NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Jose M. Hernandez'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
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer and astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for August 7 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Jose M. Hernandez'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 Jose M. Hernandez. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Jose M. Hernandez in the public record
He serves as a Regent of the University of California until 2033. Hernández was on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in August 2009. He also served as chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center. Hernández previously developed equipment for full-field digital mammography at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In October 2011, Hernández, at the urging of President Barack Obama, ran for Congress as a Democrat in California's newly redrawn 10th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won the Democratic nomination but lost the 2012 general election to freshman Representative Jeff Denham. Hernández is the subject of the 2023 biopic A Million Miles Away in which he is portrayed by Michael Peña.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article José M. Hernández (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 Jose M. Hernandez, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Jose M. Hernandez'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)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 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
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 6♦, 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.
Ability to see what needs fixing
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer and astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer.
Also on the record
- Hernández was born in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown.
- His family is originally from La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico.
- In an August 25, 2009 conversation with the President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, Hernández stated that as a child, he lived half the year in La Piedad and half in the United States.
- As a child, Hernández worked alongside his family and other farmworkers throughout the fields of California, harvesting crops and moving from one town to another.
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
- James D. Van Hoften — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
- John L. Phillips — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
- 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 Jose M. Hernandez's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. August 7 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 Jose M. Hernandez's dates come from?
- Birth date 1962-08-07 is the day-precision date on Jose M. Hernandez's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 19 · 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 (Jose M. Hernandez) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q716333) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (José M. Hernández). Birth date 1962-08-07 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).