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Barack Obama's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

2008 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama; 2012 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama

Born August 4, 1961

The Universal Provider

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a TIME Person of the Year.

In the record

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president. Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961. The birth-card coordinate for August 4 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Barack Obama's 2008 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama; 2012 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama.

TIME Person of the Year record

Barack Obama's 2008 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “Barack Obama” (Barack Obama is the sole named human listed for that year). Barack Obama's 2012 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “Barack Obama” (Barack Obama is the sole named human listed for that year). Barack Obama is listed as the sole named human for each TIME Person of the Year year in this pack. The harvested English Wikipedia title for Barack Obama matches the list name. Barack Obama is Wikidata Q76. Honor years kept for Barack Obama: 2008, 2012. Choice labels kept: 2008 Barack Obama; 2012 Barack Obama. Barack Obama's Wikipedia infobox day is 1961-08-04; Wikidata P569 is 1961-08-04 (match). TIME vault (https://time.com/vault/) is context for Barack Obama's honor and is not a date source. August 4 maps to 9♦ for Barack Obama. This page stores no day-precision Wikidata P570 death date for Barack Obama. The Wikipedia REST summary used for Barack Obama is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama. No childhood, private address, or invented birthday is added for Barack Obama.

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 (1961-08-04). Month 8 and day 4 give solar value 35, which is the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1961 is unused, so Barack Obama's 1961 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Diamonds does not predict a TIME Person of the Year selection and is not a verdict on Barack Obama. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Diamonds, not a biography of Barack Obama: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back. You think about resources in terms of universal good and human need. You want to provide for humanity. Your vision is about abundance for all. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Diamonds: Visionary thinking about resource distribution; Generous impulse toward universal good; Ability to inspire others to contribute; Natural idealism about abundance. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that you can't help anyone if you destroy yourself. You're learning to secure your own oxygen mask first.

Live 9 of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president. Obama represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008 and served as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Barack Obama in the public record

A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president. Obama represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008 and served as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Born in Honolulu, Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and later worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, Obama enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. He became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. In 1996, Obama was elected to represent the 13th district in the Illinois Senate. In 2000, Obama ran for Illinois's 1st congressional district, but came in second to the incumbent Representative, Bobby Rush. Following his loss in the House race, he kept his position he held in the State Senate until 2004, when he successfully ran for the U.S.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Barack Obama, and not a forecast of the cover of Time.

Cards in Barack Obama's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 9♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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 build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it. You build secure, stable financial foundations. You're good with systems, planning, and long-term security. Your mind thinks in terms of legacy and stability.

4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus, fixed to the 9♦, from the published 4 of Diamonds meaning

During his first term, his administration responded to the 2008 financial crisis with measures including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to address the Great Recession; a partial extension of the Bush tax cuts; legislation to reform health care; and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a major financial regulation reform bill.

Paired on shared wording: financial, term. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 9♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. Senate.
  2. In the 2008 presidential election, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president.
  3. Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate and defeated Republican nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin.
  4. Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts in international diplomacy, a decision that drew both praise and criticism.

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FAQ

What is Barack Obama's birth card?
The 9 of Diamonds. August 4 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Barack Obama's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a TIME Person of the Year?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast magazine covers, character, or fate.
Where do Barack Obama's dates and TIME Person of the Year credits come from?
Birth date 1961-08-04 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Barack Obama, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia TIME Person of the Year list. Duals are split per named human. Abstractions, machines, and groups-as-concepts are omitted. The honor line is 2008 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama; 2012 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama. TIME vault is context only and is not used as a date source. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (TIME Person of the Year list, Barack Obama) + Wikidata CC0 (Q76). Birth date 1961-08-04 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match). TIME vault (time.com/vault) is context only and is not a date source.