Leymah Gbowee's Birth Card: The Jack of Spades

In the record

Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. The birth-card coordinate for February 1 is the Jack of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2011 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2011 The Nobel Peace Prize — for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work

The Jack of Spades coordinate

Leymah Gbowee's birthday maps to the Jack of Spades (The Messenger of Truth). 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 Leymah Gbowee. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.

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Leymah Gbowee in the public record

Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. Gbowee and Sirleaf, along with Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." Leymah Gbowee was born in central Liberia on 1 February 1972. At the age of 17, she was living with her parents and two of her three sisters in Monrovia while planning on continuing her education, when the First Liberian Civil War erupted in 1989, throwing the country into chaos until 1996. "As the war subsided she learned about a program run by UNICEF,... training people to be social workers who would then counsel those traumatized by war," wrote Gbowee in her 2011 memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers. She did a three-month training, which led her to be aware of her own abuse at the hands of the father of her two young children, son Joshua "Nuku" and daughter Amber. Searching for peace and sustenance for her family, Gbowee followed her partner, called Daniel in her memoir, to Ghana where she and her growing family (her second son, Arthur, was born) lived as virtually homeless refugees and almost starved. She fled with her three children, riding a bus on credit for over a week "because I didn't have a cent," back to the chaos of Liberia, where her parents and other family members still lived. In 1998, in an effort to gain admission to an associate of arts degree program in social work at Mother Patern College of Health Sciences, Gbowee became a volunteer within a program of the Lutheran Church in Liberia operating out of St.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

At the age of 17, she was living with her parents and two of her three sisters in Monrovia while planning on continuing her education, when the First Liberian Civil War erupted in 1989, throwing the country into chaos until 1996.

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

Also on the record

1. Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia, where her mother was a women's leader and Gbowee had passed her teenage years.
2. It was called the Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Program (THRP), and it marked the beginning of Gbowee's journey toward being a peace activist: The THRP's offices were new, but the program had a history.
3. Liberia's churches had been active in peace efforts ever since the civil war started, and in 1991, Lutheran pastors, lay leaders, teachers and health workers joined with the Christian Health Association of Liberia to try to repair the psychic and social damage left by the war.
4. Gbowee studied and worked her way toward her associate of art degree, conferred in 2001, while applying her training in trauma healing and reconciliation to try to rehabilitate some of the ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army.

Other laureates with this card

• Emilio Segrè — 1959 Physics
• Roger Y. Tsien — 2008 Chemistry

FAQ

What is Leymah Gbowee's birth card?

The Jack of Spades. February 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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