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Helen Hayes's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
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
Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for October 10 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1947 Best Actress in a Play (Happy Birthday); 1958 Best Actress in a Play (Time Remembered) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Happy Birthday as Addie Bemis
- 1958 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Time Remembered as The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Helen Hayes's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Helen Hayes. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Helen Hayes in the public record
Often referred to as the "First Lady of American Theatre", she was the second person and first woman to win the EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award), and the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, D.C., since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Theatre District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was demolished in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest leading ladies of the 20th-century theatre. Her career spanned 82 years.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Helen Hayes's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — 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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for Q♣, 10♦, 3♥, 5♣, 4♣, 5♥, 10♠, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- A leading philanthropist in later decades, Hayes was most proud of her 49-year association with the Helen Hayes Hospital, a non-profit rehabilitative center overlooking the Hudson River in West Haverstraw, New York.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Barnard Hughes — 1978 Best Actor in a Play (Da)
- Ben Vereen — 1973 Best Actor in a Musical (Pippin)
- George Hearn — 1984 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
- Jackie Gleason — 1960 Best Actor in a Musical (Take Me Along)
- James Naughton — 1990 Best Actor in a Musical (City of Angels); 1997 Best Actor in a Musical (Chicago)
- Marcia Gay Harden — 2009 Best Actress in a Play (God of Carnage)
- Margaret Leighton — 1957 Best Actress in a Play (Separate Tables); 1962 Best Actress in a Play (The Night of the Iguana)
- Robert Alda — 1951 Best Actor in a Musical (Guys and Dolls)
- Victoria Clark — 2005 Best Actress in a Musical (The Light in the Piazza); 2023 Best Actress in a Musical (Kimberly Akimbo)
FAQ
- What is Helen Hayes's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. October 10 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 Helen Hayes's dates come from?
- Birth date 1900-10-10 is the day-precision date on Helen Hayes'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 (Q213302) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Helen Hayes). Birth date 1900-10-10 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).