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Jim Capaldi's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
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
Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. The birth-card coordinate for August 2 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Performers with Traffic induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2004 Performers — inducted member of Traffic
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Jim Capaldi's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Jim Capaldi. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Jim Capaldi in the public record
His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood, and the two of them co-wrote the majority of the band's material. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of Traffic's original lineup. Capaldi also performed with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Alvin Lee, Cat Stevens, and Mylon LeFevre, and wrote lyrics for other artists, such as "Love Will Keep Us Alive" and "This is Reggae Music". As a solo artist he scored more than a half dozen chart hits in various countries, the best-known being "That's Love" as well as his cover of "Love Hurts". Capaldi was born Nicola James Capaldi in Evesham, Worcestershire, to English parents Marie (née Couchier) and Nicholas Capaldi. His father was born Nicola Capaldi in 1913 in Evesham to Italian parents. As a child, Capaldi studied piano and voice with his father, a music teacher, and by his teens he was playing drums with his friends.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jim Capaldi (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds
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 Jim Capaldi, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Jim Capaldi's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, J♦, 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.
Ability to inspire financial awakening
He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood, and the two of them co-wrote the majority of the band's material.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded.
Also on the record
- At age 14, he founded the band the Sapphires and served as their lead vocalist.
- At 16 he took an apprenticeship at a factory in Worcester, where he met Keith Miller and Dave Mason.
- In 1963 he formed the Hellions, with Mason on guitar and Gordon Jackson on rhythm guitar, while Capaldi himself switched to drums.
- In August 1964, Tanya Day took the Hellions to the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, as her backing group.
Other inductees with this card
- Alex Van Halen — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
- Annette Beard — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
- Atticus Ross — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
- Bill Legend — 2020 Performers with T. Rex
- Bill Withers — 2015 Performers
- Bob Bogle — 2008 Performers with The Ventures
- Chris Frantz — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
- Doris Kenner-Jackson — 1996 Performers with The Shirelles
- Eddie Hazel — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Garth Hudson — 1994 Performers with The Band
- James Taylor — 2000 Performers
- Jeremy Spencer — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
- 11 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Jim Capaldi's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. August 2 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 Jim Capaldi's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-08-02 is the day-precision date on Jim Capaldi'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, Jim Capaldi) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1392515). Birth date 1944-08-02 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).