NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
James D. Van Hoften's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous 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
James Dougal Adrianus "Ox" van Hoften (born June 11, 1944) is an American civil and hydraulic engineer, retired U.S. The birth-card coordinate for June 11 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
James D. Van Hoften's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous 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 James D. Van Hoften. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
James D. Van Hoften in the public record
Navy officer and aviator, and a former astronaut for NASA. Van Hoften was born June 11, 1944, in Fresno, California. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. He considers Burlingame, California, to be his hometown. He is of Dutch descent. Van Hoften is married to the former Vallarie Davis of Pasadena, with three children. He enjoys skiing, playing handball and racquetball, and jogging. In college, he was a member of the Alpha Sigma chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James van Hoften (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 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 James D. Van Hoften, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in James D. Van Hoften's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — 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.
Ability to see what needs fixing
James Dougal Adrianus "Ox" van Hoften (born June 11, 1944) is an American civil and hydraulic engineer, retired U.S.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer.
Also on the record
- Graduated from Mills High School, Millbrae, California, in 1962; received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966; a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in hydraulic engineering from Colorado State University in 1968 and 1976, respectively.
- From 1969 to 1974, Van Hoften was a pilot in the United States Navy.
- He received flight training at Pensacola, Florida, and completed jet pilot training at Beeville, Texas, in November 1970.
- He was then assigned to the Naval Air Station, Miramar, California, to fly F-4 Phantoms, and subsequently to VF-121 Replacement Air Group.
Other astronauts with this card
- Christopher J. Loria — NASA Group 16 · Former · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- G. David Low — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 3 flights
- Gregory J. Harbaugh — NASA Group 12 · Former · 4 flights
- James B. Irwin — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · 1 flight
- John L. Phillips — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
- Jose M. Hernandez — NASA Group 19 · Former · 1 flight
- Joseph P. Kerwin — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
- Kathryn D. Sullivan — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Kent V. Rominger — NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 flights
- Marsha S. Ivins — NASA Group 10 · Former · 5 flights
- N. Jan Davis — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is James D. Van Hoften's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. June 11 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 James D. Van Hoften's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-06-11 is the day-precision date on James D. Van Hoften's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · 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 (James D. Van Hoften) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q634822) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (James van Hoften). Birth date 1944-06-11 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).