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Katalin Szőke's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs
The Humanitarian 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
Katalin Szőke (17 August 1935 – 27 October 2017) was a Hungarian swimmer. The birth-card coordinate for August 17 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Katalin Szőke's 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Hungary across 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 Katalin Szőke (Q267782), not a reading of character. 1952: gold in swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – women's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1952: gold in swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.
- 1952 swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – women's 100 metre freestyle (competitive swimming)
- 1952 swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
The 9 of Clubs coordinate
Katalin Szőke was born August 17 (1935-08-17). Month 8 and day 17 give solar value 22, which is the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1935 is unused. The 9 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Katalin Szőke for Hungary. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Clubs, not a biography of Katalin Szőke: You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift.
Katalin Szőke in the public record
She competed at the 1952 Olympics and won two gold medals, in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle events. Two years later she repeated that success at the 1954 European Championships. She also competed in these two events at the 1956 Olympics but without success. During her career Szőke set four world records. In 1985 she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Szőke was born in Budapest to Márton Homonnai, an Olympic champion in water polo in 1932 and 1936. During World War II, her father was a policeman and a member of the Arrow Cross Party, which supported the Nazis. After the war, fearing prosecution (he was sentenced to death in absentia), he flew via Germany and Brazil to Argentina, where he died in 1969.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Katalin Szőke (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack 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 Katalin Szőke, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Katalin Szőke's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♣ — Birth Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 9♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.
Meanwhile, his daughter remained in Hungary and took her mother's name to hide relationship with her father.
Paired on shared wording: name, remained. This line comes from the Pluto position of the 9♣'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- Meanwhile, his daughter remained in Hungary and took her mother's name to hide relationship with her father.
- In 1956, due to the Soviet intervention in Hungary, she immigrated to the United States.
- She married an Olympic water polo player Kálmán Markovits, but later divorced him and married his teammate, Árpád Domján.
- They settled in Los Angeles, where she worked at a bank and did some modelling, while her husband built a successful career in developing office buildings and living apartments.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Ian Thorpe — 7 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Jon Olsen — 6 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Angel Martino — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Cullen Jones — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Shirley Babashoff — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Tom Dolan — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Agneta Andersson — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- Alice Tait — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Katalin Kovács — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- Summer Sanders — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Carl Westergren — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling
- Edward Hennig — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- 5 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Katalin Szőke's birth card?
- The 9 of Clubs. August 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Katalin Szőke'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 Katalin Szőke's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1935-08-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Katalin Szőke, 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 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 (Q267782; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Katalin Szőke; infobox match). Birth date 1935-08-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.