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Jackie Gleason's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Herbert John Gleason (born Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.; February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987), known as Jackie Gleason, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One". The birth-card coordinate for February 26 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1960 Best Actor in a Musical (Take Me Along) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1960 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Take Me Along as Sid Davis
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Jackie Gleason's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 a Tony Award and not a verdict on Jackie Gleason. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Jackie Gleason in the public record
He developed a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city bus driver character Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. The series originated in New York City, but filming moved to Miami Beach, Florida, in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there. Among his notable film roles were Minnesota Fats in 1961's The Hustler (co-starring with Paul Newman) and Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy from 1977 to 1983 (co-starring Burt Reynolds). Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career during the 1950s and 1960s, producing a series of bestselling "mood music" albums. His first album Music for Lovers Only still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first ten albums sold over a million copies each. His output includes more than 20 singles, nearly 60 long-playing record albums, and more than 40 CDs.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jackie Gleason (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen 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 Jackie Gleason, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Jackie Gleason's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Restless Mind
- 4♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 10♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Community Heart
- 9♠ — PRC Life Spread — Mars: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♥ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Loving Partner
- K♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Compassionate King
- K♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Wealthy King
- 6♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Devoted Caregiver
- 4♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Systematic Builder
- 2♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Financial 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.
Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance
Herbert John Gleason (born Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.; February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987), known as Jackie Gleason, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One".
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: writer.
Also on the record
- During his career, Gleason received a nomination for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Primetime Emmy Awards.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Barnard Hughes — 1978 Best Actor in a Play (Da)
- Ben Vereen — 1973 Best Actor in a Musical (Pippin)
- George Hearn — 1984 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
- Helen Hayes — 1947 Best Actress in a Play (Happy Birthday); 1958 Best Actress in a Play (Time Remembered)
- James Naughton — 1990 Best Actor in a Musical (City of Angels); 1997 Best Actor in a Musical (Chicago)
- Marcia Gay Harden — 2009 Best Actress in a Play (God of Carnage)
- Margaret Leighton — 1957 Best Actress in a Play (Separate Tables); 1962 Best Actress in a Play (The Night of the Iguana)
- Robert Alda — 1951 Best Actor in a Musical (Guys and Dolls)
- Victoria Clark — 2005 Best Actress in a Musical (The Light in the Piazza); 2023 Best Actress in a Musical (Kimberly Akimbo)
FAQ
- What is Jackie Gleason's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. February 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Jackie Gleason's dates come from?
- Birth date 1916-02-26 is the day-precision date on Jackie Gleason's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q454200) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jackie Gleason). Birth date 1916-02-26 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).