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David McCormick'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 Senate seat.
In the record
David Harold McCormick ( mǝ-KORM-ik; born August 17, 1965) is an American politician, businessman, and former Army officer serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Pennsylvania. The birth-card coordinate for August 17 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a Senate seat.
The 9 of Clubs coordinate
David McCormick'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 the Senate and not a verdict on David McCormick. 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.
David McCormick in the public record
A member of the Republican Party, he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds, from 2020 to 2022. McCormick graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1987 and served in Iraq during the Gulf War. He received the Bronze Star while serving in the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1996, McCormick earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 2005 to 2009, he held several positions in the George W. Bush administration, lastly as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. McCormick left the Bush administration in 2009 to become president of Bridgewater, a position he held until becoming co-CEO in 2017. He became its sole CEO in 2020, and stepped down from the position to run for the U.S.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Dave McCormick (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 6 of Diamonds
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 David McCormick, and not a forecast of a Senate seat.
Cards in David McCormick's fixed path
- 9♣ — Birth Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
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. All of these are fixed for life, unlike planetary period and long-range cards, which move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Generous and supportive nature with resources
A member of the Republican Party, he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds, from 2020 to 2022.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: executive, hedge.
Also on the record
- Senate in 2022.
- After a narrow loss to Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary in 2022, McCormick ran again in the 2024 U.S.
- Senate election in Pennsylvania, narrowly defeating three-term incumbent Democratic senator Bob Casey Jr.
- McCormick was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Pittsburgh area.
David McCormick's coordinate at a glance
- Seat
- U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (Class 1)
- Party
- Republican
- Date of birth
- August 17, 1965
- Month and day used
- August 17 (year unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 8 + 17) = 22
- Birth card
- 9 of Clubs — The Humanitarian Builder
- Sitting senators on this card
- 3 of 99 verified
- Date agreement
- Wikipedia list, Bioguide and Wikidata P569 all read 1965-08-17
Other sitting senators with this card
2 other sitting senators share the 9 of Clubs with David McCormick. Their birthdays differ; the month-and-day coordinate is what matches.
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand — New York
- Maria Cantwell — Washington
FAQ
- What is David McCormick's birth card?
- The 9 of Clubs. August 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Senate seat?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast elections, character, or fate.
- Where do David McCormick's dates come from?
- Birth date 1965-08-17 is the day-precision date on Wikipedia's list of current United States senators for the U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (Class 1), matching Bioguide / congress.gov compiled birthday 1965-08-17 and Wikidata P569 1965-08-17 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The three sources match. Year-only dates and 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: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Dave McCormick; current senators list, match) + Wikidata CC0 (Q5234544) + Bioguide (M001243) + congress.gov.