NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Michael L. Coats's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
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
Michael Lloyd Coats (born January 16, 1946) is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights) and US Navy Test Pilot. The birth-card coordinate for January 16 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Michael L. Coats's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Michael L. Coats. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Michael L. Coats in the public record
From December 2005 to December 2012, he served as Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Coats was born January 16, 1946, in Sacramento, California. He was raised in Riverside, California, and graduated from Ramona High School in 1964. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, a Master of Science degree in Administration of Science and Technology from George Washington University in 1977, and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1979. Coats graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968 and was designated a Naval Aviator in September 1969. After training as an A-7E pilot, he was assigned to Attack Squadron 192 (VA-192) from August 1970 to September 1972 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and, during this time, flew 315 combat missions in Southeast Asia.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael Coats (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 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 Michael L. Coats, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Michael L. Coats's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 6♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Nurturing Creator
- 2♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Financial Partner
- 8♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Powerful Mind
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Completed Mind
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 see what needs fixing
Michael Lloyd Coats (born January 16, 1946) is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights) and US Navy Test Pilot.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: navy, pilot.
Also on the record
- He served as a flight instructor with the A-7E Readiness Training Squadron (VA-122) at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, from September 1972 to December 1973, and was then selected to attend the U.S.
- Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
- Following test pilot training in 1974, he was project officer and test pilot for the A-7 and A-4 aircraft at the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate.
- He served as a flight instructor at the U.S.
Other astronauts with this card
- David R. Scott — NASA Group 3 · Former · 3 flights
- Jerry M. Linenger — NASA Group 14 · Former · 2 flights
- L. Blaine Hammond Jr. — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights
- Patricia Hilliard Robertson — NASA Group 17 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Walter M. Schirra Jr. — NASA Group 1 · Deceased · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is Michael L. Coats's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. January 16 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 Michael L. Coats's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-01-16 is the day-precision date on Michael L. Coats'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).
Get the $9 Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a written card report for your own birthday — not an astronaut reading.
Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Michael L. Coats) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q720194) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Michael Coats). Birth date 1946-01-16 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).