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Jack Casady's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane

Born April 13, 1944

The Businessman

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

In the record

John William Casady (born April 13, 1944) is an American bass guitarist, best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. The birth-card coordinate for April 13 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane induction.

Rock Hall record

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Jack Casady's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Jack Casady. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

Live 8 of Diamonds meaning page

Jack Casady in the public record

Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco Sound. Singles including "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" charted in 1967 and 1968. Casady, along with the other members of Jefferson Airplane, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Casady was born in Washington D.C., the son of Mary Virginia (née Quimby) and William Robert Casady. His father was of half Irish Protestant and half Polish Jewish ancestry. His mother was a relative of aviator Harriet Quimby; some of her family had been in North America since the 1600s. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington, D.C.-area rhythm and blues band The Triumphs, he switched to bass during his high school years, and while still underage (and with a forged I.D.) played the Washington D.C. club scene, backing artists such as Little Anthony and the Imperials. Casady became the bass player for Jefferson Airplane when lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, a high school friend and former Triumphs rhythm guitarist, invited him to join in late September 1965.

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

Where the record meets the Queen 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 Jack Casady, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Jack Casady'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.

You tell the necessary truth at a volume the other person can use. You have wisdom, understanding, and the ability to guide others toward truth. You create intellectual safety where people can explore ideas. You're the wise counselor.

Q♠ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 8♦, from the published Queen of Spades meaning

Casady stepped beyond the bass guitar's conventional supporting role in rock & roll, in order to explore melodic ideas suggested by the rhythms and chord progressions.

Paired on shared wording: explore, ideas.

Also on the record

  1. He replaced the band's original bassist Bob Harvey the following month.
  2. Casady stepped beyond the bass guitar's conventional supporting role in rock & roll, in order to explore melodic ideas suggested by the rhythms and chord progressions.
  3. His impact was immediately evident on Airplane's debut album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (1966), on tracks such as "Let Me In" and "Run Around".
  4. The Takes Off LP quotes Marty Balin as saying "He carries it.

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FAQ

What is Jack Casady's birth card?
The 8 of Diamonds. April 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
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 Jack Casady's dates come from?
Birth date 1944-04-13 is the day-precision date on Jack Casady's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Jack Casady) + Wikidata CC0 (Q968070). Birth date 1944-04-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).