Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Peter Finch's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts
The Compassionate Idealist
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
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English and Australian actor. The birth-card coordinate for September 28 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1977 Best Actor — Network win.
Academy Award record
- 1977 Best Actor — Network
The 9 of Hearts coordinate
Peter Finch's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). 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 Peter Finch. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.
Peter Finch in the public record
Born in London, he emigrated to Australia at the age of ten and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudeville and radio before becoming a star of Australian films. Joining the Old Vic Company after World War II, he achieved widespread critical success in Britain for both stage and screen performances. One of British cinema's most celebrated leading men of the time, Finch won five BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and the Academy Award in the same category for his portrayal of crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network. He died only two months before the 49th Academy Awards, making him the first person to win a posthumous Oscar in an acting category. According to the British Film Institute, "it is arguable that no other actor ever chalked up such a rewarding CV in British films, and he accumulated the awards to bolster this view".
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Peter Finch (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 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 Peter Finch, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Peter Finch's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Financial Foundation 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.
Analytical thinking about financial decisions
Joining the Old Vic Company after World War II, he achieved widespread critical success in Britain for both stage and screen performances.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: company.
Other winners with this card
- Shirley Booth — 1953 Best Actress — Come Back, Little Sheba
FAQ
- What is Peter Finch's birth card?
- The 9 of Hearts. September 28 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 Peter Finch's dates come from?
- Birth date 1916-09-28 is the day-precision date on Peter Finch'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, Peter Finch) + Wikidata CC0 (Q294454). Birth date 1916-09-28 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).