Jim Lovell's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

James Arthur Lovell Jr. ( LUV-əl; March 25, 1928 – August 7, 2025) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he, along with Frank Borman and William Anders, became one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. Jim Lovell was born March 25, 1928. The birth-card coordinate for March 25 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Jim Lovell's 1968 TIME Person of the Year — The Apollo 8 astronauts (shared).

TIME Person of the Year record

• Jim Lovell — 1968 TIME Person of the Year — The Apollo 8 astronauts · shared named human

Jim Lovell's 1968 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “The Apollo 8 astronauts” (Jim Lovell is one of the named humans listed for that year). Jim Lovell shares at least one TIME Person of the Year year in this pack with another named human. The harvested English Wikipedia title for Jim Lovell matches the list name. Jim Lovell is Wikidata Q111240. Honor years kept for Jim Lovell: 1968. Choice labels kept: 1968 The Apollo 8 astronauts. Jim Lovell's Wikipedia infobox day is 1928-03-25; Wikidata P569 is 1928-03-25 (match). TIME vault (https://time.com/vault/) is context for Jim Lovell's honor and is not a date source. March 25 maps to J♣ for Jim Lovell. Wikidata P570 lists August 7, 2025 (2025-08-07) as a public death date for Jim Lovell. The Wikipedia REST summary used for Jim Lovell is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovell. No childhood, private address, or invented birthday is added for Jim Lovell.

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Jim Lovell was born March 25, 1928 (1928-03-25). Month 3 and day 25 give solar value 24, which is the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1928 is unused, so Jim Lovell's 1928 birth year does not move the card. The Jack of Clubs does not predict a TIME Person of the Year selection and is not a verdict on Jim Lovell. Quoted system copy for the Jack of Clubs, not a biography of Jim Lovell: You bring a new angle and stay long enough for someone to test it. You bring new thinking and inspiration. You're the one who shifts how people think about things. You have the gift of the "aha moment." Harvested gifts listed for the Jack of Clubs: Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs; Creative and unconventional perspective; Natural gift for shifting paradigms; Talent for generating excitement about ideas. Harvested life-direction line for the Jack of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that real change requires staying present. You're learning follow-through, not just catalysis.

Live Jack of Clubs meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

James Arthur Lovell Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he, along with Frank Borman and William Anders, became one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure en route, looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth.

Jim Lovell in the public record

In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he, along with Frank Borman and William Anders, became one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure en route, looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth. A 1952 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Lovell flew McDonnell F2H Banshee night fighters. He was deployed in the Western Pacific aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La. In January 1958, he entered a six-month test pilot training course at the Naval Air Test Center at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, with Class 20 and graduated at the top of the class. He was then assigned to Electronics Test, working with radar, and in 1960 he became the Navy's McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II program manager. In 1961, he became a flight instructor and safety engineering officer at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and completed Aviation Safety School at the University of Southern California. Lovell was not selected by NASA as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts due to a temporarily high bilirubin count.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jim Lovell (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Ace 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 Jim Lovell, and not a forecast of the cover of Time.

Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth

James Arthur Lovell Jr. ( LUV-əl; March 25, 1928 – August 7, 2025) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, pilot.

Also on the record

1. He was accepted in September 1962 as one of the second group of astronauts needed for the Gemini and Apollo programs.
2. Before Apollo, Lovell flew in space on two Gemini missions: Gemini 7 (with Borman) in 1965 and Gemini 12 in 1966.
3. He was the first person to fly into space four times.
4. He was the first person to reach the Moon twice, and the only returnee who never walked on the surface.

Other TIME Person of the Year people with this card

• Angela Merkel — 2015 TIME Person of the Year — Angela Merkel
• Melinda Gates — 2005 TIME Person of the Year — The Good Samaritans (shared)
• Wallis Simpson — 1936 TIME Person of the Year — Wallis Simpson

FAQ

What is Jim Lovell's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. March 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Jim Lovell's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a TIME Person of the Year?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast magazine covers, character, or fate.

Where do Jim Lovell's dates and TIME Person of the Year credits come from?

Birth date 1928-03-25 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Jim Lovell, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia TIME Person of the Year list. Duals are split per named human. Abstractions, machines, and groups-as-concepts are omitted. The honor line is 1968 TIME Person of the Year — The Apollo 8 astronauts (shared). TIME vault is context only and is not used as a date source. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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