John Galsworthy's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The birth-card coordinate for August 14 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1932 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1932 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in <I>The Forsyte Saga</I>

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

John Galsworthy's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing 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 Nobel Prize and not a verdict on John Galsworthy. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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John Galsworthy in the public record

He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga (1906, 1920, 1921), and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born to a prosperous upper-middle-class family, Galsworthy was destined for a career as a lawyer, but found it uncongenial and turned instead to writing. He was thirty before his first book was published in 1897, and did not achieve real success until 1906, when The Man of Property, the first of his novels about the Forsyte family was published. In the same year his first play, The Silver Box was staged in London. As a dramatist, he became known for plays with a social message, reflecting, among other themes, the struggle of workers against exploitation, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the repression of women, jingoism and the politics and morality of war. The Forsyte family series of novels and short stories collectively known as The Forsyte Chronicles is similar in many ways to Galsworthy's family, and the patriarch, Old Jolyon, is modelled on Galsworthy's father. The main sequence runs from the late 19th century to the early 1930s, featuring three generations of the family.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

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Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance

He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: literature.

Also on the record

1. The books were popular when first published and their latter-day popularity was boosted considerably when BBC Television broadcast a 26-part adaptation for the author's centenary in 1967.
2. As well as writing plays and novels with social messages, Galsworthy campaigned continually for a wide range of causes about which he felt strongly, from animal welfare to prison reform, censorship and workers' rights.
3. Although seen by many as a radical, he belonged to and supported no political party.
4. His plays are seldom revived, but his novels have been frequently reissued.

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FAQ

What is John Galsworthy's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. August 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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