Buzz Aldrin's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

Buzz Aldrin ( AWL-drin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. The birth-card coordinate for January 20 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

Buzz Aldrin's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 Buzz Aldrin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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Buzz Aldrin in the public record

He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. He made three spacewalks as pilot of NASA’s 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Following the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and pilot Michael Collins in 2021, Aldrin is the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member, and the oldest living astronaut. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was commissioned into the United States Air Force and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 fighter jets. After earning a Doctor of Science degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. His doctoral thesis, Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, earned him the nickname "Dr.

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

Where the record meets the 5 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 Buzz Aldrin, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Quick thinking and mental flexibility

Buzz Aldrin ( AWL-drin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, pilot. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 7♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. Rendezvous" from fellow astronauts.
2. His first space flight was in 1966 on Gemini 12, during which he spent over five hours on extravehicular activity.
3. Three years later, Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), nineteen minutes after Armstrong first touched the surface, while command module pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit.
4. A Presbyterian elder, Aldrin became the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon, when he privately took communion, which was the first food and liquid to be consumed there.

Other astronauts with this card

• Gregory H. Johnson — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• James A. McDivitt — NASA Group 2 · Deceased · 2 flights
• Jerry L. Ross — NASA Group 9 · Former · 7 flights
• Michael J. Bloomfield — NASA Group 15 · Former · 3 flights
• Theodore C. Freeman — NASA Group 3 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Walter Cunningham — NASA Group 3 · Deceased · 1 flight
• Winston E. Scott — NASA Group 14 · Former · 2 flights

FAQ

What is Buzz Aldrin's birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. January 20 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 Buzz Aldrin's dates come from?

Birth date 1930-01-20 is the day-precision date on Buzz Aldrin's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 3 · 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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