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Shirley Babashoff's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born January 31, 1957

United States

The Humanitarian Builder

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

Shirley Frances Babashoff (born January 31, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. The birth-card coordinate for January 31 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Shirley Babashoff'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 1972 and 1976. 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 Shirley Babashoff (Q253529), not a reading of character. 1972 1972 Summer Olympics: gold in 1972 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1972: gold in swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1976 1976 Summer Olympics: gold in 1976 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Shirley Babashoff was born January 31 (1957-01-31). Month 1 and day 31 give solar value 22, which is the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1957 is unused. The 9 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Shirley Babashoff for United States. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Clubs, not a biography of Shirley Babashoff: You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift.

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Shirley Babashoff in the public record

Babashoff set six world records and earned a total of nine Olympic medals in her career. She won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and she won the 1975 world championship in both the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle. During her career, she set 37 national records (17 individual and 20 relay) and for some time held all national freestyle records from the 100-meter to 800-meter events. After trying private lessons, Shirley began taking swimming lessons around the age of eight at Cerritos College, a junior college in Los Angeles County's Norwalk, California, as did her brother Jack Babashoff, who would also become an Olympic swimmer in 1976. At nine, Shirley swam for the Buena Park Splashers with her brother Jack, later swimming for a club in El Monte, California coached by Don La Mont, a talented coach. Beginning around the age of 13 in 1970, Shirley swam at Golden West College in Huntington Beach for a company-sponsored team, Phillips 66, under coach Ralph "Flip" Darr through her junior year in high school. Darr coached swimmers who swam in four separate Olympics. Shirley attended meets from an early age, and under Darr, she began to set age group records.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 Shirley Babashoff, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Shirley Babashoff'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 make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.

10♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus, fixed to the 9♣, from the published 10 of Hearts meaning

Although Babashoff never won an individual gold medal in Olympic competition, she is still regarded as one of the top swimmers in history, and is most vividly remembered for having swum the anchor leg on the gold-medal-winning 4×100-meter freestyle relay team, in its victory over the doped up, steroid-plagued 1976 East German women, in what is widely acknowledged as one of the single most memorable races in the entire history of women's swimming.

Paired on shared wording: individual, still. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 4♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. After Flip Darr resigned from coaching during her junior year in high school, Shirley began swimming for the Mission Viejo Nadadores, one of America's top swimming programs coached by Hall of Fame Coach Mark Schubert.
  2. Shirley excelled under Schubert's long and challenging workouts, which included a focus on improving her fly, back, and breaststroke skills, and included managed weight training.
  3. By the 1972 Olympics, Shirley was one of the top women freestylers in the country.
  4. She continued to work with the Nadadores and Schubert as her primary source of training until the 1976 Olympics, and led the team to win the AAU Short Course Championships in April, 1975.

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FAQ

What is Shirley Babashoff's birth card?
The 9 of Clubs. January 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Shirley Babashoff'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 Shirley Babashoff's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1957-01-31 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Shirley Babashoff, 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 (Q253529; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Shirley Babashoff; infobox match). Birth date 1957-01-31 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.