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Leon Štukelj's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs
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
Leon Štukelj (12 November 1898 – 8 November 1999) was a Slovene professional gymnast. The birth-card coordinate for November 12 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Leon Štukelj's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics for Kingdom of Yugoslavia across 1924 and 1928. 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 Leon Štukelj (Q354234), not a reading of character. 1924: gold in gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – men's artistic individual all-around in gymnastics. 1924: gold in gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – men's horizontal bar in gymnastics. 1928: gold in gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – men's rings in gymnastics.
- 1924 gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – men's artistic individual all-around (gymnastics)
- 1924 gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – men's horizontal bar (gymnastics)
- 1928 gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – men's rings (gymnastics)
The 8 of Clubs coordinate
Leon Štukelj was born November 12 (1898-11-12). Month 11 and day 12 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 1898 is unused. The 8 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Leon Štukelj for Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Quoted system copy for the 8 of Clubs, not a biography of Leon Štukelj: 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.
Leon Štukelj in the public record
He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics. He is a noted figure in Slovenian sporting history. Štukelj is one of the first Slovene athletes to have risen to the very top of his sport, where he remained right from the World Championships in Ljubljana in 1922 all the way to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, at which point he finished his competitive gymnastics career. Štukelj competed at seven major international competitions and won a total of twenty medals: eight gold, six silver, and six bronze. At the Olympic Games alone he won six medals: two gold medals (counted for Yugoslavia) in Paris in 1924, one gold medal and two bronze in Amsterdam in 1928 and a silver medal in Berlin in 1936. Štukelj was born in Kandija (part of Novo Mesto since 1923), Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). His baptismal record bears the name Leopold, crossed out and replaced with Leo. A 1999 addendum to the volume corrects the name Leo to Leon; his name appears as both Leo Štukelj and Leon Štukelj in newspapers of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1927, Štukelj graduated with a degree in law. Since his youth, he was an active member of the Slovenian Sokol athletic movement. After finishing his sports career, he became a judge, first in his hometown of Novo Mesto.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Leon Štukelj (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 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 Leon Štukelj, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Leon Štukelj's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- A♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 10♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Community Heart
- Q♦ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Prosperous Nurturer
- 5♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Restless Mind
- J♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Creative Messenger
- 3♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Communicator
- 3♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Compassionate Idealist
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.
Quick thinking and mental flexibility
He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: athlete, olympic.
Also on the record
- Later, he moved to Lenart, and then to Maribor, where he lived until his death.
- After World War II, Štukelj was not a supporter of the newly formed Communist regime of Yugoslavia.
- He took part in the Yugoslav royalist (Chetnik) movement, hostile to Tito's partisans, and maintained contacts with the British Special Operations Executive.
- For these reasons, he was suspicious to the new Communist regime.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Jason Lezak — 7 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Nadia Comăneci — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Donna de Varona — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Reginald Doherty — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in tennis
- Albert Helgerud — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Evelin Jahl — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics
- Guo Wenjun — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Ian Ferguson — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- John Pius Boland — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in tennis
- Kirsty Coventry — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Kōji Gushiken — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Lin Dan — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in badminton
- 3 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Leon Štukelj's birth card?
- The 8 of Clubs. November 12 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Leon Štukelj'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 Leon Štukelj's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1898-11-12 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Leon Štukelj, 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 artistic gymnastics) 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 (Q354234; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Leon Štukelj; infobox match). Birth date 1898-11-12 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.