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Neil Walker's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born June 25, 1976

United States

The Dynamic Innovator

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

Neil Scott Walker (born June 25, 1976) is an American former competition swimmer for the University of Texas, a four-time Olympic medalist in the 4x100 Medley and Freestyle relays, an Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in multiple events. The birth-card coordinate for June 25 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Neil Walker'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 2000 and 2004. 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 Neil Walker (Q656894), not a reading of character. 2000 2000 Summer Olympics: gold in 2000 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2000: gold in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming. 2004 2004 Summer Olympics: gold in 2004 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2004: gold in swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

Neil Walker was born June 25 (1976-06-25). Month 6 and day 25 give solar value 18, which is the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1976 is unused. The 5 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Neil Walker for United States. Quoted system copy for the 5 of Clubs, not a biography of Neil Walker: You pressure-test a stale idea in public and let the better one win. Your mind craves novelty, variety, and freedom. You get bored easily and need constant stimulation. You're the one who disrupts stale thinking.

Live 5 of Clubs meaning page

Neil Walker in the public record

After setting records in nearly every stroke, including the individual medley, and capturing a total of ten long and short course gold medals at five World Championships, he has been described as one of the most accomplished multi-stroke athletes in the history of American swimming. After retiring as a competitive swimmer, he became a swim coach in Texas, and as of 2025 coached outside Dallas, Texas at the Rockwall Aquatics Center of Excellence (RACE) in Rockwall, Texas. Walker was born June 25, 1976 to Robert and Barbara Walker in Verona, Wisconsin, ten miles Southwest of Madison. He began swimming competitively around the age of nine, and at the age of ten at the Badger Dolphin January Classic on January 10, 1987, swam the 50 backstroke in a meet record time of 34.91. Walker swam for the Verona Aquatic Club under Coach Randy Trowbridge, and in his High School years, swam for the Verona Area High School, where he attended. Trowbridge coached at Verona Aquatics from 1979 until the club folded in 2013. Walker graduated Verona Area High School in 1994 with a 3.65 grade average. T Walker's workouts after graduating High School in the summer of 1994 consisted of swim training twice a day at least five days a week, with weight training several days a week, and a 30 minute run twice a week.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Clubs

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Cards in Neil Walker'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.

Quick thinking and fast adaptation

5♣ — Birth Card, from the published 5 of Clubs meaning

After retiring as a competitive swimmer, he became a swim coach in Texas, and as of 2025 coached outside Dallas, Texas at the Rockwall Aquatics Center of Excellence (RACE) in Rockwall, Texas.

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

Also on the record

  1. During his time with the Verona Club, he led the team to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Div 2 team title in 1993, setting a state record in the 200 IM of 1:50.86 and a state record in 1994 of 49.61 in the 100 backstroke.
  2. His state records remained in place for decades.
  3. In the summer after high school graduation, he was ranked 25th in the world in the 100-meter backstroke.
  4. Walker was offered athletic scholarships to Arizona, Florida, Auburn, Texas, and the University of Southern California.

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FAQ

What is Neil Walker's birth card?
The 5 of Clubs. June 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Neil Walker'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 Neil Walker's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1976-06-25 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Neil Walker, 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 (Q656894; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Neil Walker (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1976-06-25 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.