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Joe F. Edwards 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
Joe Frank Edwards Jr. (born February 3, 1958), (Cmdr, USN, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, former naval officer, aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for February 3 is the 9 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 9 of Spades coordinate
Joe F. Edwards 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 Joe F. Edwards Jr.. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You complete the hard stretch and put the lesson down.
Joe F. Edwards Jr. in the public record
Edwards was born February 3, 1958, in Richmond, Virginia, but considers both Lineville, Alabama, and Roanoke Alabama, to be his hometowns. He graduated from Lineville High School in 1976 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1980. In 1994, he received a Master of Science degree in Aviation Systems from University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Edwards was designated a Naval Aviator in February 1982. He was assigned to Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143) in 1983, after completion of F-14 Tomcat training, and flew fighter escort and reconnaissance combat missions over Lebanon in 1983. He graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) in 1984 and from U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1986. He subsequently worked as project flight test officer and pilot for F-14A (PLUS) and F-14D Full Scale Development.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Joe F. Edwards Jr. (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 Joe F. Edwards Jr., and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Joe F. Edwards 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
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- J♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 2♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Financial Partner
- A♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wealth Pioneer
- 6♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Nurturing Creator
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Rigid Truth
- 10♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Community Heart
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Wealthy Master
- 8♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Powerful Mind
- A♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: 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
Joe Frank Edwards Jr. (born February 3, 1958), (Cmdr, USN, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, former naval officer, aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, pilot.
Also on the record
- He flew the first Navy flight of the F-14D and a high angle of attack/departure from controlled flight test program for the F-14 airframe/F110 engine integration.
- He served as Operations and Maintenance Officer in Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) from 1989 to 1992.
- He worked as Operations Officer in the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. from 1992 to 1994.
- He has flown 4,000 hours in over 25 different aircraft and logged over 650 carrier-arrested landings.
Other astronauts with this card
- Donald K. Slayton — NASA Group 1 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Edward G. Givens Jr. — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
FAQ
- What is Joe F. Edwards Jr.'s birth card?
- The 9 of Spades. February 3 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 Joe F. Edwards Jr.'s dates come from?
- Birth date 1958-02-03 is the day-precision date on Joe F. Edwards Jr.'s NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 15 · Former · 1 flight), 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 (Joe F. Edwards Jr.) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q935510) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Joe F. Edwards Jr.). Birth date 1958-02-03 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).