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Chris Hoy's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
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
Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. The birth-card coordinate for March 23 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Chris Hoy's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in track cycling, cycle sport, auto racing.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in track cycling, cycle sport, auto racing for United Kingdom across 2004–2012. 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 Chris Hoy (Q310383), not a reading of character. 2004: gold in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – men's track time trial in track cycling. 2008: gold in cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – men's Keirin in track cycling. 2012: gold in cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – men's Keirin in track cycling.
- 2004 cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – men's track time trial (track cycling)
- 2008 cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – men's Keirin (track cycling)
- 2012 cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – men's Keirin (track cycling)
The King of Clubs coordinate
Chris Hoy was born March 23 (1976-03-23). Month 3 and day 23 give solar value 26, which is the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1976 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Chris Hoy for United Kingdom. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Chris Hoy: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it. You command through clarity and competence. You're the authority, the decision-maker, the one people look to for direction. Your thinking is decisive and clear.
Chris Hoy in the public record
Hoy is an 11-time world champion and a six-time Olympic champion. With a total of seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, Hoy is the second most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time. Between 2012 and 2021, he was the most successful British Olympian and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time. His 17 global titles across four disciplines make Hoy the second most successful track cyclist at the global level of all times behind Harrie Lavreysen. With his three gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first British male athlete to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor in 1908, and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time. After winning a further two gold medals (in the keirin and team sprint) at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hoy has won the second-most Olympic gold medals (six) of all British athletes, behind Jason Kenny, and more total medals (seven) than any except fellow cyclists Kenny and Sir Bradley Wiggins. Hoy has won Olympic gold medals in more separate events — team sprint (twice), match sprint, keirin (twice) and kilo — than any other cyclist. In September 2023, Hoy was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Chris Hoy (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 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 Chris Hoy, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Chris Hoy's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Heart
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.
Strategic and powerful thinking
Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.
Also on the record
- In October 2024, he reported that his condition was terminal and that he had been given between two and four years to live.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Birgit Fischer — 8 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- Boris Shakhlin — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Michael Gross — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Pablo Morales — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Paul Elvstrøm — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in sailing
- Ricky Berens — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Stephanie Rice — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Steve Clark — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Venus Williams — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in tennis
- Alex Baumann — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Gary Ilman — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Michael Klim — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- 16 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Chris Hoy's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. March 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Chris Hoy'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 Chris Hoy's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1976-03-23 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Chris Hoy, 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 track cycling, cycle sport, auto racing) 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 (Q310383; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Chris Hoy; infobox match). Birth date 1976-03-23 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.