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Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941, Lincoln, United States, 19:30; died 2025), was a Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Cheney held office as United States representative and White House Chief of Staff. Cheney's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun and Francis Boyer Award.

Dick Cheney’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Dick Cheney’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

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

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

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outside the current top list

~29,321

Americans share it since 1880

1934

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Dick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

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The record

What sets Dick apart

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882) and Felipe VI of Spain (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Dick, according to the stars

Core essence

Dick is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Dick 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, Dick is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Dick needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Dick wants to be loved

Dick 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 Dick you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Dick creates

How Dick makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Dick creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Dick is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Dick 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 Dick 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. Dick 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 Dick's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Dick sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Dick

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dick

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

PrivateExpressive
Dick

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dick

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

PracticalVisionary
Dick

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dick

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

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Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Dick Cheney'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 Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Dick Cheney was born on January 30, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Dick Cheney's birth date, January 30, 1941, 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 Dick’s chart

Dick’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.7° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.1° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.5° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 10°48′ · house 6☉10°Moon in Pisces · 22°41′ · house 7☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 24°15′ · house 6☿24°Venus in Capricorn · 21°27′ · house 5♀21°Mars in Sagittarius · 17°46′ · house 4♂17°Jupiter in Taurus · 7°17′ · house 9♃7°Saturn in Taurus · 8°19′ · house 9♄8°Uranus in Taurus · 22°09′ · house 9♅22°Neptune in Virgo · 27°25′ · house 1 · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 3°02′ · house 12 · retrograde♇℞3°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 2°55′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 2°55′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 27°58′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 27°58′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonsextileUranusseparating · 0.5° orb

    Dick’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.

  • VenustrineUranusapplying · 0.7° orb

    Dick’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.0° orb

    Dick’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MoonsextileVenusseparating · 1.2° orb

    Dick’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurysquareUranusseparating · 2.1° orb

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

  • SunsquareSaturnseparating · 2.5° orb

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

  • SunsquareJupiterseparating · 3.5° orb

    Dick’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 4.3° orb

    Dick’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • MoonoppositionNeptuneapplying · 4.7° orb

    Dick’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 4.9° orb

    Dick’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 5.3° orb

    Dick’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb

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

  • VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 6.0° orb

    Dick’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SunoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.8° orb

    Dick’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Dick’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 27°33′ · House 11

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Dick is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°44′ · House 4

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Dick is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 6°44′ · House 7

    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. Dick is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 5°03′ · House 8

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Dick feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°01′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Dick carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.0°

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°).

Dick’s dominant planets

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

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Dick 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 Dick’s chart

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

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Venus, Uranus, Neptune, MoonA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn 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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
  • Moon semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Moon semi-square Saturn 0.6°
  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
  • Moon semi-sextile Mercury 1.6°

Dick’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
1VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 6Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Capricorn, house 5emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 12emptymind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 9Marshome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 9Venuscreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Taurus, house 9Sun, Mercurywork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 1Moonpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 4emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Capricorn, house 5Jupiter, Saturn, Uranusbelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Pisces, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Aquarius, house 6Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Dick’s cards

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The Steadfast Scholar

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Dick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q48259, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Karen Ballard, White House., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Dick Cheney’s chart

What zodiac sign was Dick Cheney?
Dick Cheney was an Aquarius: born January 30, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
What was Dick Cheney's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1941 birth.
What time was Dick Cheney born?
19:30 local time in Lincoln, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Dick Cheney's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 19:30 birth time in Lincoln, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Dick Cheney's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 30, 1941 birth date.
What was Dick Cheney's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 27°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 30, 1941 birth time.
Where was Dick Cheney's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Dick Cheney's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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