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Aladár Gerevich's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds
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A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Olympic medal.
In the record
Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". The birth-card coordinate for March 16 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Aladár Gerevich's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing for Hungary across 1948–1960. Only Summer Games gold medals count here. Winter-only careers and single-gold athletes are out of this pack. The medal list is a public award record for Aladár Gerevich (Q312971), not a reading of character. 1948 1948 Summer Olympics: gold in fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in fencing. 1956: gold in Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – men's team sabre in fencing. 1960: gold in fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – men's team sabre in fencing.
- 1948 1948 Summer Olympics — fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics (fencing)
- 1956 Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – men's team sabre (fencing)
- 1960 fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – men's team sabre (fencing)
The 7 of Diamonds coordinate
Aladár Gerevich was born March 16 (1910-03-16). Month 3 and day 16 give solar value 33, which is the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1910 is unused. The 7 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Aladár Gerevich for Hungary. Quoted system copy for the 7 of Diamonds, not a biography of Aladár Gerevich: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance. You question everything about money—where it comes from, where it goes, whether it's worth it. You're analytical about resources. You think deeply about material choices.
Aladár Gerevich in the public record
He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games. Gerevich was the first athlete to win the same Olympic event six times (despite two Games cancelled because of the Second World War) with a record 28-year gap between first and last medals. (Both records were broken by Isabell Werth, who won seven team dressage golds between 1992 and 2024.) Gerevich's wife, Erna Bogen (also known as Erna Bogathy), his son, Pál Gerevich, and his father-in-law, Albert Bogen (a silver medalist in team sabre for Austria at the 1912 Summer Olympics), all won Olympic medals in fencing. In the Hungarian Olympic trials for the 1960 Rome Olympics, the fencing committee told Gerevich that he was too old to compete. He silenced them by challenging the entire sabre team to individual matches and winning every match. He missed the finals of the 1960 Olympic individual sabre event, and a possible individual gold medal, by a single touch. After retiring, he coached fencing at the Vasas Sports Club in Budapest, where he died aged 81. Asteroid 228893 Gerevich, discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky and Brigitta Sipőcz at Piszkéstető Station in 2003, was named in his memory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 January 2014 (M.P.C.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Aladár Gerevich (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Hearts
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 Aladár Gerevich, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Aladár Gerevich's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- K♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
- 2♦ — PRC Life Spread — Mars: The Financial Partner
- J♠ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Ambitious Builder
- 6♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Generous Provider
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Rigid Truth
- 10♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Community Heart
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wealthy Master
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.
Integrating compassion with hard-won wisdom
Gerevich was the first athlete to win the same Olympic event six times (despite two Games cancelled because of the Second World War) with a record 28-year gap between first and last medals. (Both records were broken by Isabell Werth, who won seven team dressage golds between 1992 and 2024.) Gerevich's wife, Erna Bogen (also known as Erna Bogathy), his son, Pál Gerevich, and his father-in-law, Albert Bogen (a silver medalist in team sabre for Austria at the 1912 Summer Olympics), all won Olympic medals in fencing.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: father.
Also on the record
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- List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games List of multiple Olympic gold medalists List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists www.olimpic.org: Aladár Gerevich with photos
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Dawn Fraser — 7 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- John Naber — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Pat McCormick — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving, competitive swimming
- Garrett Weber-Gale — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Harald Natvig — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Oreste Puliti — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
- Ralf Schumann — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports, 25 metre rapid fire pistol
- Annemarie Zimmermann — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- Carl Schuhmann — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in weightlifting, athletics, artistic gymnastics
- Carlo Pavesi — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
- Csaba Fenyvesi — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
- Gottfried Döhn — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in rowing
- 4 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Aladár Gerevich's birth card?
- The 7 of Diamonds. March 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Aladár Gerevich's year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict Olympic medals?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast races, medals, character, or fate.
- Where do Aladár Gerevich's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1910-03-16 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Aladár Gerevich, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Medal count (3 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing) comes from Wikidata P1344 event claims with P166 Olympic gold, limited to Summer Games. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q312971; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Aladár Gerevich; infobox match). Birth date 1910-03-16 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.