Richard Axel
Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946, Brooklyn, United States), aged 80, is an American molecular biologist. Axel's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Alan T. Waterman Award and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Richard Axel’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dog, with 
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Richard Axel’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Richard in the U.S.?
#234
US rank in 2025
~2,587,082
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard feels the room before entering it. The core of Richard is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Richard, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Richard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Richard creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Richard is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Richard 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 Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Richard sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Richard Axel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 2, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Richard Axel was born on July 2, 1946, which falls in a Fire 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 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Richard Axel's birth date, July 2, 1946, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Axel's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Richard Axel combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Axel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Richard’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.3° to 1.4° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.0° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileUranus1.3° to 2.5° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.8° to 4.7° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.0° to 5.1° orb
Richard’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
Richard’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.0° to 7.1° orb
Richard’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.4° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 2.5° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.3° to 16.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 15°16′ (moves 0.04° 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. Richard is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 11°23′ (moves 0.15° 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.
♡ ErosTaurus 19°31′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Richard wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaAries 25°32′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Richard feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Richard leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 square Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.8°
- Eros square Venus 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
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. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Richard is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Axel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Richard’s cards
Every card is computed from July 2, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Axel, 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 Q211940, 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 Royal Society uploader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Axel 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Richard Axel.
Quick answers about Richard Axel’s chart
- How old is Richard Axel?
- Richard Axel is 80 years old, born July 2, 1946 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Axel?
- Richard Axel is a Cancer: born July 2, 1946, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
- What is Richard Axel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 2, 1946 birth.
- What time was Richard Axel 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 is Richard Axel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the July 2, 1946 birth date.
- What is Richard Axel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 2, 1946 birth date.
- Where is Richard Axel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Axel's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
