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Ricky Berens's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born April 21, 1988

United States

The Master Leader

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

Richard Berens (born April 21, 1988) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and current world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for April 21 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Ricky Berens'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 2008 and 2012. 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 Ricky Berens (Q138330), not a reading of character. 2008 2008 Summer Olympics: gold in 2008 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2008: gold in swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 2012 2012 Summer Olympics: gold in 2012 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2012: gold in swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Ricky Berens was born April 21 (1988-04-21). Month 4 and day 21 give solar value 26, which is the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1988 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Ricky Berens for United States. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Ricky Berens: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it. You command through clarity and competence. You're the authority, the decision-maker, the one people look to for direction. Your thinking is decisive and clear.

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Ricky Berens in the public record

As a member of the U.S. national team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay (long course). He competed in the 4×100-meter and 4×200-meter freestyle relay events, as well as the individual 200-meter freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Berens was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. After graduating from South Mecklenburg High School, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, and swam for coach Eddie Reese's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 2007 to 2010. During his collegiate career at Texas, Berens was a 20-time All-American, member of two NCAA champion relay teams, and key contributor to the Longhorns 2010 NCAA team title. He graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in finance in 2010, and relocated to Los Angeles shortly thereafter to train with coach Dave Salo at Trojan Aquatics. At the 2007 Pan American Games, Berens won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, and silver medals in both the 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×200-meter freestyle relays. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Berens won the gold medal in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay with Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Peter Vanderkaay, setting a new world record of 6:58.56.

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

Where the record meets the 2 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 Ricky Berens, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Ricky Berens'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 hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

2♠ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the K♣, from the published 2 of Spades meaning

Richard Berens (born April 21, 1988) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and current world record-holder.

Paired on shared wording: holder, world.

Also on the record

  1. Berens swam the third leg in a relay split time of 1:46.29.
  2. Berens was the only member of the finals team to swim in the preliminary heats, posting a time of 1:45.47, just faster than Klete Keller's 1:45.51, to be selected to swim in the final.
  3. Berens swam the third leg of the 4×100-meter freestyle preliminaries at the 2009 World Championships in Rome and earned a gold medal when the U.S. team placed first in the final.
  4. Berens also swam in both the preliminaries and final of the 4×200-meter freestyle, which won gold.

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FAQ

What is Ricky Berens's birth card?
The King of Clubs. April 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Ricky Berens'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 Ricky Berens's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1988-04-21 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Ricky Berens, 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 (Q138330; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ricky Berens; infobox match). Birth date 1988-04-21 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.