How old is Denise Richards?

Denise Richards is 55 years old, born February 17, 1971 in Downers Grove, United States.

What zodiac sign is Denise Richards?

Denise Richards is an Aquarius: born February 17, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.

What is Denise Richards's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1971 birth.

What time was Denise Richards born?

10:25 local time in Downers Grove, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).

What is Denise Richards's rising sign?

Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 10:25 birth time in Downers Grove, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).

How tall is Denise Richards?

Denise Richards is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.

What is Denise Richards's Life Path number?

Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.

What is Denise Richards's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aries at 7°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where is Denise Richards's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 18°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Denise Richards's dominant planet?

Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Denise Richards

Denise Richards (born February 17, 1971, Downers Grove, United States, 10:25), aged 55, is an American actress. Notable films include Love Actually, Two and a Half Men and The World Is Not Enough.

Denise Richards’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

Your match with Denise

Denise Richards’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Scholar

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#1677

US rank in 2025

~374,789

Americans share it since 1882

1961

its peak year

In 1971, 8,219 American girls and 43 boys were registered Denise — 36th among girls and 1,273rd among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Denise’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · starting things

Soul Urge · closeness

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Denise’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Denise apart

Study took Denise Richards to El Camino High School and Downers Grove North High School.

Denise Richards was 18 when the work began in 1989.

Denise Richards was married Charlie Sheen and Aaron Phypers and raised 2 children.

Michael Jordan (1963) and Paris Hilton (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at: El Camino High School and Downers Grove North High School
Working from: 1989
Wikipedia editions: 60

What the chart says

Denise, according to the stars

Core essence

Denise is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Denise is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Denise feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Denise needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Denise wants to be loved

Denise wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Denise you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Denise creates

How Denise makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Denise creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Denise is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Denise is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Denise leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Denise has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Denise's birth date. Working below.

Where Denise sits

Six lines

Denise’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network

Denise

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Denise

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive

Denise

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Denise

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary

Denise

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Denise

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Denise Richards

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

Denise’s birth-sky starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 88.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 22.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

Read from the sky above Downers Grove at 10:25, Denise Richards’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Downers Grove that night

Computed for 41.79°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Downers Grove at the birth hour: Sadr of Cygnus, within 1.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Downers Grove sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 58% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat -31° below the horizon.

What Denise's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Treasurer 天府 in 酉

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart.

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Denise Richards in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Denise Richards's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Denise Richards was born on February 17, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Denise Richards's birth date, February 17, 1971, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Denise’s chart

Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Denise Richards' timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Moon in the 7th house, Mercury in the 10th house and Saturn in the 1st house.
The tightest major aspect in Denise Richards' timed chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
Denise Richards combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.

Denise’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

AscendantTaurus

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

Aspects, tightest first

VenussquareUranusseparating · 0.3° orb
Denise’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
MercurysextileMarsapplying · 0.7° orb
Denise’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 1.3° orb
Denise’s mind grinds against their discipline.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb
MercurytrineUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 2.3° orb
MarssextileUranusseparating · 2.9° orb
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 3.1° orb
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 3.5° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.9° orb
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 4.6° orb
SunsquareJupiterapplying · 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire3 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air3 of 10
Water1 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

⚷ ChironAries 7°30′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°18′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 24°59′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 7°28′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°37′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Black Moon Lilith sextile Moon 0.2°
Eros sextile Ascendant 0.7°
Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.0°
Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.7°
Chiron trine Jupiter 2.8°

Denise’s dominant planets

1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Denise’s chart

T-square onto Mercury · Moon, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
Sun quintile Mars 0.3°
Mercury quintile Neptune 0.3°
Mars quincunx Saturn 0.6°
Sun quincunx Pluto 0.8°
Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.4°
Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°

Denise’s houses

Denise’s houses
House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Taurus	Venus in Capricorn, house 9	Saturn	self, body, how you arrive
2	Gemini	Mercury in Aquarius, house 10	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Cancer	Moon in Scorpio, house 7	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Leo	Sun in Aquarius, house 10	empty	home, family, roots
5	Virgo	Mercury in Aquarius, house 10	Pluto	creativity, romance, play
6	Libra	Venus in Capricorn, house 9	Uranus	work, habits, health
7	Scorpio	Pluto in Virgo, house 5	Moon	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 8	Mars, Jupiter, Neptune	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Capricorn	Saturn in Taurus, house 1	Venus	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Aquarius	Uranus in Libra, house 6	Sun, Mercury	career, reputation, public life
11	Pisces	Neptune in Sagittarius, house 8	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Aries	Mars in Sagittarius, house 8	empty	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Denise’s family here

3 relatives of Denise Richards also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Denise’s cards

Computed from February 17, 1971. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Denise’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206833 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Denise Richards at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Denise Richards.

Quick answers about Denise Richards’s chart

How old is Denise Richards?: Denise Richards is 55 years old, born February 17, 1971 in Downers Grove, United States.
What zodiac sign is Denise Richards?: Denise Richards is an Aquarius: born February 17, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What is Denise Richards's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1971 birth.
What time was Denise Richards born?: 10:25 local time in Downers Grove, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Denise Richards's rising sign?: Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 10:25 birth time in Downers Grove, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Denise Richards?: Denise Richards is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Denise Richards's Life Path number?: Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Denise Richards's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aries at 7°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Denise Richards's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 18°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Denise Richards's dominant planet?: Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Your match with Denise

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What Denise’s name adds up to

Denise’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

What sets Denise apart

Denise, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Denise wants to be loved

How Denise creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

Six lines

Dedicate a star to Denise Richards

The sky over Downers Grove that night

What Denise's birth time unlocks

Denise Richards in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Metal Pig

Life Path 1

What stands out in Denise’s chart

Denise’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Denise’s dominant planets

Configurations in Denise’s chart

Minor aspects

Denise’s houses

Denise’s family here

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