Academy Award Best Actress · birth-card coordinate
Patricia Neal's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds
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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
Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. The birth-card coordinate for January 20 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1964 Best Actress — Hud win.
Academy Award record
- 1964 Best Actress — Hud
The 7 of Diamonds coordinate
Patricia Neal's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 Patricia Neal. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.
Patricia Neal in the public record
She is well known for, among other roles, playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963) (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress). She also featured as the matriarch in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it inspired, The Waltons. A major star of the 1950s and 1960s, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Patricia Neal (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 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 Patricia Neal, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Patricia Neal's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- K♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- K♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 2♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Loving Partner
- A♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Pioneer
- 2♦ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Financial Partner
- J♠ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Ambitious Builder
- 6♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Generous Provider
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Rigid Truth
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 stay kind without picking up what is not yours. You're wired for a love that extends beyond the personal—compassion for people, causes, and the world. You feel others' pain as your own and are moved to ease it. At your best, you carry deep wisdom about what to hold and what to release.
She is well known for, among other roles, playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963) (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress).
Paired on shared wording: best, world.
Other winners with this card
- Adrien Brody — 2003 Best Actor — The Pianist; 2025 Best Actor — The Brutalist
- Julie Christie — 1966 Best Actress — Darling
- Katharine Hepburn — 1934 Best Actress — Morning Glory; 1968 Best Actress — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; 1969 Best Actress — The Lion in Winter; 1982 Best Actress — On Golden Pond
- Michelle Yeoh — 2023 Best Actress — Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Rami Malek — 2019 Best Actor — Bohemian Rhapsody
- Rod Steiger — 1968 Best Actor — In the Heat of the Night
FAQ
- What is Patricia Neal's birth card?
- The 7 of Diamonds. January 20 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 Patricia Neal's dates come from?
- Birth date 1926-01-20 is the day-precision date on Patricia Neal'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, Patricia Neal) + Wikidata CC0 (Q191027). Birth date 1926-01-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).