U2
- Dave Mason — 2004 Performers with Traffic
- David Ruffin — 1989 Performers with The Temptations
- Donovan — 2012 Performers
- Fuzzy Haskins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Henry Fambrough — 2023 Performers with The Spinners
- Inspectah Deck — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
- Lois Reeves — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
- Michael Shrieve — 1998 Performers with Santana
- Nick Rhodes — 2022 Performers with Duran Duran
- 5 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Walter Parazaider's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. March 14 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 Walter Parazaider's dates come from?
- Birth date 1945-03-14 is the day-precision date on Walter Parazaider'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, Walter Parazaider) + Wikidata CC0 (Q7965783). Birth date 1945-03-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).