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Sammy Lee's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

2 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving

Born August 1, 1920

United States

Died December 2, 2016

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

Samuel "Sammy" Lee (August 1, 1920 – December 2, 2016) was an American physician and diver. The birth-card coordinate for August 1 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Sammy Lee's 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving for United States across 1948 and 1952. 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 Sammy Lee (Q702306), not a reading of character. 1948: gold in diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 10 metre platform in diving. 1952: gold in diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – men's 10 metre platform in diving.

The Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Sammy Lee was born August 1 (1920-08-01). Month 8 and day 1 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 1920 is unused. The Queen of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Sammy Lee for United States. Quoted system copy for the Queen of Diamonds, not a biography of Sammy Lee: 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.

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Sammy Lee in the public record

He was the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States (the second Asian American to win a gold medal overall) and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving. Lee was born in Fresno, California, to parents of Korean descent who owned what he described as "a little chop suey restaurant". His father was fluent in English and Korean, tutored in French, graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Occidental College, and opened a chop suey restaurant and market. As a twelve-year-old living near Los Angeles in 1932, Lee saw and was motivated by the many Olympics banners and souvenirs on display for the Summer Olympics being held in Los Angeles that year. Later that summer, he found that he could do somersaults much better than all of his friends, which led to his goal of becoming an Olympic champion in diving. Lee's parents moved to Highland Park, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. At the time, however, Latinos, Asians and African-Americans were only allowed to use the nearby Brookside Park Plunge in Pasadena on Wednesdays, on what was called "international day,” the day before the pool was scheduled to be drained and refilled with clean water. Because Lee needed a place to practice and could not regularly use the public pool, his coach dug a pit in his backyard and filled it with sand.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Sammy Lee, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Sammy Lee's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, Q♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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.

Ability to see what needs fixing

3♠ — Life Spread — Mars, fixed to the Q♦, from the published 3 of Spades meaning

Samuel "Sammy" Lee (August 1, 1920 – December 2, 2016) was an American physician and diver.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physician. This line comes from the Mars position of the Q♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. Lee practiced by jumping into the pit.
  2. Lee attended Franklin High School and later was a student-athlete at Occidental, where he received his undergraduate degree before attending the University of Southern California School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. in 1947.
  3. He joined the Army Reserve to pay for his medical school tuition.
  4. In 1996 Lee was interviewed by Huell Howser in California's Gold Episode 702.

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FAQ

What is Sammy Lee's birth card?
The Queen of Diamonds. August 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Sammy Lee'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 Sammy Lee's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1920-08-01 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Sammy Lee, 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 (2 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving) 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 (Q702306; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Sammy Lee (diver); infobox match). Birth date 1920-08-01 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.