NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Clifton C. Williams Jr.'s Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts
The Romantic Messenger
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
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr. (September 26, 1932 – October 5, 1967), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space. The birth-card coordinate for September 26 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Jack of Hearts coordinate
Clifton C. Williams Jr.'s birthday maps to the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). 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 Clifton C. Williams Jr.. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.
Clifton C. Williams Jr. in the public record
The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama. The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him. He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two (Charles Bassett and Theodore Freeman) having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third (Roger B. Chaffee) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year. The aircraft crashed in Florida near Tallahassee within an hour of departing Patrick AFB. Before becoming an astronaut, Williams received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University in 1954 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC). He became a Naval Aviator in 1956 and joined the Fleet Marine Force.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Clifton Williams (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 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 Clifton C. Williams Jr., and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Clifton C. Williams Jr.'s fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♠ — 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.
Visionary thinking and universal perspective
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr. (September 26, 1932 – October 5, 1967), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, marine, pilot.
Also on the record
- In 1961, he graduated from the U.S.
- Naval Test Pilot School.
- As a test pilot, he worked for three years in the Carrier Suitability Branch of the Flight Test Division at NAS Patuxent River.
- In 1962, Williams, then a Captain, became the first pilot to land a two-seat jet on the aircraft carrier from the rear cockpit.
Other astronauts with this card
- Leroy Chiao — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- Owen K. Garriott — NASA Group 4 · Deceased · 2 flights
FAQ
- What is Clifton C. Williams Jr.'s birth card?
- The Jack of Hearts. September 26 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 Clifton C. Williams Jr.'s dates come from?
- Birth date 1932-09-26 is the day-precision date on Clifton C. Williams Jr.'s NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 3 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table), 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 (Clifton C. Williams Jr.) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q709646) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Clifton Williams). Birth date 1932-09-26 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).