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Donna de Varona's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born April 26, 1947

United States

The Ambitious Builder

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

Donna de Varona Pinto (née Donna Elizabeth de Varona; born April 26, 1947) is an American former swimmer, Olympic champion, activist, and television sportscaster. de Varona attended Santa Clara High School, whose swim team was coached for a period by George Haines. The birth-card coordinate for April 26 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Donna de Varona'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 1964. 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 Donna de Varona (Q269814), not a reading of character. 1964 1964 Summer Olympics: gold in 1964 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – women's 400 metre individual medley in competitive swimming.

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

Donna de Varona was born April 26 (1947-04-26). Month 4 and day 26 give solar value 21, which is the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1947 is unused. The 8 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Donna de Varona for United States. Quoted system copy for the 8 of Clubs, not a biography of Donna de Varona: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player.

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Donna de Varona in the public record

In 1960, de Varona qualified for the U.S. Olympic swimming team at age 13. She already held the world record in her signature event, the 400-meter individual medley, but the event would not be added to the Olympic schedule until the 1964 Olympics. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, De Varona swam for the U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100 freestyle relay, but she did not receive a gold medal because she did not swim in the event final. Four years later at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, after she was well on her way to setting a career total of eighteen world best times and world records, she won the gold medal in the women's 400-meter individual medley. She defeated the second-place finisher by a margin of six seconds and set an Olympic record. She also earned a second gold medal as a member of the world-record-setting U.S. team in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. De Varona appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated, Look and Life magazines.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Donna de Varona, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

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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 create coherent belief systems

4♠ — Planetary Ruling Card, fixed to the 8♣, from the published 4 of Spades meaning

Donna de Varona Pinto (née Donna Elizabeth de Varona; born April 26, 1947) is an American former swimmer, Olympic champion, activist, and television sportscaster. de Varona attended Santa Clara High School, whose swim team was coached for a period by George Haines.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.

Also on the record

  1. In 1964, the Associated Press and United Press International voted de Varona the "most outstanding woman athlete in the world." De Varona retired from swimming and began her career in the male-dominated world of sports broadcasting.
  2. At the age of 17, she appeared on ABC's Wide World of Sports, becoming the youngest and one of the first women sportscasters for a national network.
  3. Her groundbreaking career has earned her an Emmy, two Gracies and the opportunity to cover a wide variety of sports events including 17 winter and summer Olympic games.
  4. In 2006, she was inducted into the Museum of Television & Radio's first class of fifty "She Made It" pioneers in media.

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FAQ

What is Donna de Varona's birth card?
The 8 of Clubs. April 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Donna de Varona'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 Donna de Varona's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1947-04-26 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Donna de Varona, 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 (Q269814; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Donna de Varona; infobox match). Birth date 1947-04-26 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.