Academy Award Best Actress · birth-card coordinate
Loretta Young's Birth Card: The 8 of Spades
The Powerful Mind
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
Loretta Young (born Gretchen Michaela Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for January 6 is the 8 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1948 Best Actress — The Farmer's Daughter win.
Academy Award record
- 1948 Best Actress — The Farmer's Daughter
The 8 of Spades coordinate
Loretta Young's birthday maps to the 8 of Spades (The Powerful Mind). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Loretta Young. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.
Loretta Young in the public record
Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949). She also starred in films such as Born to Be Bad (1934), Call of the Wild (1935), The Crusades (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), The Stranger (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), and Key to the City (1950). Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. It earned three Primetime Emmy Awards, and was rerun successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. She also starred in The New Loretta Young Show from 1962 to 1963. Young returned to the small screen in the 1980s starring in two NBC television movies, Christmas Eve (1986), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and Lady in a Corner (1989).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Loretta Young (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 Loretta Young, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Loretta Young's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♠ — Birth Card: The Powerful Mind
- 6♣ — Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Creator
- K♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Master Leader
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- A♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- A♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Communicator
- K♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wealthy King
- 5♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Wise Guide
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Messenger
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Collaborative Builder
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
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949).
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: farmer.
Other winners with this card
- Eddie Redmayne — 2015 Best Actor — The Theory of Everything
- Jennifer Jones — 1944 Best Actress — The Song of Bernadette
FAQ
- What is Loretta Young's birth card?
- The 8 of Spades. January 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Loretta Young's dates come from?
- Birth date 1913-01-06 is the day-precision date on Loretta Young's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Loretta Young) + Wikidata CC0 (Q253384). Birth date 1913-01-06 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).