NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Edward G. Givens Jr.'s Birth Card: The 9 of Spades
The Idealistic Mind
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
Edward Galen Givens Jr. (January 5, 1930 – June 6, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for January 5 is the 9 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 9 of Spades coordinate
Edward G. Givens Jr.'s birthday maps to the 9 of Spades (The Idealistic Mind). 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 Edward G. Givens Jr.. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You complete the hard stretch and put the lesson down.
Edward G. Givens Jr. in the public record
Selected by NASA in 1966 as a member of the fifth astronaut group, he died in an automobile accident before being assigned to a prime or backup spaceflight crew. Givens was born on January 5, 1930, in Quanah, Texas, to Edward Galen Givens Sr. (1904–1990) and Mary Helen Givens (née Jarrell; 1909–2002). He had one younger brother, Donald Jarrell Givens (1932–1952), who died in a Consolidated P4Y-2 Privateer crash in Corpus Christi, Texas. As a child, his family called him Young Galen Givens. He took on extra courses when he was in high school, which allowed him to finish a year early. He worked in a grocery store and spent time cleaning cars to earn money for flying lessons and would hitchhike to Childress Municipal Airport to take them. His parents said he "never had an interest in anything but aviation". Givens earned his pilot's license in early 1946, and then performed a solo flight the day after he turned 16 in a Piper Cub.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Edward Givens (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 Edward G. Givens Jr., and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Edward G. Givens Jr.'s fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♠ — Birth Card: The Idealistic Mind
- 6♠ — Karma — Environment: The Responsible Mind
- K♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Compassionate King
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- K♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Systematic Builder
- 6♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Devoted Caregiver
- 5♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Innovator
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Rigid Truth
- 10♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Community Heart
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Wealthy Master
- 8♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Powerful Mind
- A♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Emotional Pioneer
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
Edward Galen Givens Jr. (January 5, 1930 – June 6, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: pilot.
Also on the record
- He graduated from Quanah High School in 1946.
- Givens was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.
- He attended Texas A&M University for a semester and the University of Oklahoma for three semesters.
- He graduated in 1952, as an outstanding student, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Sciences from the United States Naval Academy.
Other astronauts with this card
- Donald K. Slayton — NASA Group 1 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Joe F. Edwards Jr. — NASA Group 15 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Edward G. Givens Jr.'s birth card?
- The 9 of Spades. January 5 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 Edward G. Givens Jr.'s dates come from?
- Birth date 1930-01-05 is the day-precision date on Edward G. Givens Jr.'s NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 5 · 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 (Edward G. Givens Jr.) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q720191) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Edward Givens). Birth date 1930-01-05 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).