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Károly Takács's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
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
Károly Takács (21 January 1910 – 5 January 1976) was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured. The birth-card coordinate for January 21 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Károly Takács's 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports for Hungary across 1948 and 1952. 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 Károly Takács (Q765590), not a reading of character. 1948: gold in shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol in shooting sports. 1952: gold in shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol in shooting sports.
- 1948 shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol (shooting sports)
- 1952 shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol (shooting sports)
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Károly Takács was born January 21 (1910-01-21). Month 1 and day 21 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 1910 is unused. The 6 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Károly Takács for Hungary. Quoted system copy for the 6 of Diamonds, not a biography of Károly Takács: 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.
Károly Takács in the public record
He is the third known physically disabled athlete to have competed in the Olympic Games after George Eyser in 1904 and Olivér Halassy in 1928, followed by Liz Hartel in 1952, Neroli Fairhall in 1984 and Oscar Pistorius in 2012. Takács was born in Budapest and joined the Hungarian Army. By 1936, he was a world-class pistol shooter, but he was denied a place in the Hungarian shooting team for the 1936 Summer Olympics on the grounds that he was a sergeant, and only commissioned officers were allowed to compete. This prohibition was lifted in Hungary after the Berlin Games, and Takács had expectations of success at the 1940 Summer Olympics, scheduled to be held in Tokyo. During army training in 1938, his right hand was badly injured when a faulty grenade exploded. Takács was determined to continue his shooting career, and switched to shooting with his left hand. He practiced in secret, surprising his countrymen when he won the Hungarian national pistol shooting championship in the spring of 1939. He also was a member of the Hungarian team that won the 1939 UIT World Shooting Championships in the event.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Károly Takács (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 Károly Takács, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Károly Takács's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Pioneer
- 3♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Heart
- A♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealth Pioneer
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wise Guide
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
He is the third known physically disabled athlete to have competed in the Olympic Games after George Eyser in 1904 and Olivér Halassy in 1928, followed by Liz Hartel in 1952, Neroli Fairhall in 1984 and Oscar Pistorius in 2012.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: athlete, olympic.
Also on the record
- The Olympic Games scheduled for 1940 and 1944 were canceled due to the Second World War.
- However, Takács surprised the world by winning the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, aged 38, beating the favourite, Argentine Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente, the reigning world champion.
- Takács won a second gold medal in the same event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Takács also attended the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, but finished eighth and failed to win a third medal.
- Although most associated with the rapid fire pistol, Takács also won a bronze medal at the 1958 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 25 metre center-fire pistol.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Dara Torres — 7 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Katie Ledecky — 7 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Henry Taylor — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Yana Klochkova — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Lisa Jacob — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Mike Troy — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Alexander Dityatin — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Alexandre Lippmann — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
- Baldo Baldi — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
- Claressa Shields — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in boxing
- Ma Lin — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis
- Robert Scheidt — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in sailing
- 1 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Károly Takács's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. January 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Károly Takács'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 Károly Takács's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1910-01-21 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Károly Takács, 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 (2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports) 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 (Q765590; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Károly Takács; infobox match). Birth date 1910-01-21 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.