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Richard J. Durbin's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts
The Devoted Nurturer
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
Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. The birth-card coordinate for November 21 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a Senate seat.
The Queen of Hearts coordinate
Richard J. Durbin's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Richard J. Durbin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.
Richard J. Durbin in the public record
A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin is in his fifth Senate term and has served since 2005 as the Senate Democratic Whip (the second-highest position in Democratic leadership in the Senate) and since 2025 as the Senate minority whip. He is the longest-serving Democratic whip since the position was established in 1913. Durbin was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. After graduating from the School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center, he worked in state legal counsel throughout the 1970s. Durbin made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor of Illinois in 1978, and later maintained a private law practice and co-owned a pub in Springfield. Durbin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, representing the Springfield-based 20th congressional district.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Dick Durbin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs
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 Richard J. Durbin, and not a forecast of a Senate seat.
Cards in Richard J. Durbin's fixed path
- Q♥ — Birth Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- 9♣ — Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
- K♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Master of Thought
- 5♣ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Dynamic Innovator
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.
Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective
Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: attorney.
Also on the record
- After serving seven House terms, Durbin was elected to the U.S.
- Senate in 1996, and reelected in 2002, 2008, 2014, and 2020.
- He has served as the Senate Democratic whip since 2005—under Harry Reid until 2017, and under Chuck Schumer since 2017.
- During that time, he had two periods as Senate majority whip (from 2007 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2025), and three as minority whip (from 2005 to 2007, from 2015 to 2021, and since 2025).
Richard J. Durbin's coordinate at a glance
- Seat
- U.S. senator from Illinois (Class 2)
- Party
- Democratic
- Date of birth
- November 21, 1944
- Month and day used
- November 21 (year unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 11 + 21) = 12
- Birth card
- Queen of Hearts — The Devoted Nurturer
- Sitting senators on this card
- 2 of 99 verified
- Date agreement
- Wikipedia list, Bioguide and Wikidata P569 all read 1944-11-21
Other sitting senators with this card
One other sitting senator shares the Queen of Hearts with Richard J. Durbin — a different birthday that lands on the same calendar coordinate.
- John Kennedy — Louisiana
FAQ
- What is Richard J. Durbin's birth card?
- The Queen of Hearts. November 21 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 Richard J. Durbin's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-11-21 is the day-precision date on Wikipedia's list of current United States senators for the U.S. senator from Illinois (Class 2), matching Bioguide / congress.gov compiled birthday 1944-11-21 and Wikidata P569 1944-11-21 (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 (Dick Durbin; current senators list, match) + Wikidata CC0 (Q434804) + Bioguide (D000563) + congress.gov.