NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Andrew S. W. Thomas's Birth Card: The King of Hearts
The Compassionate King
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a spaceflight.
In the record
Andrew Sydney Withiel Thomas, AO (born 18 December 1951) is an Australian and American aerospace engineer and a former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for December 18 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The King of Hearts coordinate
Andrew S. W. Thomas's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 mission and not a verdict on Andrew S. W. Thomas. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
Andrew S. W. Thomas in the public record
He has dual nationality; he became a U.S. citizen in December 1986, hoping to gain entry to NASA's astronaut program. He is married to fellow NASA astronaut Shannon Walker. Thomas went to St Andrews Primary School, Adelaide at Walkerville in South Australia and subsequently to St Peter's College, Adelaide. After secondary school, he studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a BEng degree with First Class Honours in 1973 and a PhD degree in 1978, both in Mechanical Engineering. He appears in the 1972 edition of the Adelaide University Engineering Society's (AUES) annual publication, Hysteresis. The caption below a photograph of the 21-year-old Thomas reads: A.S.W. (Syd) Thomas: Hides his massive intellect behind a screen of silence and hair. His abilities are varied and include designing wine labels for the A.U.E.S. He is the great-great-grandson of Frederick George Waterhouse, first curator of the South Australian Institute Museum, and naturalist of the John McDouall Stuart Expedition 1861–1862.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Andy Thomas (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the King of Hearts
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 Andrew S. W. Thomas, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Andrew S. W. Thomas's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♥ — Birth Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 2♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Financial Partner
- A♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wealth Pioneer
- 6♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Nurturing Creator
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Wealthy Master
- 8♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Powerful Mind
- A♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional 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.
You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.
In June 1995, Thomas was named as payload commander for STS-77 and flew his first flight in space on Endeavour in May 1996.
Paired on shared wording: commander, space.
Also on the record
- As a child, growing up in Fullarton, Adelaide, Thomas was fascinated by space.
- His father has described how he started building model rockets from cardboard and plastics.
- After completing his studies, Thomas accepted an offer from Lockheed in Atlanta.
- By 1990 he was the organisation's principal aerodynamic scientist.
Other astronauts with this card
- John E. Blaha — NASA Group 9 · Former · 5 flights
- Scott E. Parazynski — NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 flights
- Stephen S. Oswald — NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is Andrew S. W. Thomas's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. December 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a spaceflight?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast missions, character, or fate.
- Where do Andrew S. W. Thomas's dates come from?
- Birth date 1951-12-18 is the day-precision date on Andrew S. W. Thomas's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights), verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only NASA dates and NASA↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Andrew S. W. Thomas) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q507894) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Andy Thomas). Birth date 1951-12-18 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).