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Jeff Coffin's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

2024 Performers with Dave Matthews Band

Born August 5, 1965

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

Jeff Stanley Coffin (born August 5, 1965) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator. The birth-card coordinate for August 5 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2024 Performers with Dave Matthews Band induction.

Rock Hall record

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Jeff Coffin'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 Jeff Coffin. 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

Jeff Coffin in the public record

He is a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he performed from 1997 until 2010. In July 2008, Coffin began touring with Dave Matthews Band and joined the group in 2009 following the death of founding member LeRoi Moore. He also leads his group Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Dexter, Maine, Coffin began playing alto sax in fifth grade under the tutelage of Arthur Lagassee, the band director for the district. For two summers during the 1980s he attended the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire which he credits for his love for mentoring young musicians. In 1983, after graduating from Spaulding High School in Rochester, New Hampshire, he attended the University of New Hampshire for two years. He studied at the University of North Texas and graduated with a degree in Music Education in 1990. A recipient of a Jazz Studies grant from the NEA, in 1991, he studied under saxophonist Joe Lovano.

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

Where the record meets the 7 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 Jeff Coffin, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Jeff Coffin's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 8♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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.

Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

7♣ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the 8♦, from the published 7 of Clubs meaning

Jeff Stanley Coffin (born August 5, 1965) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: educator.

Also on the record

  1. In 1997, he became a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
  2. Due to extensive touring requirements, he left the Flecktones in 2008.
  3. During the same year, he joined the Dave Matthews Band for their summer tour after saxophonist LeRoi Moore was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident.
  4. He had intended to be in the band temporarily, but became a permanent replacement when Moore died from his injuries.

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FAQ

What is Jeff Coffin's birth card?
The 8 of Diamonds. August 5 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 Jeff Coffin's dates come from?
Birth date 1965-08-05 is the day-precision date on Jeff Coffin'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, Jeff Coffin) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3807777). Birth date 1965-08-05 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).