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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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 1880

1961

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Denise’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Denise sits

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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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Denise Richards in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Denise Richards's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Denise’s chart

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.3° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.9° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbSun in Aquarius · 28°22′ · house 10☉28°Moon in Scorpio · 18°51′ · house 7☽18°Mercury in Aquarius · 15°19′ · house 10☿15°Venus in Capricorn · 13°27′ · house 9♀13°Mars in Sagittarius · 16°02′ · house 8♂16°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 4°44′ · house 8♃4°Saturn in Taurus · 16°36′ · house 1♄16°Uranus in Libra · 13°09′ · house 6 · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Sagittarius · 3°00′ · house 8♆2°Pluto in Virgo · 29°08′ · house 5 · retrograde♇℞29°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 25°41′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 25°41′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 2°56′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 2°56′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

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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

    Denise’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercurytrineUranusseparating · 2.2° orb

    Denise’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 2.3° orb

    Denise’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MarssextileUranusseparating · 2.9° orb

    Denise’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenustrineSaturnapplying · 3.1° orb

    Denise’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 3.5° orb

    Denise’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.9° orb

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

  • SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 4.6° orb

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

  • SunsquareJupiterapplying · 6.4° orb

    Denise’s core identity grinds against their growth.

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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 7°30′ · House 12

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

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 5°18′ · House 1

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Denise is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 24°59′ · House 11

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Denise is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 7°28′ · House 4

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Denise at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°37′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Denise exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • 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°

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°).

Denise’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Denise is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Denise’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-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 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.

  • 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

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Capricorn, house 9Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 7emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Aquarius, house 10emptyhome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 10Plutocreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Capricorn, house 9Uranuswork, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 5Moonpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Sagittarius, house 8Mars, Jupiter, Neptuneshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 1Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Libra, house 6Sun, Mercurycareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 8emptyfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 8emptythe 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

Every card is computed from February 17, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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The Tidal Scholar

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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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 data comes from

Denise’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206833, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 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. 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.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig.
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 from the February 17, 1971 birth date.
What is Denise Richards's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 7°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 17, 1971 birth time.
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.

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