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Jim Banks's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
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
James Edward Banks (born July 16, 1979) is an American politician and naval officer serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Indiana. The birth-card coordinate for July 16 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a Senate seat.
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Jim Banks's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing 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 the Senate and not a verdict on Jim Banks. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Jim Banks in the public record
A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Indiana's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2025 and an Indiana state senator from 2010 to 2016. A graduate of Indiana University Bloomington, Banks served on the Whitley County Council before being elected to the State Senate in 2010. During his tenure, he joined the United States Navy Reserve. In 2016, Banks was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was reelected in 2018, 2020, and 2022. In 2021, he voted to object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. After incumbent U.S. senator Mike Braun declined to run for reelection, Banks announced he would run in the 2024 election to replace him.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jim Banks (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace 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 Jim Banks, and not a forecast of a Senate seat.
Cards in Jim Banks's fixed path
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
- 2♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Truth 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. 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.
Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth
During his tenure, he joined the United States Navy Reserve.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: navy.
Also on the record
- After winning the Republican nomination unopposed, he defeated Democratic nominee Valerie McCray in the general election.
- Banks was born on July 16, 1979, in Columbia City, Indiana.
- He graduated in 2004 from Indiana University Bloomington with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and later received a Master of Business Administration from Grace College & Seminary.
- Banks worked in the real estate and construction industry in Fort Wayne, Indiana, before serving in elected office.
Jim Banks's coordinate at a glance
- Seat
- U.S. senator from Indiana (Class 1)
- Party
- Republican
- Date of birth
- July 16, 1979
- Month and day used
- July 16 (year unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 7 + 16) = 25
- Birth card
- Queen of Clubs — The Nurturing Leader
- Sitting senators on this card
- 5 of 99 verified
- Date agreement
- Wikipedia list, Bioguide and Wikidata P569 all read 1979-07-16
Other sitting senators with this card
4 other sitting senators share the Queen of Clubs with Jim Banks. Their birthdays differ; the month-and-day coordinate is what matches.
- Mike Crapo — Idaho
- Jeanne Shaheen — New Hampshire
- Bill Hagerty — Tennessee
- Tim Kaine — Virginia
FAQ
- What is Jim Banks's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. July 16 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 Jim Banks's dates come from?
- Birth date 1979-07-16 is the day-precision date on Wikipedia's list of current United States senators for the U.S. senator from Indiana (Class 1), matching Bioguide / congress.gov compiled birthday 1979-07-16 and Wikidata P569 1979-07-16 (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 (Jim Banks; current senators list, match) + Wikidata CC0 (Q16146788) + Bioguide (B001299) + congress.gov.