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Tracy Caulkins's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born January 11, 1963

United States

The Sorrowful Truth

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

Tracy Anne Stockwell, OAM, (born January 11, 1963), née Tracy Anne Caulkins, is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time world champion, and former world record-holder in three events. The birth-card coordinate for January 11 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Tracy Caulkins'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 1984. 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 Tracy Caulkins (Q238782), not a reading of character. 1984 1984 Summer Olympics: gold in 1984 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – women's 200 metre individual medley in competitive swimming. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – women's 400 metre individual medley in competitive swimming.

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Tracy Caulkins was born January 11 (1963-01-11). Month 1 and day 11 give solar value 42, which is the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1963 is unused. The 3 of Spades does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Tracy Caulkins for United States. Quoted system copy for the 3 of Spades, not a biography of Tracy Caulkins: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue. You see what's wrong, what's broken, what's unfair. Your mind is naturally oriented toward problems and suffering. You're the truth-teller about darkness.

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Tracy Caulkins in the public record

Caulkins was noted for her versatility and ability in all four major competitive swimming strokes: the butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle. Caulkins won forty-eight national championships and set American records in all four strokes over a range of distances as well as in the individual medley (IM) events, which combine all four strokes over the course of a single race. Her versatility brought Caulkins many titles and awards, and as a result she is considered one of the greatest swimmers of all time. By the time she retired from competitive swimming in 1984, Caulkins had set five world records and 63 American records (more than any other American swimmer, male or female). Caulkins was born in Winona, Minnesota, in 1963 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee with her family at the age of 6, in 1969. She swam for the Westside Victory Swim club and later the Nashville Aquatic Club (NAC) in Nashville, where she was trained by future University of Texas and U.S. Olympic coach Paul Bergen. For her high school education, she attended the all-girls Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds

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 Tracy Caulkins, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Tracy Caulkins'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 try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

J♦ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the 3♠, from the published Jack of Diamonds meaning

She followed her World Championship success with a series of dominating finishes in U.S. competition.

Paired on shared wording: finishes, success.

Also on the record

  1. Caulkins's older sister Amy was also a competition swimmer and water polo player.
  2. As a nine-year-old, Caulkins had been training as a swimmer for a little over a year when she watched the 1972 Munich Olympics on television, and decided that she wanted to swim in the Olympics and win a gold medal.
  3. In a 1997 interview, Caulkins credited her Olympic dream as her inspiration and motivation.
  4. Thirteen-year-old Caulkins competed in her first U.S. national swimming championships in 1976.

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FAQ

What is Tracy Caulkins's birth card?
The 3 of Spades. January 11 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Tracy Caulkins'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 Tracy Caulkins's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1963-01-11 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Tracy Caulkins, 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 (Q238782; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Tracy Caulkins; infobox match). Birth date 1963-01-11 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.