Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough (born August 29, 1923, Cambridge, United Kingdom; died 2014), was a British actor. Attenborough is best remembered for Gandhi, Shadowlands and A Bridge Too Far. Attenborough's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Richard Attenborough’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Richard Attenborough’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard 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 Richard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Richard needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard 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 Richard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Richard builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Richard 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Richard fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Richard Attenborough's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Richard Attenborough was born on August 29, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Richard Attenborough's birth date, August 29, 1923, 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 Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Attenborough's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Richard Attenborough combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Attenborough, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° 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.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
Richard’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.9° to 3.1° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.4° orb
Richard’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.8° orb
Richard’s affections and drive act as one.
stableUranustrinePluto4.0° orb
Richard’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
Richard’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
Richard’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.5° to 6.9° orb
Richard’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 2.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.2° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Richard’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Richard may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 1°48′ (moves 0.13° 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. Richard is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 12°01′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Richard is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 9°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Richard needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Richard is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.9°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.2°
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°).
Richard’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. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Richard is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Richard’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.
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Attenborough, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Richard’s family here
One relative of Richard Attenborough also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Richard’s cards
Every card is computed from August 29, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Attenborough, 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
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51506, 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 gdcgraphics at https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdcgraphics/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Attenborough at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Richard Attenborough’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Attenborough?
- Richard Attenborough was a Virgo: born August 29, 1923, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Richard Attenborough's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 29, 1923 birth.
- What time was Richard Attenborough 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.
- How tall was Richard Attenborough?
- Richard Attenborough was 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Richard Attenborough's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 29, 1923 birth date.
- What was Richard Attenborough's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 29, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Richard Attenborough's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Attenborough's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
