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Jane Barkman's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born September 20, 1951

United States

The Systematic 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

Jane Louise Barkman (born September 20, 1951), also known by her married name Jane Brown, is an American former swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for September 20 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Jane Barkman'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 States across 1968 and 1972. 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 Jane Barkman (Q163599), not a reading of character. 1968 1968 Summer Olympics: gold in 1968 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1972 1972 Summer Olympics: gold in 1972 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1972: gold in swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Jane Barkman was born September 20 (1951-09-20). Month 9 and day 20 give solar value 17, which is the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1951 is unused. The 4 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Jane Barkman for United States. Quoted system copy for the 4 of Clubs, not a biography of Jane Barkman: You put thinking into an order other people can actually use. You organize thoughts into systems. You build frameworks, structures, and processes. Your mind naturally creates order from chaos.

Live 4 of Clubs meaning page

Jane Barkman in the public record

Barkman's earliest coaches include Bob Fitzgerald who mentored her when she was six-years-old, Bill Taylor, who worked with her from ages seven-eleven. Barkman started more competitive age group swimming at Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club under Hall of Fame swimming coach Mary Freeman Kelly. Swimming for the Vesper Club in late March 1967, she set a record of 5:21.7 in the 500-yard freestyle at the Middle Atlantic AAU Swimming Championships, also winning the 100-yard freestyle, and the 400-yard freestyle relay and had previously set a AAU District record in the 100-yard breaststroke of 1:12.0 in 1965 and a 200 I.M meet record in 1966. Preparing for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Jane trained four hours a day Monday-Friday, and three hours on Saturday, as well as doing pully weights at home. She attended the Olympic trials at Los Angeles Stadium seeded first in her event. She was disappointed to finish fourth in the 100-meter freestyle, but still qualified for the event, and the relays. She also qualified in the trials for the 200-meter freestyle, though it was not one of her better events. In the finals, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with teammates Linda Gustavson, Sue Pedersen, and Jan Henne.

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

Where the record meets the 4 of Clubs

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 Jane Barkman, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Jane Barkman'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.

Systematic thinking and organizational ability

4♣ — Birth Card, from the published 4 of Clubs meaning

Barkman started more competitive age group swimming at Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club under Hall of Fame swimming coach Mary Freeman Kelly.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: coach.

Also on the record

  1. She and her relay teammates set a new Olympic record of 4:02.5 in the event final.
  2. Individually, she also received a bronze medal for her third-place performance in the women's 200-meter freestyle.
  3. Barkman finished behind Debbie Meyer, and Jan Henne, completing an American sweep of the event.
  4. She attended Salem College, in Winston-Salem, South Carolina, beginning in 1969, but swam with the team from 1970 to 1974, taking off to train for the 1972 Olympics, and training as well for a period with the Wake Forest men's team in the Fall of 1970.

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FAQ

What is Jane Barkman's birth card?
The 4 of Clubs. September 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Jane Barkman'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 Jane Barkman's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1951-09-20 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Jane Barkman, 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 (Q163599; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jane Barkman; infobox match). Birth date 1951-09-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.