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Henry Taylor's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born March 17, 1885

United Kingdom

Died February 28, 1951

The Generous Provider

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

Henry Taylor (17 March 1885 – 28 February 1951) was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in four Summer Olympics between 1906 and 1920. The birth-card coordinate for March 17 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Henry Taylor's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United Kingdom across 1908. 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 Henry Taylor (Q962562), not a reading of character. 1908 1908 Summer Olympics: gold in 1908 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1908: gold in swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – men's 1500 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1908: gold in swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1908: gold in swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – men's 400 metre freestyle in competitive swimming.

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Henry Taylor was born March 17 (1885-03-17). Month 3 and day 17 give solar value 32, which is the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1885 is unused. The 6 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Henry Taylor for United Kingdom. Quoted system copy for the 6 of Diamonds, not a biography of Henry Taylor: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim. You naturally want to provide for others. Your resources flow toward helping and supporting. You're the one people come to when they need something.

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Henry Taylor in the public record

Taylor served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, and continued to swim competitively until 1926. His fortunes declined after he retired, and he died penniless. His record of three gold medals at one Olympic Games – the most by any Briton – stood for 100 years until it was equaled by cyclist Chris Hoy in 2008. Tying the medal count of American Mel Sheppard, he was the most successful athlete at the 1908 Olympics. Henry Taylor was born in Hollinwood in Oldham, Lancashire, on 17 March 1885 to James, a coal miner, and Elizabeth Taylor. Henry's parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his older brother, Bill. Taylor learned to swim in the Hollinwood Canal and practised in any water body he could find – baths, becks, canals, lakes, etc., including the Hollinwood Canal and Alexandra Park's boating lake. Austin Rawlinson, who was Taylor's friend and later president of Amateur Swimming Association, recalled that Taylor "loved his swimming more than anything else in life".

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Henry Taylor, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Henry Taylor'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 see what needs fixing

3♠ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the 6♦, from the published 3 of Spades meaning

Taylor served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, and continued to swim competitively until 1926.

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

Also on the record

  1. At the age of seven Taylor swam in his first race.
  2. Bill became his coach, and Henry trained in the Oldham Baths, and from 1894 in the Chadderton Baths, often on the "dirty water days" because of cheaper admission.
  3. During this time he continued to train in the canal, and when he got a job at a cotton mill, he spent his lunchtimes swimming in the canal.
  4. At 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) and weighing 10 stone 6 pounds (66 kg), he wore a hand-woven silk swimming costume weighing about an ounce.

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FAQ

What is Henry Taylor's birth card?
The 6 of Diamonds. March 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Henry Taylor'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 Henry Taylor's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1885-03-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Henry Taylor, 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 (4 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 (Q962562; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Henry Taylor (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1885-03-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.