NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Tamara E. Jernigan'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
Tamara Elizabeth Jernigan (born May 7, 1959) is an American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for May 7 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Tamara E. Jernigan'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 Tamara E. Jernigan. 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.
Tamara E. Jernigan in the public record
During her career she completed five Space Shuttle program missions (three on Columbia and one each on Endeavour and Discovery), logging over 1512 hours in space. Jernigan left NASA in 2001, and is Deputy Principal Associate Director in the Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) organization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tamara Elizabeth Jernigan was born on May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Mary and Terry Jernigan. She attended Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe Springs, California, graduating in 1977. Jernigan attended Stanford University, where she played varsity volleyball. She earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1981 and an M.S. in engineering science in 1983. At the University of California, Berkeley, she received an M.S. in astronomy in 1985. In 1989, she was awarded a Ph.D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Tamara E. Jernigan (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Tamara E. Jernigan'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)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for Q♦, 9♦, 3♦, 3♣, K♦, 5♦, 5♥, 3♠, 9♥, 7♣, Q♠, J♣, 7♠, 2♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a spaceflight.
Also on the record
- She wrote her doctoral dissertation on "a plasma diagnostic study of two wind-blown shell nebulae: NGC 7635 and NGC 2359", under the supervision of Reginald Dufour.
- Her research focused on the modeling of "a high-velocity outflows in regions of star formation, gamma-ray bursters, and the radiation produced by interstellar shock waves".
- Jernigan, under the supervision of Reginald Dufour, began working for NASA in June 1981 at the Ames Research Center while earning her degrees at Stanford and Berkeley.
- She worked in the Theoretical Studies Branch as a research scientist until June 1985 when she was among the 13 people selected as astronaut candidates.
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 A. Searfoss — NASA Group 13 · Deceased · 3 flights
- Richard O. Covey — NASA Group 8 · Former · 4 flights
- Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor — NASA Group 20 · Management · 1 flight
- Timothy L. Kopra — NASA Group 18 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Tamara E. Jernigan's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. May 7 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 Tamara E. Jernigan's dates come from?
- Birth date 1959-05-07 is the day-precision date on Tamara E. Jernigan's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 11 · 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 (Tamara E. Jernigan) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q262359) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Tamara E. Jernigan). Birth date 1959-05-07 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).