Margaret Rhea Seddon's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for November 8 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Margaret Rhea Seddon'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 Margaret Rhea Seddon. 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.

Live Queen of Clubs meaning page

Margaret Rhea Seddon in the public record

After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as a payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical experiments. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Seddon was awarded her doctor of medicine (MD) degree in 1973. During her residency with the University of Tennessee hospitals, she was the only woman in the General Surgery Residency Program. Before, during, and after her career in the astronaut program, she was active in hospitals emergency departments in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. Seddon became an astronaut on August 9, 1979, after selection as a candidate the year prior. At NASA her development work included the Space Shuttle Orbiter and payload software, the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, the Flight Data File, the Space Shuttle medical kit, and checklists for launch and landing. She was a rescue helicopter physician for the early Space Shuttle flights and a support crew member for STS-6.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Rhea Seddon (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 Margaret Rhea Seddon, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

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.

After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as a payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space.

Paired on shared wording: commander, space. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 3♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. She served as a member of NASA's Aerospace Medical Advisory Committee, as a technical assistant to the director of flight crew operations, and as a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center.
2. In 1996 she was detailed by NASA to Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee, where she assisted in the preparation of cardiovascular experiments that flew on the STS-90 Neurolab Spacelab flight in April 1998.
3. She retired from NASA in November 1997 and became Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group.

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
• Jon A. McBride — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. — NASA Group 12 · Former · 2 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 Margaret Rhea Seddon's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. November 8 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 Margaret Rhea Seddon's dates come from?

Birth date 1947-11-08 is the day-precision date on Margaret Rhea Seddon's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 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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