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Bertil Ohlin's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
The Creative Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin (Swedish: [ˈbæ̌ʈːɪl ʊˈliːn]) (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. The birth-card coordinate for April 23 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1977 Economic Sciences prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1977 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements
1977 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
“for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements”
Shared with James E. Meade (7♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Bertil Ohlin's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative 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 Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Bertil Ohlin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.
Bertil Ohlin in the public record
He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social Democratic Party, from 1944 to 1967. He served briefly as Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1959 and 1964. Ohlin's name lives on in one of the standard mathematical models of international free trade, the Heckscher–Ohlin model, which he developed together with Eli Heckscher. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977 together with the British economist James Meade "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements".
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bertil Ohlin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs
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Cards in Bertil Ohlin's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
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.
Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs
He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.
Other laureates with this card
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- Abdus Salam — 1979 Physics
- Abiy Ahmed Ali — 2019 Peace
- Albert Gobat — 1902 Peace
- Andrei Sakharov — 1975 Peace
- Arthur Henderson — 1934 Peace
- Aung San Suu Kyi — 1991 Peace
- Bengt I. Samuelsson — 1982 Physiology or Medicine
- David H. Hubel — 1981 Physiology or Medicine
- Ernst B. Chain — 1945 Physiology or Medicine
- François Mauriac — 1952 Literature
- Friedrich Bergius — 1931 Chemistry
- 23 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Bertil Ohlin's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. April 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Bertil Ohlin's dates come from?
- Birth date 1899-04-23 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔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: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 689) + Wikidata CC0 (Q179493) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Bertil Ohlin). Birth date 1899-04-23 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).