Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Nick Mason's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
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
Nicholas Berkeley Mason (born 27 January 1944) is an English drummer and a founder member of the rock band Pink Floyd. The birth-card coordinate for January 27 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1996 Performers — inducted member of Pink Floyd
The King of Clubs coordinate
Nick Mason's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Nick Mason. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.
Nick Mason in the public record
He has been the only constant member since the band's formation in 1965, and the only member to appear on every Pink Floyd album. He co-wrote Pink Floyd compositions including "Echoes", "Time", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "One of These Days". In 1996, Mason was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. In 2018, he formed a new band, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, to perform music from Pink Floyd's early years. Mason collects classic cars and competes in motorsport races, and has produced books and documentaries on the subject. Nicholas Berkeley Mason was born on 27 January 1944 in Birmingham to Ailsa Sarah (née Kershaw) and Bill Mason, a documentary filmmaker; one of his paternal great-grandfathers was Rowland Hill Berkeley, who was Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1904–1905. Mason was brought up in Hampstead, London, and attended the Hall School, Hampstead, and Frensham Heights School, near Farnham, Surrey. While studying architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), he formed a band, Sigma 6, an early incarnation of Pink Floyd, with Roger Waters, Bob Klose and Richard Wright in the early 1960s.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Nick Mason (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the King 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 Nick Mason, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Nick Mason's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 6♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Nurturing Creator
- 2♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Financial Partner
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Completed Mind
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.
Clear thinking and decisive action
He co-wrote Pink Floyd compositions including "Echoes", "Time", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "One of These Days".
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: wrote.
Also on the record
- In September 1963, Waters and Mason moved into a flat near Crouch End in London, owned by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at the nearby Hornsey College of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic.
- Mason moved out after the 1964 academic year.
- Pink Floyd released their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967.
- Mason has played on every Pink Floyd album since.
Other inductees with this card
- Artimus Pyle — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Dennis Stratton — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Dusty Hill — 2004 Performers with ZZ Top
- George Harrison — 1988 Performers with The Beatles; 2004 Performers
- Gillian Gilbert — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Gregg Rolie — 1998 Performers with Santana; 2017 Performers with Journey
- Ian Curtis — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Iggy Pop — 2010 Performers with The Stooges
- Jackson Browne — 2004 Performers
- Janick Gers — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Joey Ambrose — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Joey Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
- 14 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Nick Mason's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. January 27 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 Nick Mason's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-01-27 is the day-precision date on Nick Mason'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, Nick Mason) + Wikidata CC0 (Q192936). Birth date 1944-01-27 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).