NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Sherwood C. Spring's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
The Businessman
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
Sherwood Clark "Woody" Spring (born September 3, 1944) is a retired United States Army colonel and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for September 3 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 8 of Diamonds coordinate
Sherwood C. Spring's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Sherwood C. Spring. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.
Sherwood C. Spring in the public record
Spring is married with two children. He is the father of United States Olympian Justin Spring. Sherwood Spring has logged 165 hours in space, 12 of which were spent conducting spacewalks. Spring has also accumulated 3,500 hours in 25 different military and civilian aircraft; over 1,500 of those hours were spent in jet aircraft. Spring was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. Spring met his future wife, Debbie Cooper (an elementary school physical education teacher), while they were both students at the University of Arizona. Spring's son, Justin, was a member of the 2008 US Olympic Men's Gymnastics team that earned bronze in Beijing, was the men's gymnastics head coach at the University of Illinois for 12 seasons and currently an assistant coach at the University of Alabama. Graduated from Ponaganset High School (North Scituate, Rhode Island) in 1963; received a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1967 and a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1974.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Sherwood C. Spring (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen 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 Sherwood C. Spring, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Sherwood C. Spring's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♦ — Birth Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
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.
Deep wisdom and understanding
Sherwood Clark "Woody" Spring (born September 3, 1944) is a retired United States Army colonel and former NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: army, colonel.
Also on the record
- Graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School in 1976 and the Defense Systems Management College in 1989.
- Member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Association of the United States Army, Association of Space Explorers (ASE), and a lifetime member of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy.
- Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, Meritorious Service Medal, 3 Army Commendation Medals, 9 Air Medals, a Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medals, and NASA Space Flight Medal.
- Recipient in 1986 of two honorary doctorate degrees: a Doctor of Science, and one Doctor of Humane Letters.
Other astronauts with this card
- Eric A. Boe — NASA Group 18 · Active · 2 flights
- Kevin A. Ford — NASA Group 18 · Former · 2 flights
- Neil A. Armstrong — NASA Group 2 · Deceased · 2 flights
FAQ
- What is Sherwood C. Spring's birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. September 3 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 Sherwood C. Spring's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-09-03 is the day-precision date on Sherwood C. Spring's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · Former · 1 flight), 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 (Sherwood C. Spring) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q985049) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Sherwood C. Spring). Birth date 1944-09-03 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).