NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Richard A. Searfoss's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
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
Richard Alan Searfoss (June 5, 1956 – September 29, 2018) was an American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut and test pilot. The birth-card coordinate for June 5 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Richard A. Searfoss's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 Richard A. Searfoss. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
Richard A. Searfoss in the public record
Searfoss was born on June 5, 1956, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, but had considered Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to be his hometown. Growing up, he became an Eagle Scout. Searfoss graduated from Portsmouth Senior High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1974. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1978, and a Master of Science degree in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology on a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1979. While serving in the United States Air Force, he attended Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, and Air War College. Searfoss graduated in 1980 from Undergraduate Pilot Training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona. From 1981 to 1984, he flew the F-111F operationally at RAF Lakenheath, England, followed by a tour at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, where he was an F-111A instructor pilot and weapons officer until 1987. In 1988 he attended the U.S.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Richard A. Searfoss (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds
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 Richard A. Searfoss, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Richard A. Searfoss's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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 build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it. You build secure, stable financial foundations. You're good with systems, planning, and long-term security. Your mind thinks in terms of legacy and stability.
He also served as the Astronaut Office Vehicle System and Operations Branch Chief, leading a team of several astronauts and support engineers working on Space Shuttle and International Space Station systems development, rendezvous and landing/rollout operations, and advanced projects initiatives.
Paired on shared wording: system, working.
Also on the record
- Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Maryland, as a USAF exchange officer.
- He was a flight instructor at the U.S.
- Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, when selected for the astronaut program.
- He has logged over 6,000 hours flying time in 77 different types of aircraft and over 939 hours in space.
Other astronauts with this card
- Donald E. Williams — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
- F. Curtis Michel — NASA Group 4 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Harrison H. Schmitt — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
- Kenneth D. Cockrell — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
- Norman E. Thagard — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Richard O. Covey — NASA Group 8 · Former · 4 flights
- Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor — NASA Group 20 · Management · 1 flight
- Tamara E. Jernigan — NASA Group 11 · Former · 5 flights
- Timothy L. Kopra — NASA Group 18 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Richard A. Searfoss's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. June 5 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 Richard A. Searfoss's dates come from?
- Birth date 1956-06-05 is the day-precision date on Richard A. Searfoss's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · Deceased · 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 (Richard A. Searfoss) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1371840) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Richard A. Searfoss). Birth date 1956-06-05 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).