NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Terrence W. Wilcutt's Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts
The Emotional Foundation Builder
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
Terrence Wade Wilcutt (born October 31, 1949) is a United States Marine Corps officer and a former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for October 31 is the 4 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 4 of Hearts coordinate
Terrence W. Wilcutt's birthday maps to the 4 of Hearts (The Emotional Foundation Builder). 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 Terrence W. Wilcutt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a home people can count on, and you leave enough air for feeling to move.
Terrence W. Wilcutt in the public record
He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. Wilcutt was NASA's Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance, until his retirement from NASA in December 2020. Born October 31, 1949, in Russellville, Kentucky, but raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Wilcutt graduated from Southern High School in 1967; and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1974 from Western Kentucky University where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He then taught high school math for two years before entering the United States Marine Corps. He was commissioned in 1976 and earned his aviator wings in 1978. Following initial F-4 Phantom training with squadron VMFAT-101, he reported to VMFA-235 at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. While assigned to VMFA-235, Wilcutt attended the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School ("TOPGUN"), and made two overseas deployments to Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Terrence W. Wilcutt (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 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 Terrence W. Wilcutt, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Terrence W. Wilcutt's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♥ — Birth Card: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Environment: The Completed Mind
- 4♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Rigid Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 8♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Powerhouse
- 8♦ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Businessman
- 7♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Reflective Heart
- 7♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Questioning Mind
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Nurturing 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.
Deep wisdom and mental integration
Terrence Wade Wilcutt (born October 31, 1949) is a United States Marine Corps officer and a former NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: marine.
Also on the record
- In 1983 he was selected for F/A-18 conversion training, and served as an F/A-18 Fighter Weapons and Air Combat Maneuvering Instructor with VFA-125, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California.
- In 1986, Wilcutt was selected to attend the U.S.
- Naval Test Pilot School.
- Following graduation, he was assigned as a test pilot/project officer for Strike Aircraft Test Directorate (SATD) at the Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.
Other astronauts with this card
- No other astronaut in this set shares the 4 of Hearts.
FAQ
- What is Terrence W. Wilcutt's birth card?
- The 4 of Hearts. October 31 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 Terrence W. Wilcutt's dates come from?
- Birth date 1949-10-31 is the day-precision date on Terrence W. Wilcutt's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 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 (Terrence W. Wilcutt) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q938428) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Terrence W. Wilcutt). Birth date 1949-10-31 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).