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Mike Burton's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born July 3, 1947

United States

The Prosperous Nurturer

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

Michael Jay Burton (born July 3, 1947) is an American swimmer who competed for the University of California at Los Angeles, a three-time Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in two freestyle distance events. The birth-card coordinate for July 3 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Mike Burton's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 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 Mike Burton (Q640504), not a reading of character. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – men's 1500 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – men's 400 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1972: gold in swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – men's 1500 metre freestyle in competitive swimming.

The Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Mike Burton was born July 3 (1947-07-03). Month 7 and day 3 give solar value 38, which is the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1947 is unused. The Queen of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Mike Burton for United States. Quoted system copy for the Queen of Diamonds, not a biography of Mike Burton: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety. You create material security and abundance for those around you. You're generous, nurturing, and capable. You make others feel materially safe.

Live Queen of Diamonds meaning page

Mike Burton in the public record

He would later have a career as a swimming coach. In eighth grade, Burton was hit by a furniture truck while riding a bicycle with a friend. He had formerly loved to play football and basketball, but the injuries he sustained from his accident made him abandon contact sports, and left swimming as one of his few fitness options. He graduated from El Camino High School. Benefitting from his highly competitive club coaching at Arden Hills, Burden won 10 AAU titles while at El Camino. Burton attended the University of California at Los Angeles where he swam for Hall of Fame Coach Bob Horn. He won individual NCAA titles five times during his swimming years at UCLA from 1967-1970. During his collegiate years, his AAU titles included the 500 Free (1970), 1650 Free (1967, 1968, 1970), and 200 Fly (1970), and he was named an All-American for winning these events.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Hearts

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 Mike Burton, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Mike Burton'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.

You start real connection on purpose: you say what you feel and leave room for the other person to answer. You're wired to open the door to connection first, to reach for intimacy before anyone else dares. Feeling is your native language, and you lead with your heart. You're the one who says it first, who risks the vulnerable opening move.

A♥ — PRC Karma — Environment, fixed to the Q♦, from the published Ace of Hearts meaning

At the 1500-meter event at the Munich Games, Burton started fast and was the early leader over Australian star Graham Windeatt, though Windeatt recovered and regained the lead.

Paired on shared wording: leader, started.

Also on the record

  1. In conference play, he was a four-time Pac-10 champion at UCLA, and helped lead the Bruins to the Pac-10 Championship Team Title in 1970.
  2. He entered the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame as a Charter Member.
  3. At the 1967 University Games in Tokyo, Japan, he won a gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle, ahead of Russian Semyon Belits-Geiman.
  4. Burton won two gold medals in individual events at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City: the 400-meter freestyle where he swam a 4:09.0 and the 1,500-meter freestyle where he swam a 16:38.9.

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FAQ

What is Mike Burton's birth card?
The Queen of Diamonds. July 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Mike Burton'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 Mike Burton's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1947-07-03 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Mike Burton, 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 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 (Q640504; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mike Burton (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1947-07-03 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.