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Susan Pedersen's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs
The Nurturing Creator
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
Susan "Sue" Jane Pedersen (born October 16, 1953), also known by her married name Susan Pankey, is an American former competition swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in two events. The birth-card coordinate for October 16 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Susan Pedersen's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1968. 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 Susan Pedersen (Q453268), not a reading of character. 1968 1968 Summer Olympics: gold in 1968 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.
- 1968 1968 Summer Olympics — 1968 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
- 1968 swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
- 1968 swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (competitive swimming)
The 6 of Clubs coordinate
Susan Pedersen was born October 16 (1953-10-16). Month 10 and day 16 give solar value 19, which is the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1953 is unused. The 6 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Susan Pedersen for United States. Quoted system copy for the 6 of Clubs, not a biography of Susan Pedersen: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson. You have knowledge and a natural urge to share it. You think best when you're helping someone else understand. Your mind is oriented toward wisdom.
Susan Pedersen in the public record
As a 15-year-old, Pedersen represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a total of four medals. She won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, and another swimming for the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, while setting Olympic records in both. Individually, she received silver medals for her second-place finishes in the women's 100-meter freestyle (1:00.3), and women's 200-meter individual medley. She held the world record in the 200-meter freestyle (2:09.5) from July 6, 1968, to August 2, 1968. She was also a member of world-record U.S. teams in the 4×100-meter medley relay and the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Pedersen was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1995.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Susan Pedersen (swimmer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 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 Susan Pedersen, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Susan Pedersen's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Creator
- 2♦ — Karma — Environment: The Financial Partner
- 8♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Powerful Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- K♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- A♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
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.
Strategic and powerful thinking
Susan "Sue" Jane Pedersen (born October 16, 1953), also known by her married name Susan Pankey, is an American former competition swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in two events.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Chen Ruolin — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving
- Einar Liberg — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Lasse Virén — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics
- Alfred Swahn — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Anthony Ervin — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Bradley Wiggins — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in track cycling, road bicycle racing
- Courtney Shealy — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Melissa Belote — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Natasa Dusev-Janics — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- André Willms — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in rowing
- Cătălina Ponor — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- 4 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Susan Pedersen's birth card?
- The 6 of Clubs. October 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Susan Pedersen'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 Susan Pedersen's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1953-10-16 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Susan Pedersen, 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 (3 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 (Q453268; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Susan Pedersen (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1953-10-16 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.