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Lionel Hampton's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

1992 Kennedy Center Honors

Born April 20, 1908

Died August 31, 2002

The Wealth Pioneer

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor.

In the record

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. The birth-card coordinate for April 20 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Lionel Hampton's 1992 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

Lionel Hampton is on the 1992 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Lionel Hampton (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Lionel Hampton (Q313525, Wikipedia “Lionel Hampton”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Lionel Hampton is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Lionel Hampton: 1992 Lionel Hampton. Lionel Hampton's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1908-04-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Lionel Hampton, verified against Wikidata P569 1908-04-20 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Lionel Hampton is not_published. The harvested card symbol for April 20 is A♦. A public death date of August 31, 2002 (2002-08-31) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Lionel Hampton. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Hampton is the Wikipedia article used for Lionel Hampton. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Lionel Hampton. It only names the calendar coordinate for April 20 and the Honors years already listed for Lionel Hampton.

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Lionel Hampton was born April 20, 1908 (1908-04-20). Month 4 and day 20 give solar value 27, which is the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1908 is unused, so Lionel Hampton's 1908 birth year does not move the card. The Ace of Diamonds does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Lionel Hampton. Quoted system copy for the Ace of Diamonds, not a biography of Lionel Hampton: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value. You're wired to build, accumulate, and create resources. Money and material success are your native language. You're the one who starts from nothing and builds something. Harvested gifts listed for the Ace of Diamonds: Natural resource building and accumulation; Ability to see material opportunity; Entrepreneurial drive and initiative; Capacity to create wealth from ideas. Harvested life-direction line for the Ace of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that worth is not tied to wealth. You're learning that you're enough regardless of what you accumulate.

Live Ace of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

Lionel Hampton in the public record

He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996. Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Catholic and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Hearts

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 Lionel Hampton, and not a forecast of an honor.

Cards in Lionel Hampton's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

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.

Courage to initiate genuine emotional connection

A♥ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the A♦, from the published Ace of Hearts meaning

Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: mother.

Also on the record

  1. Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band (led by Major N.
  2. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago.
  3. While he lived in Chicago, Hampton saw Louis Armstrong at the Vendome, recalling that the entire audience went crazy after his first solo.
  4. He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers.

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FAQ

What is Lionel Hampton's birth card?
The Ace of Diamonds. April 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Lionel Hampton's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?
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 Lionel Hampton's dates and Honors credits come from?
Birth date 1908-04-20 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Lionel Hampton, 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 Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 1992 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is not_published. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Kennedy Center (honors record, kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Honors roster, Lionel Hampton) + Wikidata CC0 (Q313525). Birth date 1908-04-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).