Welcome to issue 40 of Suited & Connected©! 😊😊😊

CrownLine, an emerging relationship analytics company, through its soon-to-be-launched CROWNLINE Community platform, is making available tools and a ‘playbook’ that enable functional understanding of the CROWNLINE Method, which can help an individual identify people to connect with to attain a happier and more prosperous life.

The CROWNLINE Method provides for actionable insights according to birthdates, revealing which individuals are best to link up with— be it a friend, mentor, coach/trainer, babysitter/nanny/caretaker, lawyer, wealth management advisor, wellness and healthcare expert, veterinarian, teacher, business associate, sports teammate, or even a soulmate.

CROWNLINE Method, founded by Todd Anthony Person, fuses elements from mathematics (e.g. Fibonacci sequences, sacred geometry), a deck of playing cards, neuroscience, psychology, and astrology. Birthdates correlate to certain numbers and suits on the cards - and there are identifiable patterns found via algorithms in which certain cards match well or, conversely, are divisive when engaged with other cards.

Just as there are different symbols and diagrams used in geometry, chemistry, and engineering, in the CROWNLINE Method a regular deck of playing cards with its Symbols (Suits), Numbers and Colors all have a meaning in providing relationship compatibility insights regarding a particular person at hand, according to their birthday. Card alignment can manifest in a variety of forms:

• Exact same cards (e.g., 3 of Diamonds to 3 of Diamonds)

• Matching one number (e.g., 3 of Spades, 3 of Hearts)

• Matching a same-suit (e.g., 3 of Clubs, 9 of Clubs)

• Being suited and connected (e.g. 3 of Diamonds to 4 of Diamonds) in their first card called ‘the birth card’ or their second card known as the ‘astrological ruling card’

• Additionally, CROWNLINE Method analysis extends beyond the individual’s birthday and associated cards; ‘Family Tree’ chemistry, which includes CROWNLINE Method analysis of birthdays and associated cards of parents and child, can identify alignment, dis-alignment or neutral alignment. The boost associated with alignment can offer an offspring heightened performance, fame and success.

In this 40th issue of Suited & Connected©, we examine key birthday chemistry and card alignments for Kris Kristofferson, a beloved actor and country music singer-songwriter, who passed away at age 88 in Maui, on Sept. 28.

Kris Kristofferson was a one-of-a-kind man and entertainer. He changed the language of country music, with extraordinary internal rhymes, Shakespearean iambic pentameter, and socially progressive subject matters that found the personal within the political. “He is a poet rather than a musician, more concerned with interpretation than with quality of voice," The New York Times wrote about Kristofferson in a 1970 profile. "He is at once blunt and mystical, above petty prejudices, strongly appealing to both the campus and to intellectual sets. He is an important link between country, pop and underground music."

Before revealing some intriguing card alignment patterns pertaining to Kristofferson’s personal life as well as his artistic song-writing and acting career, it’s fitting to share just how dynamic a man Kris Kristofferson was. His net worth upon his death is estimated to be $50 million; but more than being monetarily robust, the consensus is Kristofferson lived ‘a rich life’ — revered and respected for his many talents.

Kris Kristofferson was — and perhaps always will remain to certain people he connected with — a renaissance man. He was: an Oxford scholar, a defensive back, a bartender, a Golden Gloves boxer, a gandy dancer, a forest-fighter, a road crew member, and an Army Ranger who flew helicopters. But wait, there’s more! He was a peacenik, a revolutionary, an actor, a superstar, a Casanova, and a family man. He was almost a teacher at West Point, though he gave that up to become a Nashville songwriting bum — so says the writer of his biography on the Kris Kristofferson official web site.

In Nashville, Kristofferson submitted songs he wrote while working as a night janitor at Columbia studios, including "For the Good Times" and "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down." Originally recorded by singer Bill Nash in 1968, "For the Good Times" didn't achieve mainstream success until Ray Price released his version in June 1970; shortly after the song appeared on Kristofferson's debut album in April of that year. The track earned a Grammy nod for best country song in 1972 and famously covered by soul music icon Al Green. Penned by Kristofferson and also recorded for his first album, "Sunday Mornin' Coming' Down" captured the attention of Nashville crooner Ray Stevens and country music legend Johnny Cash. Cash's rendition for The Johnny Cash Show live album won song of the year at the CMA Awards in 1970 and reached No. 1 on Billboard’s country music chart. 

In a 2006 interview with The Associated Press, Kristofferson said he might not have had a career without Johnny Cash. “Shaking his hand when I was still in the Army backstage at the Grand Ole Opry…It was electric. He kind of took me under his wing before he cut any of my songs. He cut my first record that was record of the year. He put me on stage the first time.”

