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Hal Holbrook's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

1966 Best Actor in a Play (Mark Twain Tonight!)

Born February 17, 1925

Died January 23, 2021

The Businessman

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

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for February 17 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1966 Best Actor in a Play (Mark Twain Tonight!) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Hal Holbrook's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Hal Holbrook. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

Live 8 of Diamonds meaning page

Hal Holbrook in the public record

He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show, titled Mark Twain Tonight!, that he developed while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He continued to perform his signature role for more than 60 years, retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film. Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1974 miniseries Lincoln and the 1985 miniseries North and South. He also appeared in films such as Magnum Force (1973), Julia, Capricorn One (both 1977), The Fog (1980), Creepshow (1982), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), Hercules (1997) and Men of Honor (2000).

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

Where the record meets the Queen 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 Hal Holbrook, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Cards in Hal Holbrook's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

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.

Deep wisdom and understanding

Q♠ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 8♦, from the published Queen of Spades meaning

He continued to perform his signature role for more than 60 years, retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: health.

Also on the record

  1. Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007) earned nominations for both an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award in the best supporting actor category.
  2. In 2009, he received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer Abner Meecham in the independent film That Evening Sun.
  3. He also portrayed Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
  4. In 2003, Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W.

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FAQ

What is Hal Holbrook's birth card?
The 8 of Diamonds. February 17 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 Hal Holbrook's dates come from?
Birth date 1925-02-17 is the day-precision date on Hal Holbrook'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 (Q314801) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Hal Holbrook). Birth date 1925-02-17 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).