Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947, Brooklyn, United States), aged 79, is an American actor (born 1947). Dreyfuss's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Richard Dreyfuss’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Dreyfuss’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 58,532 American boys and 144 girls named Richard in 1947: 5th among boys and 706th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Academy Award for Best Actor came in 1978, when Richard Dreyfuss was 31.
The schooling ran through Beverly Hills High School.
Richard Dreyfuss was 17 when the work began in 1964.
The family line: married Jeramie Rain and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Richard Dreyfuss under Jewish pacifists, American conscientious objectors and California State University, Northridge, alumni.
Stephan Schmidheiny 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
- Beverly Hills High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1978), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1978) and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1979)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1964
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 68
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard does not do surface. The core of Richard is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Richard is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Richard even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Richard creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Richard is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Richard fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Dreyfuss
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 76.5° up.
Of the 95 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
- Lives in
- Encinitas
Wikidata records Encinitas as Richard Dreyfuss's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Dreyfuss: 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
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Richard Dreyfuss's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Richard Dreyfuss was born on October 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Richard Dreyfuss's birth date, October 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Dreyfuss' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Dreyfuss combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.9° orb
Richard’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.5° to 1.0° orb
Richard’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.1° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.1° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 12°43′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 1°15′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°17′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 4°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 0°21′ (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 sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.1°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
- Eros square Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron square Mars 2.9°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.4°
Born the same day as Richard
Stephan Schmidheiny was born on October 29, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Brooklyn, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Richard
Other actors
- David Letterman1947
- Jean Reno1948
- James Woods1947
- Nathalie Baye1948
- Warren Clarke1947
- Kathy Bates1948
Born in United States
- Stan KroenkeAmerican businessman
- Rick JamesAmerican singer, songwriter and record producer
- Lawrence WrightAmerican author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-)
- Nancy KressAmerican science fiction writer (1948-)
- Bill MarimowAmerican investigative reporter
- Carl WeathersAmerican actor and football player
More charts like Richard’s
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Born in Pig years
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- Joshua KimmichGerman association football player (born 1995)
- Mario PašalićCroatian footballer
Also born on October 29
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1938
- Winona Ryder1971
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah1952
- Ma Huateng1971
- Tracee Ellis Ross1972
- Joe Amabile1986
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Gabriel LaBelleCanadian actor
- Nico WilliamsSpanish footballer
- Count Felix of MonpezatDanish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
Other Scorpio Pig charts
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- Brie BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Nikki BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
Other Gilded Guardians
- Katherine HelmondAmerican actress
- Elizabeth DebickiAustralian actress
- Vaughan JonesNew Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Eugene O'NeillAmerican playwright
Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Richard’s cards
Computed from October 29, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181799 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Dreyfuss at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Dreyfuss.
Quick answers about Richard Dreyfuss’s chart
- How old is Richard Dreyfuss?
- Richard Dreyfuss is 79 years old, born October 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Dreyfuss?
- Richard Dreyfuss is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1947, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Richard Dreyfuss's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1947 birth.
- How tall is Richard Dreyfuss?
- Richard Dreyfuss is 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Richard Dreyfuss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Dreyfuss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Richard Dreyfuss's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Dreyfuss's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
