NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Guy S. Gardner's Birth Card: The 8 of Spades
The Powerful 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
Guy Spence Gardner (born January 6, 1948) is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for January 6 is the 8 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 8 of Spades coordinate
Guy S. Gardner's birthday maps to the 8 of Spades (The Powerful 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 Guy S. Gardner. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.
Guy S. Gardner in the public record
He holds the rank of colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35. Gardner was also the 12th president of the Williamson College of the Trades. Gardner was born on January 6, 1948, in Altavista, Virginia, and grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. He graduated from George Washington High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1965; received a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in Astronautics, Mathematics, and Engineering Sciences from the United States Air Force Academy in 1969 and a Master of Science degree in Astronautics from Purdue University in 1970. Gardner completed U.S. Air Force pilot training at Craig Air Force Base, Alabama, and F-4 Phantom II upgrade training at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida in 1971.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Guy Gardner (astronaut) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 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 Guy S. Gardner, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Guy S. Gardner's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♠ — Birth Card: The Powerful Mind
- 6♣ — Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Creator
- K♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Master Leader
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- A♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- A♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Communicator
- K♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wealthy King
- 5♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Wise Guide
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Messenger
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Collaborative Builder
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.
Strategic and powerful thinking
He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: pilot.
Also on the record
- In 1972, he flew 177 combat missions in Southeast Asia while stationed in Udon Thani, Thailand.
- In 1973–74, he was an F-4 instructor and operational pilot at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
- He attended the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in 1975, and served as a test pilot at Edwards in 1976.
- In 1977–78, he was an instructor test pilot at the USAF Test Pilot School.
Other astronauts with this card
- C. Michael Foale — NASA Group 12 · Former · 6 flights
- Duane E. Graveline — NASA Group 4 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
FAQ
- What is Guy S. Gardner's birth card?
- The 8 of Spades. January 6 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 Guy S. Gardner's dates come from?
- Birth date 1948-01-06 is the day-precision date on Guy S. Gardner's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Guy S. Gardner) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1376909) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Guy Gardner (astronaut)). Birth date 1948-01-06 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).