NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Charles D. Gemar's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds
The Universal Provider
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
Charles Donald "Sam" Gemar (born August 4, 1955) is an American former astronaut with NASA and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. The birth-card coordinate for August 4 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Charles D. Gemar's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Charles D. Gemar. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.
Charles D. Gemar in the public record
Gemar has flown on three Space Shuttle missions (STS-38, STS-48 and STS-62). Gemar has completed 385 orbits of the Earth and over 581 hours in space. He has also served in different positions in NASA, including as a CAPCOM for Shuttle missions. Gemar was the first astronaut to be born in the state of South Dakota. Born August 4, 1955, in Yankton, South Dakota, Gemar enlisted in the U.S. Army in January 1973 and reported for duty on June 11, 1973, following graduation from Scotland Public High School, Scotland, South Dakota. In November 1973, he was assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and later a Department of the Army appointment to join the United States Military Academy Class of 1979.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Charles D. Gemar (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 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 Charles D. Gemar, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Charles D. Gemar's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♦ — Birth Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 9♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
Penetrating questions and inquiry
Charles Donald "Sam" Gemar (born August 4, 1955) is an American former astronaut with NASA and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: army, colonel. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 9♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, he attended the Infantry Officers Basic Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, the Initial Entry Rotary Wing Aviation Course and the Fixed Wing Multi-Engine Aviators Course, both at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
- In October 1980, he transferred to the 24th Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia, where he remained until January 1, 1985.
- While at Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield, he served as an assistant flight operations officer and flight platoon leader for the 24th Combat Aviation Battalion, commander of Wright Army Airfield, and chief of Operations Branch, for Hunter Army Airfield.
- Other military schools completed include the Army Parachutist Course, Ranger School, and the Aviation Officers Advanced Course.
Other astronauts with this card
- Andrew M . Allen — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
- Bruce McCandless II — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · 2 flights
- Lisa M. Nowak — NASA Group 16 · Former · 1 flight
- Michael J. McCulley — NASA Group 10 · Former · 1 flight
- Stanley G. Love — NASA Group 17 · Active · 1 flight
- William B. Lenoir — NASA Group 6 · Deceased · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Charles D. Gemar's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. August 4 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 Charles D. Gemar's dates come from?
- Birth date 1955-08-04 is the day-precision date on Charles D. Gemar's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 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 (Charles D. Gemar) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1064149) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Charles D. Gemar). Birth date 1955-08-04 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).