Declaration signer · birth-card coordinate
Philip Livingston's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict the Declaration or a revolution.
In the record
Philip Livingston (January 15, 1716 – June 12, 1778) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and slave trader from New York City. The birth-card coordinate for January 15 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Philip Livingston's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous 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 Declaration and not a verdict on Philip Livingston. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
Philip Livingston in the public record
He represented New York at the October 1774 First Continental Congress, where he favored imposing economic sanctions upon Great Britain as a way of pressuring the British Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts. Livingston was also a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, and signed the Declaration of Independence. Livingston was born in Albany, New York, on January 15, 1716, the fourth surviving son of Philip Livingston (1686–1749), 2nd Lord of the Manor, and Catherine Van Brugh Livingston, the daughter of New York Mayor Pieter Van Brugh. Along with his brother, William Livingston (1723–1790), he grew up in the Albany area, dividing his time between his father's Albany townhouse and the manor house in Linlithgo, at the junction of the Roeliff Jansen Kill and the Hudson River. Livingston graduated from Yale College in 1737. Following graduation, he returned to Albany to undergo a mercantile apprenticeship under his father. Through his father's influence, he obtained clerkships in Albany's municipal government. Livingston subsequently moved to New York City and pursued a career in the import business, trading with the British West Indies.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Philip Livingston (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen 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 Philip Livingston, and not a forecast of the Revolution.
Cards in Philip Livingston's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 7♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Analytical Creator
- J♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Businessman
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: 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. 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.
Natural ability to provide and nurture materially
Philip Livingston (January 15, 1716 – June 12, 1778) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and slave trader from New York City.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: merchant.
Also on the record
- During King George's War, Livingston made a fortune provisioning British forces and engaging in privateering.
- He also speculated heavily in real estate and the slave trade, financing at least fifteen slave-trading voyages, which transported hundreds of enslaved Africans to New York.
- He purchased a stone townhouse on Duke Street, Manhattan, a forty-acre estate in Brooklyn Heights and personally owned several slaves, one of whom ran away in November 1752; Livingston published advertisements in several city newspapers, including the New-York Mercury and New-York Gazette, offering a reward for his recapture.
- He also served as an alderman of the East Ward from 1754 to 1762.
Other verified signers with this card
- Robert Treat Paine — Queen of Diamonds
FAQ
- What is Philip Livingston's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. January 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a signer or a revolution?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast character, politics, or fate.
- Where do Philip Livingston's dates come from?
- Birth date 1716-01-15 is the NARA Signers Factsheet day. Wikipedia's infobox records 1716-01-15. The month and day match Wikipedia. Bioguide is a corroborating congressional biography. Wikidata P569 is a precision=11 QA check only — it is not the public date.
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Sources: NARA Signers Factsheet (1/15/1716) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Philip Livingston; cross-check match) + Bioguide (L000372). Wikidata QA only: Q714967, precision 11, match.