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Mick Avory's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

1990 Performers with The Kinks

Born February 15, 1944

The Wealthy Master

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

Michael Charles Avory (born 15 February 1944) is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the English rock band the Kinks. The birth-card coordinate for February 15 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1990 Performers with The Kinks induction.

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The 10 of Diamonds coordinate

Mick Avory's birthday maps to the 10 of Diamonds (The Wealthy Master). 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 Mick Avory. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough and keep it structured so it actually holds.

Live 10 of Diamonds meaning page

Mick Avory in the public record

He joined them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remained with them until 1984, when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies. He is the longest-serving member of the band, apart from the Davies brothers. He is also the most prolific member, again apart from the Davies brothers, who has played on twenty studio albums or nearly all of the band's creative output. Before he joined the Kinks, Avory was a member of the band Bobby Angelo & the Tuxedos, who had a No. 30 hit with "Baby Sittin'" in August 1961. After leaving that group, he was asked twice to rehearse on drums at the Bricklayers Arms pub in London during late May/early June 1962 for a group of musicians who were later to become the Rolling Stones. It has been said that he also went on to play at their first show at The Marquee Club on 12 July 1962, yet Avory himself says "I think Tony Chapman did the gig at the Marquee. I didn't.

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

Where the record meets the 8 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 Mick Avory, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Mick Avory'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 take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made. Your mind is sharp, commanding, powerful. You think strategically and forcefully. You win arguments and debates. Your thinking dominates.

8♠ — Life Spread — Mercury, fixed to the 10♦, from the published 8 of Spades meaning

Push came to shove, and to avoid an argument I couldn't face. ... we were doing a track called "Good Day" and I couldn't face having Mick and Dave in the studio, so I did it with a drum machine.

Paired on shared wording: argument, called. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 10♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. I just rehearsed twice in the Bricklayers Arms in Soho." Mick Jagger has said he has no recollection of playing any gigs with Avory.
  2. Avory joined the Kinks in January 1964, after their previous drummer Micky Willet left the band.
  3. Avory was hired to replace him after their management saw an advertisement Avory had placed in the trade magazine Melody Maker.
  4. He attended a rehearsal at the Camden Head in Islington shortly before Christmas of 1963, and was then offered the job by manager Robert Wace just after New Year.

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FAQ

What is Mick Avory's birth card?
The 10 of Diamonds. February 15 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 Mick Avory's dates come from?
Birth date 1944-02-15 is the day-precision date on Mick Avory'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, Mick Avory) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2099882). Birth date 1944-02-15 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).