NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
John E. Blaha's Birth Card: The King of Hearts
The Compassionate King
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
John Elmer Blaha (born August 26, 1942, in San Antonio, Texas) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for August 26 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The King of Hearts coordinate
John E. Blaha's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 John E. Blaha. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
John E. Blaha in the public record
He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir. Blaha is married to the former Brenda I. Walters of St. Louis, Missouri. They have three children. Blaha graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a Bachelor of Science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965; and received a Master of Science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. Blaha received his pilot wings at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, in 1967. He was subsequently assigned as an operational pilot flying F-4, F-102, F-106, and A-37 aircraft (completing 361 combat missions in Vietnam).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article John E. Blaha (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the King of Hearts
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 John E. Blaha, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in John E. Blaha's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♥ — Birth Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♥ — 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.
You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.
In addition to flying five space missions, Blaha has served as the chairman, NASA Space Flight Safety Panel; weather manager, Mission Management Team; lead spacecraft communicator; member, NASA Space Shuttle Improvement Panel.
Paired on shared wording: lead, space.
Also on the record
- He attended the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in 1971, and piloted the NF-104 research aircraft to 104,400 feet.
- Following graduation, he served as an F-104 instructor pilot at the test pilot school, teaching low lift-to-drag approach, zoom, performance, stability/control, and spin flight test techniques.
- In 1973, he was assigned as a test pilot working with the Royal Air Force at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, United Kingdom.
- During a three-year tour, he flew stability/control, performance, spin, and weapons delivery flight tests in the SEPECAT Jaguar, Blackburn Buccaneer, BAE Hawk, and BAC Jet Provost aircraft.
Other astronauts with this card
- Andrew S. W. Thomas — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
- Scott E. Parazynski — NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 flights
- Stephen S. Oswald — NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is John E. Blaha's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. August 26 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 John E. Blaha's dates come from?
- Birth date 1942-08-26 is the day-precision date on John E. Blaha's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · Former · 5 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 (John E. Blaha) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q609639) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (John E. Blaha). Birth date 1942-08-26 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).