Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born April 24, 1930, The Bronx, United States; died 2021), was an American film director. Donner's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Richard Donner’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Donner’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
Richard ranked 5th among boys and 534th among girls in 1930, the year of this birth, with 32,187 American boys and 164 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
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
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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
Richard Donner took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1979, at 49.
The classrooms behind this chart: California State University, Northridge and New York University.
The working life starts in 1957, at 27.
Cause of death is recorded as atherosclerosis.
Richard Donner was married Lauren Shuler Donner.
Wikipedia's editors put Richard Donner under Television producers from New York City, Deaths from atherosclerosis and United States Navy personnel of the Korean War.
Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- California State University, Northridge and New York University
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1979)
- Working from
- 1957
- Cause of death
- atherosclerosis
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Richard is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Richard needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Richard is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Richard is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Donner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at The Bronx was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°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 The Bronx at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 14% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
The death is recorded at West Hollywood, Los Angeles County in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Donner: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Uranus · 2 planets at a critical degree
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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Richard Donner's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Richard Donner's birth date, April 24, 1930, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Donner's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Richard Donner combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.6° orb
Richard’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.7° to 0.8° orb
Richard’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.9° orb
Richard’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.7° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextilePlutoorb from 4.7° to 5.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 26°19′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 16°28′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.6°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.7°
More people like Richard
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Born in United States
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Richard’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262130 (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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Donner at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Donner.
Quick answers about Richard Donner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Donner?
- Richard Donner was a Taurus: born April 24, 1930, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Donner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1930 birth.
- What was Richard Donner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Donner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Donner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Donner's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
