NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
David M. Walker's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
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
David Mathieson Walker (May 20, 1944 – April 23, 2001), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, and a former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for May 20 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
David M. Walker's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 David M. Walker. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
David M. Walker in the public record
He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s. Walker was born May 20, 1944, in Columbus, Georgia. In his youth, he was a Boy Scout with Troop 8 in Eustis, Florida, and earned its highest rank of Eagle Scout. He died on April 23, 2001, from cancer; he was 56 years old and was being treated at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. His wife, the former Paige Lucas, and two adult sons from a previous marriage survived him. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on May 24, 2001. 1962: Graduated from Eustis High School, Eustis, Florida.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article David M. Walker (astronaut) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 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 David M. Walker, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in David M. Walker's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Innovator
- 10♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Completed Mind
- 4♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Systematic Builder
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Heart
- 9♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Loving Partner
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.
Deep wisdom and mental integration
David Mathieson Walker (May 20, 1944 – April 23, 2001), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, and a former NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: pilot.
Also on the record
- 1966: Received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy.
- Walker graduated from the U.S.
- Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1966, was commissioned as an Ensign, and subsequently received flight training from the Naval Air Training Command at bases in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas.
- He was designated a Naval Aviator in December 1967 and proceeded to Naval Air Station Miramar, California, for assignment to fly the F-4 Phantom II.
Other astronauts with this card
- Dale A. Gardner — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
- David C. Hilmers — NASA Group 9 · Former · 4 flights
- John M. Fabian — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
- Jon A. McBride — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. — NASA Group 12 · Former · 2 flights
- Margaret Rhea Seddon — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Mark C. Lee — NASA Group 10 · Former · 4 flights
- Rex J. Walheim — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
- Scott J. Horowitz — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
- Susan J. Helms — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
- Thomas D. Akers — NASA Group 12 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is David M. Walker's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. May 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 David M. Walker's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-05-20 is the day-precision date on David M. Walker's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 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 (David M. Walker) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q720351) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (David M. Walker (astronaut)). Birth date 1944-05-20 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).