Richard Borcherds
Richard Borcherds (born November 29, 1959, Cape Town, South Africa), aged 66, is a British-American mathematician (born 1959). Borcherds's honours include Fields medal, Whitehead Prize and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Richard Borcherds’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Borcherds’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
The SSA recorded 47,202 American boys and 130 girls named Richard in 1959: 8th among boys and 919th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Richard apart
The Whitehead Prize came in 1992, when Richard Borcherds was 33.
Study took Richard Borcherds to King Edward's School and Trinity College.
Wikipedia files Richard Borcherds under Group theorists, Whitehead Prize winners and People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham.
Rahm Emanuel shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- King Edward's School, Trinity College and University of Cambridge
- Awards
- Fields medal (1998), Whitehead Prize (1992) and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 35
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Richard is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Richard gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Richard creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Richard 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 Richard leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Richard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Borcherds
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cape Town 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 Cape Town that night
Computed for 33.93°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cape Town at 9 p.m. that evening: Ankaa of Phoenix, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Richard Borcherds's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 29, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Richard Borcherds was born on November 29, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Richard Borcherds's birth date, November 29, 1959, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Borcherds' date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Borcherds combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Richard’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.6° to 2.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.5° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°07′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 28°20′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 0.6°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.5°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.8°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 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.
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
Born the same day as Richard
Rahm Emanuel was born on November 29, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Cape Town, at 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Richard’s cards
Computed from November 29, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q334010 (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 George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Borcherds.
Quick answers about Richard Borcherds’s chart
- How old is Richard Borcherds?
- Richard Borcherds is 66 years old, born November 29, 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Borcherds?
- Richard Borcherds is a Sagittarius: born November 29, 1959, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Richard Borcherds's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 29, 1959 birth.
- What is Richard Borcherds's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Borcherds's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Richard Borcherds's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Borcherds's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
