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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Laura
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.?
#379
US rank in 2025
~804,390
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 30 years after this birth. In that first year Laura ranked 17th, with 1,012 American girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Laura’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Laura’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Laura apart
John Steinbeck (1902) and Elizabeth Taylor (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Laura sits
Six lines
Laura’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 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.
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 Laura E. Richards
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Boston at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.3° above the horizon in Gemini.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
How unusual Laura's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Pisces · 2 unaspected planets
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.
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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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.6° to 5.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 10°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 26°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Virgo 3°01′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°15′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Laura’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Laura’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Laura’s family here
One relative of Laura E. Richards also has a chart on AsterNym.
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More charts like Laura’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Diogo DalotPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Marcel SabitzerAustrian footballer
- Rúben NevesPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
Born in Dog years
- David BenioffAmerican writer and producer (born 1970)
- Janet KaganAmerican science fiction author
- Judith MerrilAmerican science fiction writer and editor
Also born on February 27
- John Steinbeck1902
- Elizabeth Taylor1932
- James Wan1977
- Kenzō Takada1939
- Sara Blakely1971
- JWoww1985
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Jock LandaleAustralian basketball player (born 1995)
- Julius RandleAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Moussa DiabatéFrench basketball player (born 2002)
Other Pisces Dog charts
- Grigory MargulisRussian mathematician
- Edward Calvin KendallAmerican chemist
- Archer John Porter MartinBritish chemist
- Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general
Other Steadfast Seekers
- A. J. DillonAmerican football player
- Kevin DotsonAmerican football offensive guard
- Jarrett AllenAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Dyson DanielsAustralian basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Delmar GlazeAmerican football player
- Caleb RogersAmerican football player
- Darren WallerAmerican football player
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Laura’s cards
Computed from February 27, 1850. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Laura’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6498881 (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 Reynolds, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Laura E. Richards at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Laura E. Richards.
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.
- 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 was Laura E. Richards's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Laura E. Richards's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
