Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson W. Richards (born October 30, 1895, Orange, United States; died 1973), was an American physician, Nobel Prize recipient. Richards's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and George M. Kober Medal.
Dickinson W. Richards’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Dickinson
Dickinson W. Richards’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Dickinson’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (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
Dickinson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets Dickinson apart
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 1956, when Dickinson W. Richards was 61.
Dickinson W. Richards was taught at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Hotchkiss School.
Dickinson W. Richards lies at East Cemetery.
Dickinson W. Richards was born to Dickinson Richards.
Wikipedia files Dickinson W. Richards under Harvard Medical School people, People from Orange, New Jersey and Hotchkiss School alumni.
Gerhard Domagk shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hotchkiss School and Yale University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1956) and George M. Kober Medal (1970)
- Buried at
- East Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Dickinson, according to the stars
Core essence
Dickinson does not do surface. The core of Dickinson is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Dickinson is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Dickinson wants to be loved
Dickinson wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Dickinson and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Dickinson creates
How Dickinson makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Dickinson creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Dickinson is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Dickinson is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dickinson runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Dickinson's birth date. Working below.
Where Dickinson sits
Six lines
Dickinson’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Dickinson W. Richards
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orange on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Orange that night
Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Orange at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Orange sits at 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Orange, United States
The death is recorded at Lakeville, Salisbury in 1973.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dickinson W. Richards: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Dickinson's chart is
Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Dickinson W. Richards at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Dickinson W. Richards's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Dickinson W. Richards was born on October 30, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Dickinson W. Richards's birth date, October 30, 1895, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Dickinson’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dickinson W. Richards' date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dickinson W. Richards combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Dickinson’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb
Dickinson’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.6° orb
Dickinson’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 3.0° orb
Dickinson’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.0° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.2° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.3° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 3.5° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareNeptuneorb from 6.9° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Dickinson’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 18°20′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°31′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 16°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Eros square Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 3.0°
Dickinson’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Dickinson’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, Saturn, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
Born the same day as Dickinson
Gerhard Domagk was born on October 30, 1895 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.8°N, the sky above Orange stops at −49.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Dickinson’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dickinson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312963 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Dickinson W. Richards’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dickinson W. Richards?
- Dickinson W. Richards was a Scorpio: born October 30, 1895, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Dickinson W. Richards's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1895 birth.
- What was Dickinson W. Richards's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dickinson W. Richards's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dickinson W. Richards's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dickinson W. Richards's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
