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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Richard Donner in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Richard Donner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Pisces 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.
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
Richard’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileUranus3.3° to 3.5° orb
Richard’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
Richard’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.7° orb
Richard’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Richard building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresGemini 26°19′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Richard feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosPisces 16°28′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Richard is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Richard is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Richard at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.6°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Richard is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
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 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.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Donner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Richard’s cards
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♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Richard Donner, 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 Q262130, 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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Donner at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- 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 time was Richard Donner 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 was Richard Donner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 24, 1930 birth date.
- What was Richard Donner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 24, 1930 birth date.
- 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.
