Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Jacinto Benavente's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
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
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. The birth-card coordinate for August 12 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1922 Literature prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1922 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama
1922 — The Nobel Prize in Literature
“for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama”
No one else in this set holds the 1922 Literature prize; Jacinto Benavente appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.
116 other Literature laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Jacinto Benavente's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Jacinto Benavente. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Jacinto Benavente in the public record
He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics. A liberal monarchist and a critic of socialism, he was a reluctant supporter of Francoist Spain as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931–1936. In 1936 Benavente's name became associated with the assassination of the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. This happened when the Nationalist newspapers Estampa, El Correo de Andalucia, and Ideal circulated a fake news story that Lorca had been killed as a reprisal for the Republican murder of Benavente. Benavente died in Aldeaencabo de Escalona (Toledo) at the age of 87. He never married.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jacinto Benavente (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 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 Jacinto Benavente, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Jacinto Benavente's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, A♦, 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 articulate complex ideas clearly
He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: literature. This line comes from the Mars position of the A♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- According to many sources, he was a gay man.
- Jacinto Benavente wrote 172 works.
- Among his most important works are: El nido ajeno (Another's Nest, 1894), comedy, three acts.
- Gente conocida (High Society, 1896), satirical scenes of modern life, four acts.
Other laureates with this card
- Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
- Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
- Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
- Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
- Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
- Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
- Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
- Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
- César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
- David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
- Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
- Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
- 18 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Jacinto Benavente's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. August 12 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 Jacinto Benavente's dates come from?
- Birth date 1866-08-12 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 592) + Wikidata CC0 (Q83184) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jacinto Benavente). Birth date 1866-08-12 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).