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Adam Riess

Adam Riess (born December 16, 1969, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 56, is an American astrophysicist. Riess's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and Albert Einstein Medal.

Adam Riess’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Adam Riess’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Adam in the U.S.?

#101

US rank in 2025

~582,453

Americans share it since 1880

1984

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Adam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Adam, according to the stars

Core essence

Adam is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Adam is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Adam wants to be loved

Adam wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Adam and watch them fall for you again.

How Adam creates

How Adam makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Adam creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Adam is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Adam is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Adam slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Adam's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Adam sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Adam

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Adam

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Adam

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Adam

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Adam

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Adam

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Adam Riess

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Adam’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 83.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 14.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Adam Riess's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Adam Riess was born on December 16, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Adam Riess's birth date, December 16, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Adam’s chart

Adam’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Adam Riess, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.8° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.4° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.4° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.4° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 24°35′☉24°Moon in Aries · 2°51′☽2°Mercury in Capricorn · 10°51′☿10°Venus in Sagittarius · 15°13′♀15°Mars in Pisces · 0°50′♂0°Jupiter in Scorpio · 0°00′♃0°Saturn in Taurus · 2°21′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Libra · 8°26′♅8°Neptune in Scorpio · 29°23′♆29°Pluto in Virgo · 27°20′♇27°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Adam’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.1° to 1.9° orb

    Adam’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.1° to 1.8° orb

    Adam’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus1.7° to 3.1° orb

    Adam’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb

    Adam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquarePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb

    Adam’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.3° to 2.4° orb

    Adam’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 2.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Adam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 2°23′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Adam may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 15°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Adam is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 4°59′ (moves 0.82° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Adam is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 3°23′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Adam needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Adam is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Mars 2.6°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 3.0°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Adam’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    3 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Adam is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Adam’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Adam Riess, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Adam

Lei Jun was born on December 16, 1969 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Adam’s cards

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Strength

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The Evergreen Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Adam Riess, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Adam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106454, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Adam Riess at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Adam Riess.

Quick answers about Adam Riess’s chart

How old is Adam Riess?
Adam Riess is 56 years old, born December 16, 1969 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Adam Riess?
Adam Riess is a Sagittarius: born December 16, 1969, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster.
What is Adam Riess's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 1969 birth.
What time was Adam Riess born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Adam Riess's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 16, 1969 birth date.
What is Adam Riess's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 16, 1969 birth date.
Where is Adam Riess's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Adam Riess's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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