Happy Birthday

January 1st

 

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Because you are born on the date of January 1st, it means you are born to play the King of Spades with a 5 of Clubs personality.

The King of Spades is the primary pattern of your life. It is like your Avatar. It's your entrance token to the game of your life.

The 5 of Clubs is the secondary pattern of your life. It reflects your outward personality and may rule your behavior.

Famous people born on January 1st

All of these people share your cards to play. Like you, they were born to play the King of Spades overlaid with a 5 of Clubs personality.

Notice the recurring themes in their lives.


Paul Revere

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

During the American Revolution, he is famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride;" in truth, there were about 40 other riders that famous night, all riding throughout the area to alert the colonial militia of the approach of British troops, but Paul Revere is the only one immortalized for that midnight ride


Betsy Ross

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

Seamstress credited with creating the first American flag; in reality, she did not create the design of the flag, and as a seamstress, she was just one of a group of woman in Philadelphia employed to sew flags during and after the American Revolution; when she was later included in Charles Weisgerber's painting "The Birth of Our Nation’s Flag," people came to believe that she had created and sewed the first American flag


Alfred Stieglitz

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

American photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form; he is also known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the United States

 

Qi Baishi

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

Chinese painter known for his whimsical watercolor paintings; in 1953 he was elected president of the China Artists Association

 

E. M. Forster

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

British novelist known for writing about class differences and hypocrisy; he was nominated for, but never won, the Nobel Prize for literature 16 different years; he is know for A Room With A View, Howard's End, and A Passage To India

 

Manuel Roxas

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

5th President of the Philippines under American administration and 1st President, in 1946, of a free and independent Philippines; after effectively overseeing the transition from an American protectorate to an independent nation, he died of a heart attack in just his 2nd year in office

J. Edgar Hoover

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

1st Director of the newly established Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), serving as director from 1935 until his death in 1977; he is credited with building the FBI into a large, modern and effective crime-fighting agency; he introduced such things as centralized fingerprinting and forensic analysis of crime scenes; later in his career, he also became known for his abuse of his massive power and his intimidation tactics against even US presidents; he was also known for his complete lack of sexual proclivity

Chiune Sugihara

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

Japanese mid-level diplomat stationed in Eastern Europe who, during WW II, risked his job and the lives of his family to help thousands of Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could escape Eastern Europe; following WW II, he was officially “downsized” from his diplomatic career and lived his life in obscurity, working a series of menial jobs to support his family; it was only much later in life and right before he died in 1985 that he was recognized for his noble work -- the State of Israel honored him as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions; he is the only Japanese national to have been so honored

Kim Philby

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

British spy who was a double-agent for the Soviet Union, secretly passing them information during the early years of the Cold War; he was famously part of the Cambridge 5, a spy ring that passed information to the Soviets; when he was outed as a double-agent, he defected to Moscow, where he lived out the remainder of his days

J. D. Salinger

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

American author whose first novel The Catcher In The Rye was an instant success and was intensely controversial for its discussion of casual sex and the main character's frequent use of swear words; he struggled with all the unwanted attention that the controversy of his book wrought and became reclusive; The Catcher In The Rye has the dubious distinction of being one of the most censored books in American history

Omar al-Bashir

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

President/Dictator of Sudan who came to power after leading a group of military officers in a coup in 1989, then went on to win three controversial and allegedly corrupted elections; in 2009 he became the first sitting president to be indicted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes and genocide for his country's war with Darfur; he himself was deposed in coup in 2019 and he now faces charges as a war criminal

Christine Lagarde

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

French lawyer and politician who is the 1st woman to become finance minister of a G8 economy and the 1st woman to serve as the head of both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank; she is considered to be the 2nd most powerful woman in the world behind only Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

Verne Troyer

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

American actor, comedian and stunt performer best known for his role of Mini-Me in the "Austin Powers" film series

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Chai Jing

Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

Chinese investigative reporter and environmental activist who self-financed a documentary film exposing China's pollution problems; she released it for free on a Chinese website on March 1, 2015; by March 3rd, it had been viewed 150 million times and was then removed and banned by the Chinese government; she now lives in the USA

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Born to play the King of Spades / 5 of Clubs

What will it look like for you to play your cards right? What will you be remembered for?

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