Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

In the record

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929. The birth-card coordinate for January 15 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 TIME Person of the Year — Martin Luther King Jr..

TIME Person of the Year record

• Martin Luther King Jr. — 1963 TIME Person of the Year — Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “Martin Luther King Jr.” (Martin Luther King Jr. is the sole named human listed for that year). Martin Luther King Jr. is listed as the sole named human for each TIME Person of the Year year in this pack. The harvested English Wikipedia title for Martin Luther King Jr. matches the list name. Martin Luther King Jr. is Wikidata Q8027. Honor years kept for Martin Luther King Jr.: 1963. Choice labels kept: 1963 Martin Luther King Jr.. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Wikipedia infobox day is 1929-01-15; Wikidata P569 is 1929-01-15 (match). TIME vault (https://time.com/vault/) is context for Martin Luther King Jr.'s honor and is not a date source. January 15 maps to Q♦ for Martin Luther King Jr.. Wikidata P570 lists April 4, 1968 (1968-04-04) as a public death date for Martin Luther King Jr.. The Wikipedia REST summary used for Martin Luther King Jr. is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.. No childhood, private address, or invented birthday is added for Martin Luther King Jr..

The Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929 (1929-01-15). Month 1 and day 15 give solar value 38, which is the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1929 is unused, so Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1929 birth year does not move the card. The Queen of Diamonds does not predict a TIME Person of the Year selection and is not a verdict on Martin Luther King Jr.. Quoted system copy for the Queen of Diamonds, not a biography of Martin Luther King Jr.: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety. You create material security and abundance for those around you. You're generous, nurturing, and capable. You make others feel materially safe. Harvested gifts listed for the Queen of Diamonds: Natural ability to provide and nurture materially; Generosity and abundance consciousness; Talent for creating financial safety for others; Wisdom about resources and needs. Harvested life-direction line for the Queen of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that true nurturing includes letting people become independent. You're learning to support without controlling.

Live Queen of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

Martin Luther King Jr. in the public record

He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans. A Black church leader, King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and was the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), leading the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helping organize nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches during the 1965 Selma voting rights movement. There were dramatic standoffs with segregationist authorities, who often responded violently. The civil rights movement achieved pivotal legislative gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. King was jailed several times. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Martin Luther King Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Spades

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 Martin Luther King Jr., and not a forecast of the cover of Time.

Courage to speak difficult truths

A Black church leader, King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: labor.

Also on the record

1. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of COINTELPRO from 1963.
2. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, spied on his personal life, and secretly recorded him.
3. In 1964, the FBI mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
4. King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.

Other TIME Person of the Year people with this card

• No other person in this set shares the Queen of Diamonds.

FAQ

What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth card?

The Queen of Diamonds. January 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Martin Luther King Jr.'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 Martin Luther King Jr.'s dates and TIME Person of the Year credits come from?

Birth date 1929-01-15 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Martin Luther King Jr., 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 1963 TIME Person of the Year — Martin Luther King Jr.. 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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