NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Ronald M. Sega's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
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
Ronald Michael Sega (born December 4, 1952) is an American former astronaut who is professor of systems engineering and Vice President for Energy and the Environment at the Colorado State University Research Foundation, a non-profit advocacy organization supporting CSU. The birth-card coordinate for December 4 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Ronald M. Sega's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Ronald M. Sega. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Ronald M. Sega in the public record
He is also the Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and Environment at Ohio State University. From August 2005 to August 2007, he served as Under Secretary of the Air Force. He is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Sega was born in Cleveland, Ohio, he is of Slovene origin. He was married to fellow astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar. He is now married to Ann Sega; they have two sons. He has lived in both Northfield, Ohio and Colorado Springs.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ronald M. Sega (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace 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 Ronald M. Sega, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Ronald M. Sega's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Sorrowful Truth
- J♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Successful Messenger
- 6♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Generous Provider
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Master Leader
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.
Natural resource building and accumulation
He is also the Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and Environment at Ohio State University.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: executive.
Also on the record
- Sega graduated from Nordonia High School, Macedonia, Ohio, in 1970 after which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, a Master of Science degree in physics from Ohio State University in 1975, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of Colorado Boulder in 1982.
- Sega completed pilot training in 1976 and served as an Instructor Pilot at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, until 1979.
- From 1979 to 1982 he was on the faculty of the United States Air Force Academy in the physics department where he designed and constructed a laboratory facility to investigate microwave fields using infrared techniques while pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering.
- In 1982 he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs as assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Other astronauts with this card
- Carlos I. Noriega — NASA Group 15 · Former · 2 flights
- Charles E. Brady Jr. — NASA Group 14 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Janice E. Voss — NASA Group 13 · Deceased · 5 flights
- Richard M. Mullane — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Robert F. Overmyer — NASA Group 7 · Deceased · 2 flights
FAQ
- What is Ronald M. Sega's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. December 4 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 Ronald M. Sega's dates come from?
- Birth date 1952-12-04 is the day-precision date on Ronald M. Sega's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · 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 (Ronald M. Sega) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1334023) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ronald M. Sega). Birth date 1952-12-04 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).