In the '70s, Kristofferson continued to release albums and singles as a recording artist, among which were "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)" and the two-time Grammy nominated song "Why Me." Kristofferson also collaborated with country singer Rita Coolidge — his second wife — on several joint albums. The pair won two Grammys for 1973's "From the Bottle to the Bottom" and their 1975 rendition of Clyde McPhatter's 1962 hit "Lover Please."

In an interview reflecting on their split, Coolidge said her recording career took off while Kristofferson’s stalled, and that he focused more on his acting. In her 2016 memoir Delta Lady, Coolidge detailed Kris's struggles with alcoholism and infidelity. One of those infidelities seems to be with Barbra Streisand. The star singer-actress, in her tell all book My Name is Barbra, recalled even before they acted together in A Star is Born, that she had noticed Kristofferson ‘looking incredibly sexy” during a performance at the Troubador club in West Hollywood. After that initial spark, Streisand wrote ,the pair began seeing one another in what seemed to be a pretty passionate relationship. Streisand wrote, “He gave me hickeys on my neck. Thank God I had a two-piece bathing suit by Rudi Gernreich with a turtleneck top to hide them.”

When it came to love, the third time was the charm for Kris Kristofferson, fresh off his second marriage to Rita Coolidge. Kristofferson met Lisa Meyers — then a law student at Pepperdine University — in 1982 at a Malibu gym.

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Kris Kristofferson leaves a legacy as a poet, songwriter, musician, actor, son, husband and father. In addition to the five children Kristofferson had with his wife of 41 years, Lisa Meyers, he also was dad to: Tracy (age 62, mother Fran Beer), Kris Jr. (age 56, mother Fran Beer) , and Casey (age 50, mother Rita Coolidge).

F3: Further Fascinating Finds

• Johnny Cash’s Queen of Clubs birth card was same suit (Clubs) to the birth card of Kris Kristofferson (8 of Clubs).

• Kris Kristofferson, born June 22, was the 8 of Clubs/Ace of Diamonds, was on stage as a musician celebrating Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden. Kristofferson shared the 8 of Clubs birth card with Dylan., born May 24, a 8 of Clubs/6 of Diamonds.

  

  On October 16, 1992, an impressive and eclectic group of artists gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the purpose of celebrating the music of Bob Dylan on the occasion of Dylan’s 30th anniversary of recording. This photo captures Kris Kristofferson, consoling Sinéad O'Connor while a crowd booed her at the concert just a couple of weeks after she tore up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live (SNL). Putting an arm around her, Kristofferson told her not to “let the bastards get her down”. O’Connor responded, “I’m not down”, and began to sing “War”, the centerpiece from her just-released record, Am I Not Your Girl? Kristofferson later released the song “Sister Sinéad”, in honor of O’Connor, with lyrics including the lines: “It's askin' for trouble to stick out your neck/ In terms of a target a big silhouette/ But some candles flicker and some candles fade/ And some burn as true as my sister Sinéad.”

• Sinéad O’Connor, born December 8, is the 10 of Clubs/Ace of Clubs. O’Connor’s birth card is the same as the birth card of Kris Kristofferson’s father. Furthermore, O’Connor’s astrological ruling card and Kristofferson’s astrological ruling card are same number (Ace/1).

  

  The 10 of Clubs figures prominently in Kris Kristofferson’s relationships — top left, father Lars; top middle Barbra Streisand; and top right Sinéad O’Connor.

• Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson were friends for decades and collaborated artistically. Nelson, born April 29, is the 5 of Clubs/Ace of Spades — the two having same number astrological ruling cards (Ace/1). Willie and Kris were close friends, music collaborators and performers (with Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash in the country music supergroup The Highwaymen).

  Waylon Jennings, born June 15, was the 2 of Diamonds/Jack of Spades — his 2 of Diamonds birth card an inverted suited and connected dynamic with Kristofferson’s astrological ruling card, the Ace of Diamonds.

  Nelson once said that Kristofferson was on his list of greatest songwriters ever.

  Kristofferson leaned into the outlaw identify in the 1970s and in the process helped Willie Nelson build Austin, Texas as an outpost for country musicians who didn’t fit into the clean-cut Nashville music machine. Kristofferson was on the bill at the 1972 Dripping Springs Reunion, the rowdy redneck party that inspired Willie’s annual Fourth of July Picnic. Kristofferson played Willie’s inaugural picnic the next year and remained connected to the event for decades, playing a total of 16 picnics over the years — the last one in Austin in 2016.

  In 2023, to celebrate Nelson’s 90th birthday celebration at The Hollywood Bowl, Kristofferson performed a duet with his longtime country music compadre.

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