NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Mark N. Brown's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs
The Collaborative Builder
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 Neil Brown (born November 18, 1951) is an American engineer, retired colonel in the United States Air Force and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for November 18 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 2 of Clubs coordinate
Mark N. Brown's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 N. Brown. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.
Mark N. Brown in the public record
Brown spent a total of ten days in space, over two Space Shuttle missions. Brown was born November 18, 1951, in Valparaiso, Indiana, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Brown. His recreational interests include fishing, hiking, jogging, all sports and chess. He married the former Lynne A. Anderson of River Grove, Illinois; they have two daughters. 1969: Graduated from Valparaiso High School, Valparaiso, Indiana 1973: Received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 1980: Received a Master of Science degree in astronautical engineering from the U.S.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mark N. Brown (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 Mark N. Brown, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Mark N. Brown's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♣ — Birth Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Truth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 6♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Responsible Mind
- 10♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Completed Mind
- 4♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Rigid Truth
- 10♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Master Builder
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Master of Thought
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.
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.
Air Force Command Pilot Senior Space Badge Defense Superior Service Medal Air Force Commendation Medals (2) Air Force O
Paired on shared wording: command, space.
Also on the record
- Air Force Institute of Technology of Air University, Dayton, Ohio Following graduation from Purdue in 1973, Brown was commissioned in the U.S.
- Air Force and received his pilot wings at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, in 1974.
- He was then assigned to the 87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at K.I.
- Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan, where he flew both T-33 and F-106 aircraft.
Other astronauts with this card
- Alan B. Shepard Jr. — NASA Group 1 · Deceased · 2 flights
- J. Mike Lounge — NASA Group 9 · Deceased · 3 flights
- Michael E. Lopez-Alegria — NASA Group 14 · Former · 3 flights
- Neil W. Woodward III — NASA Group 17 · Former · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Richard N. Richards — NASA Group 9 · Former · 4 flights
- Robert L. Satcher Jr. — NASA Group 19 · Former · 1 flight
- Steven W. Lindsey — NASA Group 15 · Former · 5 flights
- William M. Shepherd — NASA Group 10 · Former · 4 flights
- William S. McArthur Jr. — NASA Group 3 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is Mark N. Brown's birth card?
- The 2 of Clubs. November 18 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 N. Brown's dates come from?
- Birth date 1951-11-18 is the day-precision date on Mark N. Brown's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 10 · 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 (Mark N. Brown) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1371289) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mark N. Brown). Birth date 1951-11-18 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).