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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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
Of the names registered in 1946, Richard came 5th among boys and 746th among girls, carried by 58,870 American boys and 120 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Richard apart
Wisława Szymborska (1923) and Hans Bethe (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’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 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.
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 Richard Axel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.6° above the horizon in Boötes.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.7°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 Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon up and 19% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No retrogrades at all
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.0° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.0° to 7.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 15°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 11°23′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 19°31′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 25°32′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Richard’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Richard’s cards
Computed from July 2, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211940 (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 Royal Society uploader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Axel at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Richard Axel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Axel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
