NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Mark C. Lee'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
Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel, (born August 14, 1952) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. 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
Mark C. Lee'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 Mark C. Lee. 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.
Mark C. Lee in the public record
He retired from the Air Force and NASA on July 1, 2001. Lee was born August 14, 1952, in Viroqua, Wisconsin, and graduated from Viroqua High School in 1970. Lee is an Eagle Scout. He later attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering in 1974. Following pilot training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, and F-4 Phantom II upgrade at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, Lee spent 2+1⁄2 years at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, flying F-4's in the 25th Tactical Fighter Squadron. In 1979, after this assignment, he studied for a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in graphite/epoxy advanced composite materials. After graduation from MIT in 1980, he was assigned to Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, in the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Program Office, as the operational support manager. His responsibilities included resolving mechanical and material deficiencies which affected the mission readiness of the AWACS aircraft.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mark C. Lee (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 Mark C. Lee, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Mark C. Lee'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
Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel, (born August 14, 1952) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: colonel. This line comes from the Mercury position of the Q♣'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- In 1982 he returned to flying, upgrading in the F-16 and serving as executive officer for the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing Deputy Commander for Operations, and as flight commander in the 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, until his selection as an astronaut candidate.
- Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984.
- In June 1985, he completed a one-year training and evaluation program, qualifying him for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.
- His technical responsibilities within the Astronaut Office included extravehicular activity (EVA), the Inertial Upper Stage, Spacelab, and Space Station systems.
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
- Margaret Rhea Seddon — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 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 Mark C. Lee'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 Mark C. Lee's dates come from?
- Birth date 1952-08-14 is the day-precision date on Mark C. Lee's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 10 · 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 (Mark C. Lee) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q746108) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mark C. Lee). Birth date 1952-08-14 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).