Declaration signer · birth-card coordinate
Robert Treat Paine'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
Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was a lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence as a representative of the colonial era Province of Massachusetts Bay, one of the original Thirteen Colonies. The birth-card coordinate for March 11 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Robert Treat Paine'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 Robert Treat Paine. 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.
Robert Treat Paine in the public record
He served as the state's first attorney general and as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Paine was born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in British America, on March 11, 1731, one of five children of the Rev. Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Paine. His father was pastor of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Weymouth but moved his family to Boston in 1730 and subsequently became a merchant there. His mother was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Treat, whose father Maj. Robert Treat was one of the principal founders of Newark, New Jersey, and later a governor of Connecticut. Robert Treat Paine's Treat family had a long history in the British colonies and his Paine family, in particular, can trace a lineage back to the Mayflower.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert Treat Paine (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen of Diamonds
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Cards in Robert Treat Paine'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
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- Q♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wise Guide
- 8♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Businessman
- 10♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealthy Master
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Mars: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 2♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Skeptical Partner
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
His father was pastor of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Weymouth but moved his family to Boston in 1730 and subsequently became a merchant there.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: merchant.
Also on the record
- Paine attended the Boston Latin School and then entered Harvard College at age 14; he graduated in 1749 at age 18.
- After graduating from Harvard in 1749, Paine taught school for several years, first back at Boston Latin and later in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.
- Paine also attempted a merchant career, with journeys to the Carolinas, the Azores, and Spain as well as a whaling voyage to Greenland.
- He began the study of law in 1755 with his mother's cousin in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Other verified signers with this card
- Philip Livingston — Queen of Diamonds
FAQ
- What is Robert Treat Paine's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. March 11 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 Robert Treat Paine's dates come from?
- Birth date 1731-03-11 is the NARA Signers Factsheet day. Wikipedia's infobox records 1731-03-11. 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 (3/11/1731) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert Treat Paine; cross-check match) + Bioguide (P000031). Wikidata QA only: Q743472, precision 11, match.