Sigrid Undset's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. The birth-card coordinate for May 20 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1928 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1928 The Nobel Prize in Literature — principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Sigrid Undset'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 Sigrid Undset. 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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Sigrid Undset in the public record

She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, but returned after the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death. Its three volumes were published between 1920 and 1922. Sigrid Undset was born on 20 May 1882 in the small town of Kalundborg, Denmark, at the childhood home of her mother, Charlotte Undset (1855–1939, née Anna Maria Charlotte Gyth). Her father was the Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Martin Undset (1853–1893). Sigrid Undset was the eldest of three daughters.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Sigrid Undset (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

She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

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

Also on the record

1. She and her family moved to Norway when she was two.
2. She grew up in the Norwegian capital, Oslo (or Kristiania, as it was known until 1925), where the family moved in July 1884.
3. When she was only 11 years old, her father died at the age of 40 after a long illness.
4. The family's economic situation meant that Undset had to give up hope of a university education and after a one-year secretarial course she obtained work at the age of 16 as a secretary with an engineering company in Kristiania, a post she went on to hold for 10 years.

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• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Sigrid Undset's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. May 20 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?

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Where do Sigrid Undset's dates come from?

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