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Ted Budd's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs
The Creative Pioneer
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
Theodore Paul Budd (born October 21, 1971) is an American businessman and politician serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator for North Carolina. The birth-card coordinate for October 21 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a Senate seat.
The Ace of Clubs coordinate
Ted Budd's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). 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 Ted Budd. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.
Ted Budd in the public record
A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. Budd was the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in North Carolina to replace retiring Republican senator Richard Burr. He defeated the Democratic nominee, Cheri Beasley, and took office on January 3, 2023. Budd is set to become North Carolina's senior senator when Thom Tillis leaves office in January 2027. Theodore Paul Budd was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on October 21, 1971. When he was young, his family moved to a 300-acre (120 ha) farm on the Yadkin River in Davie County, outside Advance, where they raise cattle and chickens. His father, Richard, owned a facility-services company. Budd attended Summit School, a private school in Winston-Salem, before attending Davie County High School, graduating in 1990.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ted Budd (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Ted Budd's fixed path
- A♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Pioneer
- 2♥ — Karma — Environment: The Loving Partner
- 10♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Completed Mind
- Q♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Devoted Nurturer
- 4♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Emotional Foundation Builder
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for A♣, 2♥, 10♠, Q♥, 4♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Senate seat.
Also on the record
- He then attended Appalachian State University, where received a Bachelor of Science in business administration in 1994.
- Budd later received a master of theology from the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1998 and a master of business administration from the Wake Forest University School of Business in 2007.
- Budd owns a gun store in Rural Hall, North Carolina.
- The father of home-schooled children, he also served as a board member for North Carolinians for Home Education.
Ted Budd's coordinate at a glance
- Seat
- U.S. senator from North Carolina (Class 3)
- Party
- Republican
- Date of birth
- October 21, 1971
- Month and day used
- October 21 (year unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 10 + 21) = 14
- Birth card
- Ace of Clubs — The Creative Pioneer
- Sitting senators on this card
- 2 of 99 verified
- Date agreement
- Wikipedia list, Bioguide and Wikidata P569 all read 1971-10-21
Other sitting senators with this card
One other sitting senator shares the Ace of Clubs with Ted Budd — a different birthday that lands on the same calendar coordinate.
- Jon Husted — Ohio
FAQ
- What is Ted Budd's birth card?
- The Ace of Clubs. October 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 Ted Budd's dates come from?
- Birth date 1971-10-21 is the day-precision date on Wikipedia's list of current United States senators for the U.S. senator from North Carolina (Class 3), matching Bioguide / congress.gov compiled birthday 1971-10-21 and Wikidata P569 1971-10-21 (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 (Ted Budd; current senators list, match) + Wikidata CC0 (Q27733792) + Bioguide (B001305) + congress.gov.