Tony Award · leading acting · birth-card coordinate
Chita Rivera's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds
The Financial Foundation Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero (January 23, 1933 – January 30, 2024), known professionally as Chita Rivera, was an American actress, singer, and dancer. The birth-card coordinate for January 23 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1984 Best Actress in a Musical (The Rink); 1993 Best Actress in a Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1984 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — The Rink as Anna
- 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — Kiss of the Spider Woman as Aurora / Spider Woman
The 4 of Diamonds coordinate
Chita Rivera's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). 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 a Tony Award and not a verdict on Chita Rivera. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.
Chita Rivera in the public record
Rivera received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, and a Drama League Award. She was the first Latina and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. She won the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018. After making her Broadway debut as a dancer in Guys and Dolls (1950), she went on to originate roles in Broadway musicals such as Anita in West Side Story (1957), Velma Kelly in Chicago (1975), and the title role in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). She was a ten-time Tony Award nominee, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical twice for her roles in The Rink (1984) and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1961), Chicago (1975), Bring Back Birdie (1981), Merlin (1983), Jerry's Girls (1986), Nine (2003), Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (2005), and The Visit (2015). Rivera acted in the film Sweet Charity (1969) and appeared in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), and Tick, Tick...
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Chita Rivera (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Chita Rivera's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♦ — Birth Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♥ — Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 10♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Master Builder
- 4♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Rigid Truth
- J♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Messenger of Truth
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Completed Mind
- 5♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Dynamic Innovator
- 3♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Success Communicator
- A♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Truth Pioneer
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 4♦, 5♥, 5♠, 10♣, 4♠, J♠, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- Boom! (2021).
- She played Connie Richardson in the CBS sitcom The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973–1974).
- She also appeared on television in The Judy Garland Show (1963), The Carol Burnett Show (1971), and Will & Grace (2005).
- Her autobiography, Chita: A Memoir, was published in 2023.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Anna Maria Alberghetti — 1962 Best Actress in a Musical (Carnival!)
- Basil Rathbone — 1948 Best Actor in a Play (The Heiress)
- Bette Midler — 2017 Best Actress in a Musical (Hello, Dolly!)
- Christine Ebersole — 2001 Best Actress in a Musical (42nd Street); 2007 Best Actress in a Musical (Grey Gardens)
- Constance Cummings — 1979 Best Actress in a Play (Wings)
- Glenn Close — 1984 Best Actress in a Play (The Real Thing); 1992 Best Actress in a Play (Death and the Maiden); 1995 Best Actress in a Musical (Sunset Boulevard)
- Glynis Johns — 1973 Best Actress in a Musical (A Little Night Music)
- Heather Headley — 2000 Best Actress in a Musical (Aida)
- Mary Martin — 1950 Best Actress in a Musical (South Pacific); 1955 Best Actress in a Musical (Peter Pan); 1960 Best Actress in a Musical (The Sound of Music)
- Paul Kelly — 1948 Best Actor in a Play (Command Decision)
- Sarah Snook — 2025 Best Actress in a Play ('''The Picture of Dorian Gray''')
- Thomas Mitchell — 1953 Best Actor in a Musical (Hazel Flagg)
- 1 more leading winners share this card.
FAQ
- What is Chita Rivera's birth card?
- The 4 of Diamonds. January 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
- 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 Chita Rivera's dates come from?
- Birth date 1933-01-23 is the day-precision date on Chita Rivera's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q450918) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Chita Rivera). Birth date 1933-01-23 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).