NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Jon A. McBride's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
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
Jon Andrew McBride (August 14, 1943 – August 7, 2024) was an American naval officer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NASA. The birth-card coordinate for August 14 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Jon A. McBride's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Jon A. McBride. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Jon A. McBride in the public record
Throughout his career with the United States Navy, McBride served as an aviator, a fighter pilot, a test pilot, and an aeronautical engineer. He had achieved the rank of captain when he retired in 1989. McBride was an astronaut with NASA, a role in which he piloted STS-41-G, and would have been commander of STS-61-E had the mission not been canceled as the next scheduled launch in the wake of the Challenger disaster. Jon McBride was born on August 14, 1943—the youngest of five siblings—in Charleston, West Virginia. When he was still a young child, his family moved to Beckley, West Virginia, which he considered to be his hometown. In 1960, he graduated from Beckley's Woodrow Wilson High School, then attended West Virginia University from 1960–1964 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1971. He did graduate work in Human Resource Management at Pepperdine University.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jon McBride (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 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 Jon A. McBride, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Jon A. McBride's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, Q♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
Deep wisdom and mental integration
Throughout his career with the United States Navy, McBride served as an aviator, a fighter pilot, a test pilot, and an aeronautical engineer.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, navy, pilot. This line comes from the Mercury position of the Q♣'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- At West Virginia University, McBride became a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
- McBride was married to the former Brenda Lou Stewart in 1966.
- They had three children, Richard M. (1962–1992), Melissa L. (1966), and Jon A. (1970).
- After their divorce in 1986, he married the former Sharon Lynn White in 1988, which also ended in divorce in 2019.
Other astronauts with this card
- Dale A. Gardner — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
- David C. Hilmers — NASA Group 9 · Former · 4 flights
- David M. Walker — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 4 flights
- John M. Fabian — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
- Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. — NASA Group 12 · Former · 2 flights
- Margaret Rhea Seddon — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Mark C. Lee — NASA Group 10 · Former · 4 flights
- Rex J. Walheim — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
- Scott J. Horowitz — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
- Susan J. Helms — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
- Thomas D. Akers — NASA Group 12 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is Jon A. McBride's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. August 14 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 Jon A. McBride's dates come from?
- Birth date 1943-08-14 is the day-precision date on Jon A. McBride's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 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 (Jon A. McBride) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q718499) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jon McBride). Birth date 1943-08-14 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).