Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940, Chicago, United States; died 2023), was an American actress. Welch's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Raquel Welch’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Raquel
Raquel Welch’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Raquel in the U.S.?
#1123
US rank in 2025
~50,978
Americans share it since 1900
1970
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1940, Raquel came 760th, carried by 85 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Raquel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Raquel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Raquel apart
Training came by way of San Diego State University.
The working life starts in 1964, at 24.
Cause of death is recorded as cardiac arrest.
Raquel Welch was born to Josephine Sarah Hall and Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo, married Patrick Curtis and André Weinfeld and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Raquel Welch: Latino conservatism in the United States, American people of Bolivian descent and Models from Chicago.
The same date carries Lewis Spratlan. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- San Diego State University
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1964
- Cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 72
What the chart says
Raquel, according to the stars
Core essence
Raquel notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Raquel is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Raquel wants to be loved
Raquel wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Raquel gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Raquel creates
How Raquel makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Raquel creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Raquel is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Raquel 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 Raquel leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Raquel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Raquel's birth date. Working below.
Where Raquel sits
Six lines
Raquel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Raquel Welch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 21% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Raquel Welch: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Raquel's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Raquel Welch's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 5, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Raquel Welch was born on September 5, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Raquel Welch's birth date, September 5, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Raquel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Raquel Welch's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Raquel Welch combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Raquel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.6° orb
Raquel’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussextileUranus0.4° to 1.4° orb
Raquel’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 1.6° orb
Raquel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.7° to 2.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.3° to 2.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.9° to 2.3° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.6° to 3.9° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.5° to 4.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Raquel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°05′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 16°47′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°51′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 1°28′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.1°
- Eros square Neptune 2.9°
Raquel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Raquel’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.2°
Born the same day as Raquel
Lewis Spratlan was born on September 5, 1940 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Raquel
Other actors
- Plácido Domingo1941
- F. Murray Abraham1939
- Klaus Wennemann1940
- John Cleese1939
- Dionne Warwick1940
- Enzo Staiola1939
Born in United States
- William TaubmanAmerican political scientist
- James GammonAmerican actor
- Frances FitzGeraldAmerican journalist and author
- Al PacinoAmerican actor
- Lucy MorganAmerican journalist
- Burt YoungAmerican actor
More charts like Raquel’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Alexander SkarsgårdSwedish actor
- Marc AnthonyAmerican singer
- Don BradmanAustralian cricketer
Born in Dragon years
- Garrett WilsonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jeremy RuckertAmerican football tight end
- Harrison SmithAmerican football player
Also born on September 5
- Freddie Mercury1946
- Bukayo Saka2001
- Leonardo Araújo1969
- George Lazenby1939
- Chris Hipkins1978
- Rose McGowan1973
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Sean AstinAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Wil WheatonAmerican actor and writer
- Cary GrantBritish-American actor
Other Virgo Dragon charts
- Evan RossAmerican actor
- Alexa PenaVegaAmerican actress
- Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian (born 1964)
- Alison Sweeneyactress
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Leslie HowardBritish actor
- Fredric MarchAmerican actor
- Antonin ArtaudFrench-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
- Sergi LópezSpanish actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Krepin DiattaSenegalese association football player
- Marin PongračićCroatian association football player
- Theo BongondaDR Congolese footballer
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Raquel’s cards
Computed from September 5, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Raquel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229545 (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 author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Raquel Welch at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Raquel Welch.
Quick answers about Raquel Welch’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Raquel Welch?
- Raquel Welch was a Virgo: born September 5, 1940, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Raquel Welch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 5, 1940 birth.
- What was Raquel Welch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Raquel Welch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Raquel Welch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Raquel Welch's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
