NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
N. Jan Davis's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
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
Nancy Jan Davis (née Smotherman; born November 1, 1953) is a former American astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for November 1 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
N. Jan Davis's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 N. Jan Davis. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
N. Jan Davis in the public record
A veteran of three space flights, Davis logged over 673 hours in space. She is now retired from NASA. Nancy Jan Davis graduated from Huntsville High School in 1971. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1975 and another in mechanical engineering from Auburn University in 1977. She received a Master of Science degree in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1985, both in mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. After graduating from Auburn University in 1977, Davis joined Texaco in Bellaire, Texas, working as a petroleum engineer in tertiary oil recovery. She left there in 1979 to work for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as an aerospace engineer. In 1986, she was named as team leader in the Structural Analysis Division, and her team was responsible for the structural analysis and verification of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the HST maintenance mission, and the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jan Davis (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 N. Jan Davis, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in N. Jan Davis's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 10♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealthy Master
- 5♥ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Restless Heart
- Q♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wise Guide
- Q♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Nurturing Leader
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Analytical Creator
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
A veteran of three space flights, Davis logged over 673 hours in space.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: veteran.
Also on the record
- In 1987, she was also assigned to be the lead engineer for the redesign of the solid rocket booster external tank attach ring.
- Davis did her graduate research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, studying the long-term strength of pressure vessels due to the viscoelastic characteristics of filament-wound composites.
- She holds one patent, has authored several technical papers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer.
- Davis became an astronaut in June 1987.
Other astronauts with this card
- Christopher J. Loria — NASA Group 16 · Former · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- G. David Low — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 3 flights
- Gregory J. Harbaugh — NASA Group 12 · Former · 4 flights
- James B. Irwin — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · 1 flight
- James D. Van Hoften — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
- John L. Phillips — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
- Jose M. Hernandez — NASA Group 19 · Former · 1 flight
- Joseph P. Kerwin — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
- Kathryn D. Sullivan — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Kent V. Rominger — NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 flights
- Marsha S. Ivins — NASA Group 10 · Former · 5 flights
FAQ
- What is N. Jan Davis's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. November 1 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 N. Jan Davis's dates come from?
- Birth date 1953-11-01 is the day-precision date on N. Jan Davis's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 12 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (N. Jan Davis) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q29527) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jan Davis). Birth date 1953-11-01 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).