NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Bryan D. O’Connor's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds
The Dynamic Entrepreneur
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
Bryan Daniel O'Connor (born September 6, 1946) is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for September 6 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 5 of Diamonds coordinate
Bryan D. O’Connor's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Bryan D. O’Connor. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.
Bryan D. O’Connor in the public record
He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2008. Born September 6, 1946, in Orange, California, but considers Twentynine Palms, California to be his hometown. Bryan and his wife Susan have two sons. Graduated from Twentynine Palms High School in Twentynine Palms, California in 1964; received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering (minor in aeronautical engineering) from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, and a Master of Science degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida in 1970. He graduated from the Naval Safety School at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1972 and from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland in 1976. Naval Safety School Top Graduate; Naval Test Pilot School Distinguished Graduate Award; Defense Superior Service Medal (2); Distinguished Flying Cross; Navy Meritorious Service Medal; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (2); NASA Exceptional Service Medal (2); NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal; NASA Silver Snoopy Award; AIAA System Effectiveness and Safety Award; AIAA Barry M.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bryan D. O'Connor (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds
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 Bryan D. O’Connor, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Bryan D. O’Connor's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♦ — Birth Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♦ — 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.
You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call. You approach resources as something to master and control. You're ambitious, competitive, and strategic. You know how to play the game and win.
Graduated from Twentynine Palms High School in Twentynine Palms, California in 1964; received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering (minor in aeronautical engineering) from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, and a Master of Science degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida in 1970.
Paired on shared wording: master, systems.
Also on the record
- Goldwater Education Award; Aviation Week & Space Technology Laureate (Space and Missiles).
- He was inducted into the U.S.
- Astronaut Hall of Fame in May 2008.
- O'Connor began active duty with the United States Marine Corps in June 1968 following graduation from the U.S.
Other astronauts with this card
- Carl E. Walz — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- David M. Brown — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Donald R. McMonagle — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
- Fernando Caldeiro — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Jeffrey A. Hoffman — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Thomas D. Jones — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- William G. Gregory — NASA Group 13 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Bryan D. O’Connor's birth card?
- The 5 of Diamonds. September 6 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 Bryan D. O’Connor's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-09-06 is the day-precision date on Bryan D. O’Connor's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · Former · 2 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 (Bryan D. O’Connor) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q995007) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Bryan D. O'Connor). Birth date 1946-09-06 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).