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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Goat, with 
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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.
Dickinson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Dickinson W. Richards, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° 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.
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.
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.
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
Dickinson’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
Dickinson’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.3° orb
Dickinson’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.2° to 6.5° orb
Dickinson’s core identity and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 18°20′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Dickinson is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°31′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Dickinson caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosVirgo 16°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Dickinson is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Dickinson is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Dickinson is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Dickinson’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Dickinson is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Dickinson’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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dickinson W. Richards, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Dickinson
Gerhard Domagk was born on October 30, 1895 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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Dickinson’s cards
Every card is computed from October 30, 1895, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Dickinson W. Richards, 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
Dickinson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312963, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dickinson W. Richards at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat.
- 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 time was Dickinson W. Richards 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 was Dickinson W. Richards's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 30, 1895 birth date.
- What was Dickinson W. Richards's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 30, 1895 birth date.
- 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.
