NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Scott E. Parazynski's Birth Card: The King of Hearts
The Compassionate King
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
Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for July 28 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The King of Hearts coordinate
Scott E. Parazynski's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 Scott E. Parazynski. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
Scott E. Parazynski in the public record
A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October 2007 – highlighted by a dramatic, unplanned extra-vehicular activity (EVA) to repair a live solar array. In May 2016, he was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. He retired from NASA in March 2009 to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities in the private sector, and he is currently the CEO of a technology start-up. He is the first person to have both flown in space and summited Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. He describes his life's experiences in his 2017 memoir The Sky Below. Parazynski is of Polish descent, as his great-great-grandparents migrated from Kraków to the US. He considers Palo Alto, California, and Evergreen, Colorado, to be his hometowns. He is married to Meenakshi Wadhwa, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Scott E. Parazynski (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 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 Scott E. Parazynski, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Scott E. Parazynski's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♥ — Birth Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Pioneer
- 2♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Loving Partner
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Mercury: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Venus: The Completed Mind
- 5♣ — PRC Life Spread — Mars: The Dynamic Innovator
- 3♦ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Success Communicator
- A♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Truth Pioneer
- 7♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Reflective Heart
- 7♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Skeptical Investor
- 5♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Restless Mind
- J♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Romantic Messenger
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.
Visionary thinking and universal perspective
Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physician.
Also on the record
- He has two children with his first wife, Gail.
- Scott enjoys mountaineering, rock climbing, flying and scuba diving.
- A commercial, multi-engine, seaplane and instrument-rated pilot, Parazynski has logged over 2500 flight hours in a variety of aircraft.
- As a mountaineer, his summits include Cerro Aconcagua (at 22,841 feet (6,962 m) above sea level, the tallest mountain in the world outside Asia) and all 59 of Colorado's peaks over 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in altitude.
Other astronauts with this card
- Andrew S. W. Thomas — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
- John E. Blaha — NASA Group 9 · Former · 5 flights
- Stephen S. Oswald — NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is Scott E. Parazynski's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. July 28 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 Scott E. Parazynski's dates come from?
- Birth date 1961-07-28 is the day-precision date on Scott E. Parazynski's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 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 (Scott E. Parazynski) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q706739) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Scott E. Parazynski). Birth date 1961-07-28 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).