Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards (born February 27, 1850, Boston, United States; died 1943), was an American writer. Richards's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Laura E. Richards’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Laura E. Richards’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Laura in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~804,390
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
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Laura’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Laura, according to the stars
Core essence
Laura feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Laura is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Laura wants to be loved
Laura wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Laura, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Laura creates
How Laura makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Laura creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Laura is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Laura is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Laura scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Laura's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Laura E. Richards's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 27, 1850, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Metal Dog
Metal DogThe first call when it's bad.
Laura E. Richards was born on February 27, 1850, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Laura E. Richards's birth date, February 27, 1850, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Laura’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Laura E. Richards' date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Laura E. Richards combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Laura’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Laura E. Richards, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMarssextileUranus0.3° to 0.6° orb
Laura’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.7° to 1.0° orb
Laura’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.7° to 3.9° orb
Laura’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextilePluto3.0° to 3.3° orb
Laura’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb
Laura’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.6° orb
Laura’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.6° to 5.1° orb
Laura’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 5.0° to 19.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Laura’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 10°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Laura building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 26°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Laura is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ Eros ℞Virgo 3°01′ (moves 0.07° 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. Laura is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°15′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Laura is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Laura is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 sextile Venus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron square Sun 1.6°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.3°
- Chiron square Venus 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 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°).
Laura’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. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Laura is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Laura’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 Pisces · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Laura E. Richards, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Laura’s family here
One relative of Laura E. Richards also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Dog years
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Laura’s cards
Every card is computed from February 27, 1850, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Laura E. 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
Laura’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6498881, 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 Reynolds, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Laura E. 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 Laura E. Richards’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Laura E. Richards?
- Laura E. Richards was a Pisces: born February 27, 1850, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was Laura E. Richards's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 27, 1850 birth.
- What time was Laura E. 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 Laura E. Richards's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 27, 1850 birth date.
- What was Laura E. Richards's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 27, 1850 birth date.
- Where was Laura E. Richards's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Laura E. Richards's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
