NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Kevin A. Ford's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
The Businessman
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
Kevin Anthony Ford (born July 7, 1960) is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for July 7 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 8 of Diamonds coordinate
Kevin A. Ford's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Kevin A. Ford. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.
Kevin A. Ford in the public record
Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of which are the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. Ford has also logged more than 6,100 flying hours and also holds FAA certificates for airplanes, helicopters, gliders, and balloons. Ford has served in many roles at NASA since his selection in July 2000. The roles include as a Capsule Communicator or CAPCOM. He was also the Director Of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia from January 2004 to January 2005. He was pilot of STS-128 and flight engineer 2 of Soyuz TMA-06M from October 23, 2012, to March 16, 2013. He served as ISS flight engineer for Expedition 33, and commander of Expedition 34.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kevin A. Ford (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen 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 Kevin A. Ford, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Kevin A. Ford's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♦ — Birth Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♥ — 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.
Deep wisdom and understanding
Kevin Anthony Ford (born July 7, 1960) is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: colonel.
Other astronauts with this card
- Eric A. Boe — NASA Group 18 · Active · 2 flights
- Neil A. Armstrong — NASA Group 2 · Deceased · 2 flights
- Sherwood C. Spring — NASA Group 9 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Kevin A. Ford's birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. July 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 Kevin A. Ford's dates come from?
- Birth date 1960-07-07 is the day-precision date on Kevin A. Ford's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 18 · 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 (Kevin A. Ford) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q706849) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Kevin A. Ford). Birth date 1960-07-07 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).