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Petria Thomas's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs
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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
Petria Ann Thomas, (born 25 August 1975) is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medallist and a winner of 15 national titles. The birth-card coordinate for August 25 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Petria Thomas's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Australia across 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 Petria Thomas (Q232816), not a reading of character. 2004 2004 Summer Olympics: gold in 2004 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2004: gold in swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's 100 metre butterfly in competitive swimming. 2004: gold in swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 2004: gold in swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.
- 2004 2004 Summer Olympics — 2004 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
- 2004 swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's 100 metre butterfly (competitive swimming)
- 2004 swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
- 2004 swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (competitive swimming)
The Ace of Clubs coordinate
Petria Thomas was born August 25 (1975-08-25). Month 8 and day 25 give solar value 14, which is the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1975 is unused. The Ace of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Petria Thomas for Australia. Quoted system copy for the Ace of Clubs, not a biography of Petria Thomas: You start the new thought while it is still usable. Ideas come through you first. You're the one who thinks of the new thing, the new way, the new possibility. Your mind is restless, always generating.
Petria Thomas in the public record
She was born in Lismore, New South Wales, and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby, where she has a community pool named in her honour. In 1993, at the age of 17, Thomas won a bronze medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the World Short Course Championships. She followed this with two gold medals, in the 100-metre butterfly and 4×100-metre freestyle in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. However, she then struggled for two years, until making a comeback at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. She won a silver medal, finishing second to fellow Australian Susie O'Neill. Despite being plagued by a shoulder injury, Thomas repeated her 1994 Commonwealth Games effort at the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur. She also won a bronze in the 100-metre butterfly and a silver in the 200-metre at the World Championships in Perth, the same year. She had similar success at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000, winning three medals – bronze in the 200-metre butterfly, silver in the 4×100-metre medley, and silver in the 4×200-metre freestyle.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Petria Thomas (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 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 Petria Thomas, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Petria Thomas's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♥ — Life Spread — 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.
Genuine diplomacy and emotional attunement
She was born in Lismore, New South Wales, and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby, where she has a community pool named in her honour.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: community.
Also on the record
- Thomas had always struggled to surpass O'Neill, despite being talented in her own right.
- However, after the 2000 games, O'Neill retired, and Thomas, despite battling recurring injuries, decided to continue.
- The decision paid off when she won three gold medals at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
- She won both the 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly, and then was part of the winning 4×100-metre medley relay team.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Jessicah Schipper — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Joseph Jackson — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in bullseye shooting, shooting sports
- Lü Xiaojun — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in weightlifting
- Theresa Andrews — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- David Rudisha — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics
- Domenico Fioravanti — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Lavinia Miloșovici — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Li Xiaopeng — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Lones Wigger — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Zhao Yunlei — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in badminton
FAQ
- What is Petria Thomas's birth card?
- The Ace of Clubs. August 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Petria Thomas'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 Petria Thomas's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1975-08-25 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Petria Thomas, 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 (Q232816; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Petria Thomas; infobox match). Birth date 1975-08-25 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.