Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Kirk Hammett's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs
The Collaborative Builder
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
Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician. The birth-card coordinate for November 18 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Performers with Metallica induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2009 Performers — inducted member of Metallica
The 2 of Clubs coordinate
Kirk Hammett's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 Kirk Hammett. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.
Kirk Hammett in the public record
Hammett has been the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Metallica since 1983; prior to joining Metallica, he co-formed thrash metal band Exodus in 1979. In 2023, Hammett and Metallica bandmate James Hetfield were co-ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone's list of Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2009, Hammett was ranked number 15 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. Hammett was born on November 18, 1962, in San Francisco, California, and raised in the town of El Sobrante. He is the son of Teofila "Chefela" Hammett (née Oyao) and Dennis L. Hammett (a merchant mariner). His mother is of Filipino, specifically Cebuano, descent and his father was of English, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, although he has referred to his father as a "a full-blooded Irishman who liked to drink and liked to scrap. He was always fighting people, even fighting his friends.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kirk Hammett (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Kirk Hammett's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♣ — Birth Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Truth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 6♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Responsible Mind
- 10♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Completed Mind
- 4♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Rigid Truth
- 10♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Master Builder
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Master of Thought
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 2♣, K♥, A♠, 4♥, 6♠, 10♠, 4♠, K♣, J♦, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- He would get together with my uncles and it was just one big fucking toxic soup of masculinity, and that’s what I came out of." He attended De Anza High School in Richmond, California.
- While attending De Anza High School, he met Les Claypool of Primus, and they remain close friends.
- Hammett has a well-known passion for horror movies that stretches back to the late 1960s.
- After spraining his arm in a fight with his sister at age five, Hammett's parents placed him in front of the television.
Other inductees with this card
- Al Greenwood — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
- Benny Andersson — 2010 Performers with ABBA
- Billy Gibbons — 2004 Performers with ZZ Top
- Darlene Love — 2011 Performers
- David Coverdale — 2016 Performers with Deep Purple
- Hank Ballard — 1990 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Midnighters
- Joan Jett — 2015 Performers with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
- Michael Carabello — 1998 Performers with Santana
- Mick Jagger — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- Ricky Byrd — 2015 Performers with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
- Roger Taylor — 2001 Performers with Queen
- Tom Morello — 2023 Performers with Rage Against the Machine
- 2 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Kirk Hammett's birth card?
- The 2 of Clubs. November 18 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 Kirk Hammett's dates come from?
- Birth date 1962-11-18 is the day-precision date on Kirk Hammett'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, Kirk Hammett) + Wikidata CC0 (Q484030). Birth date 1962-11-18 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).