NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Linda M. Godwin's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds
The Wealthy 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
Linda Maxine Godwin (born July 2, 1952) is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for July 2 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The King of Diamonds coordinate
Linda M. Godwin's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy 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 Linda M. Godwin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.
Linda M. Godwin in the public record
Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career, Godwin completed four space flights and logged over 38 days in space. Godwin also served as the assistant to the director for exploration, Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Since retiring from NASA, she accepted the position of professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri. She was the first woman to perform spacewalks outside two different space stations, Mir in March 1996 and the International Space Station in December 2001. Godwin was born July 2, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, but her hometown is Jackson, Missouri. She graduated from Jackson High School in Jackson, Missouri, in 1970, then received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics from Southeast Missouri State University in 1974, and a Master of Science degree and a Doctorate in physics from the University of Missouri in 1976 and 1980.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Linda M. Godwin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs
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 Linda M. Godwin, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Linda M. Godwin's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♦ — Birth Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♥ — 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.
Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly
Linda Maxine Godwin (born July 2, 1952) is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: scientist.
Also on the record
- Godwin is a member of the American Physical Society, the Ninety-Nines, Inc., Association of Space Explorers, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
- Godwin married fellow astronaut Steven Nagel (who had been her commander on her first spaceflight) and remained married until his death from cancer on August 21, 2014.
- NASA Outstanding Performance Rating Sustained Superior Performance Award NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal NASA Exceptional Service Medal NASA Distinguished Service Medal After completing undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics at Southeast Missouri State University, Godwin attended graduate school at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
- During that time she taught undergraduate physics labs and was the recipient of several research assistantships.
Other astronauts with this card
- David C. Leestma — NASA Group 9 · Former · 3 flights
- Donald A. Thomas — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- Robert Shane Kimbrough — NASA Group 19 · Former · 3 flights
- Shannon W. Lucid — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Wendy B. Lawrence — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is Linda M. Godwin's birth card?
- The King of Diamonds. July 2 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 Linda M. Godwin's dates come from?
- Birth date 1952-07-02 is the day-precision date on Linda M. Godwin's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 11 · Former · 4 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 (Linda M. Godwin) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q433337) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Linda M. Godwin). Birth date 1952-07-02 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).