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Roland Matthes's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born November 17, 1950

East Germany

Died December 20, 2019

The Creative Communicator

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

Roland Matthes (, ; 17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. The birth-card coordinate for November 17 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Roland Matthes's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for East Germany 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 Roland Matthes (Q163055), not a reading of character. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre backstroke in competitive swimming. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre backstroke in competitive swimming. 1972: gold in swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre backstroke in competitive swimming. 1972: gold in swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre backstroke in competitive swimming.

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Roland Matthes was born November 17 (1950-11-17). Month 11 and day 17 give solar value 16, which is the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1950 is unused. The 3 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Roland Matthes for East Germany. Quoted system copy for the 3 of Clubs, not a biography of Roland Matthes: You make a hard idea easy to say without stripping what it means. Complex ideas become clear through your expression. You have the gift of making difficult concepts accessible. Your creativity makes thinking feel alive.

Live 3 of Clubs meaning page

Roland Matthes in the public record

Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European championships and three world championships in a row, and swam 19 world and 28 European records in various backstroke, butterfly and medley events. He was trained by Marlies Grohe. As an Olympian in 1968, 1972 and 1976 he won a total of eight medals (four gold, two silver and two bronze): In 1968 and 1972 he won gold in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke, while in 1976 he was third in the 100 m backstroke. In addition to these individual events, he won the 4 × 100 m team medley silver in 1968 and 1972, and a bronze medal for the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 1972. At Montreal, he was the only East German male swimmer to win a medal. In 1973 in Belgrade he became the first world champion holding the titles in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke. Additionally he won silver in the 4 × 100 m medley and bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Roland Matthes, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Roland Matthes'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 stay kind without picking up what is not yours. You're wired for a love that extends beyond the personal—compassion for people, causes, and the world. You feel others' pain as your own and are moved to ease it. At your best, you carry deep wisdom about what to hold and what to release.

9♥ — Life Spread — Venus, fixed to the 3♣, from the published 9 of Hearts meaning

In 1973 in Belgrade he became the first world champion holding the titles in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke.

Paired on shared wording: holding, world. This line comes from the Venus position of the 3♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. Two years later in 1975 he defended his world title in the 100 m backstroke.
  2. At the European championships in 1970 in Barcelona and 1974 in Vienna he won all four titles for the 100 and 200 m backstroke.
  3. Additionally, in Barcelona he won the individual silver for the 100 m freestyle, gold with the 4 × 100 m medley team, and bronze with both the 4×100 and 4 × 200 m freestyle teams.
  4. In Vienna, he also won the individual silver for 100 m butterfly, and bronze with the 4 × 100 m freestyle team.

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FAQ

What is Roland Matthes's birth card?
The 3 of Clubs. November 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Roland Matthes'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 Roland Matthes's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1950-11-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Roland Matthes, 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 (Q163055; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Roland Matthes; infobox match). Birth date 1950-11-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.