TIME Person of the Year · named human · birth-card coordinate
Bill Clinton's Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs
The Analytical Creator
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a TIME Person of the Year.
In the record
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979, the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and governor again from 1983 to 1992. Bill Clinton was born August 19, 1946. The birth-card coordinate for August 19 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Bill Clinton's 1992 TIME Person of the Year — Bill Clinton; 1998 TIME Person of the Year — Bill Clinton (shared).
TIME Person of the Year record
- Bill Clinton — 1992 TIME Person of the Year — Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton — 1998 TIME Person of the Year — Bill Clinton · shared named human
Bill Clinton's 1992 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “Bill Clinton” (Bill Clinton is the sole named human listed for that year). Bill Clinton's 1998 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “Bill Clinton” (Bill Clinton is one of the named humans listed for that year). Bill Clinton shares at least one TIME Person of the Year year in this pack with another named human. The harvested English Wikipedia title for Bill Clinton matches the list name. Bill Clinton is Wikidata Q1124. Honor years kept for Bill Clinton: 1992, 1998. Choice labels kept: 1992 Bill Clinton; 1998 Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton's Wikipedia infobox day is 1946-08-19; Wikidata P569 is 1946-08-19 (match). TIME vault (https://time.com/vault/) is context for Bill Clinton's honor and is not a date source. August 19 maps to 7♣ for Bill Clinton. This page stores no day-precision Wikidata P570 death date for Bill Clinton. The Wikipedia REST summary used for Bill Clinton is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton. No childhood, private address, or invented birthday is added for Bill Clinton.
The 7 of Clubs coordinate
Bill Clinton was born August 19, 1946 (1946-08-19). Month 8 and day 19 give solar value 20, which is the 7 of Clubs (The Analytical Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1946 is unused, so Bill Clinton's 1946 birth year does not move the card. The 7 of Clubs does not predict a TIME Person of the Year selection and is not a verdict on Bill Clinton. Quoted system copy for the 7 of Clubs, not a biography of Bill Clinton: You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it. Your mind is sharp, questioning, skeptical. You see through illusions and can identify patterns others miss. You're the critical thinker. Harvested gifts listed for the 7 of Clubs: Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition; Ability to see through surface explanations; Critical thinking and intellectual honesty; Natural skepticism that prevents self-deception. Harvested life-direction line for the 7 of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that perfect thinking doesn't exist. You're learning to act despite uncertainty, to trust process over perfect analysis.
Wikipedia summary used as source_text
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979, the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and governor again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist Third Way political philosophy became known as Clintonism, which defined his presidency and the succeeding decades of Democratic Party into the 21st century.
Bill Clinton in the public record
A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979, the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and governor again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist Third Way political philosophy became known as Clintonism, which defined his presidency and the succeeding decades of Democratic Party into the 21st century. Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968, and later from Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor. As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association. Running as a "New Democrat", Clinton was elected president in the 1992 election, defeating the incumbent Republican president George H. W. Bush, and the independent businessman Ross Perot.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bill Clinton (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 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 Bill Clinton, and not a forecast of the cover of Time.
Cards in Bill Clinton's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 7♣ — Birth Card: The Analytical Creator
- J♠ — Karma — Environment: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Businessman
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- J♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- K♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 7♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: lawyer.
Also on the record
- He became the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation and the youngest to serve two full terms.
- Clinton presided over the longest American period of peacetime economic expansion at the time.
- He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act but failed to pass his plan for national health care reform, and accepted a controversial compromise policy to his original plan to allow gay and lesbian servicemembers serve openly in the military.
- Starting in the mid-1990s, after Democrats were soundly defeated in the 1994 midterms, he began an ideological evolution as he became much more conservative in his domestic policy, advocating for and signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act and Republican-led financial deregulation measures, while still championing liberal policy such as the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Other TIME Person of the Year people with this card
- Ken Starr — 1998 TIME Person of the Year — Ken Starr (shared)
FAQ
- What is Bill Clinton's birth card?
- The 7 of Clubs. August 19 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Bill Clinton's year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a TIME Person of the Year?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast magazine covers, character, or fate.
- Where do Bill Clinton's dates and TIME Person of the Year credits come from?
- Birth date 1946-08-19 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Bill Clinton, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia TIME Person of the Year list. Duals are split per named human. Abstractions, machines, and groups-as-concepts are omitted. The honor line is 1992 TIME Person of the Year — Bill Clinton; 1998 TIME Person of the Year — Bill Clinton (shared). TIME vault is context only and is not used as a date source. 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 (TIME Person of the Year list, Bill Clinton) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1124). Birth date 1946-08-19 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match). TIME vault (time.com/vault) is context only and is not a date source.