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Bruce Furniss's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born May 27, 1957

United States

The Dynamic Innovator

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

Bruce MacFarlane Furniss (born May 27, 1957) is an American former amateur competition swimmer, Olympic double gold medalist, and ten-time world record-holder in four events. The birth-card coordinate for May 27 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Bruce Furniss's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1976. 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 Bruce Furniss (Q991648), not a reading of character. 1976 1976 Summer Olympics: gold in 1976 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

Bruce Furniss was born May 27 (1957-05-27). Month 5 and day 27 give solar value 18, which is the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1957 is unused. The 5 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Bruce Furniss for United States. Quoted system copy for the 5 of Clubs, not a biography of Bruce Furniss: You pressure-test a stale idea in public and let the better one win. Your mind craves novelty, variety, and freedom. You get bored easily and need constant stimulation. You're the one who disrupts stale thinking.

Live 5 of Clubs meaning page

Bruce Furniss in the public record

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he won the Men's 200-meter Freestyle and was a member of the winning U.S. team in the Men's 4×200-meter Freestyle Relay, both in world record time. Furniss broke ten world and nineteen American records, and won eleven Amateur Athletic Union and six NCAA titles. Furniss was an individual medley swimmer, most recognized for his freestyle technique. Furniss is a 1975 graduate of Tustin, California's Foothill High School where he was coached by Tom Delong, California Interscholastic Federation's all-time winningest high school swim coach. As a Junior at the 1974 CIF-SS Championships, Furniss broke Mark Spitz's National Interscholastic High School Record in the 200-yard Individual Medley and then topped the record again at the same championship in 1975. Furniss-led teams won the CIF-SS Championship Title in 1972, 1973 and 1974. Two of those years, Furniss teamed with Rod Strachan, whom Furniss would later swim with at USC and with whom he was a teammate on the 1976 U.S. Olympic Men's Swim Team.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

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 Bruce Furniss, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Bruce Furniss's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

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 penetrate illusions and see truth

A♠ — Life Spread — Venus, fixed to the 5♣, from the published Ace of Spades meaning

Furniss broke ten world and nineteen American records, and won eleven Amateur Athletic Union and six NCAA titles.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: athletic, union. This line comes from the Venus position of the 5♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. At the 1976 Olympic Games, Strachan would best Bruce's older brother, Steve, winning the Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter Individual Medley in a world record time.
  2. Furniss was an integral part of USC's NCAA National Collegiate Championship winning teams of 1976 and 1977.
  3. While at USC, Furniss was coached by the legendary Peter Daland, who guided the school's men's swimming team to nine National Titles in his 35 years as the school's coach (1957 to 1992).
  4. During his time at USC, Furniss was one of five Trojans who would make the 1976 twenty-six member Men's USA Olympic Swimming Team (each Olympic Swimming Medalists).

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FAQ

What is Bruce Furniss's birth card?
The 5 of Clubs. May 27 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Bruce Furniss'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 Bruce Furniss's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1957-05-27 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Bruce Furniss, 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 competitive swimming) 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 (Q991648; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Bruce Furniss; infobox match). Birth date 1957-05-27 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.