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Richard E. Taylor

Richard E. Taylor (born November 2, 1929, Medicine Hat, Canada; died 2018), was a Canadian physicist. Taylor's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Companion of the Order of Canada and Panofsky Prize.

Richard E. Taylor’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Richard E. Taylor’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, 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

In 1929, 29,572 American boys and 200 girls were registered Richard — 6th among boys and 477th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

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

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

7 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

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 1929, 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 Panofsky Prize came in 1989, when Richard E. Taylor was 60.

Study took Richard E. Taylor to University of Alberta and Stanford University.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from Medicine Hat, University of Alberta alumni and Canadian physicists.

Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Alberta and Stanford University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1990), Panofsky Prize (1989) and Wolfgang Paul Lecture (1994)
Citizenship
Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
66

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 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 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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Richard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Richard

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Richard

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Richard

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Richard

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Richard

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Richard E. Taylor

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Medicine Hat on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Richard’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 79.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 35.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Medicine Hat that night

Computed for 50.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Medicine Hat at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 10.5° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.

Medicine Hat sits at 50.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −40.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Medicine Hat on any night.

The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Medicine Hat, Canada

The death is recorded at Stanford, Santa Clara County in 2018.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard E. Taylor: 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

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 unaspected planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Richard E. Taylor's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Richard E. Taylor was born on November 2, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Richard E. Taylor's birth date, November 2, 1929, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Richard’s chart

Richard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.3° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.6° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 6.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 6.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 9°53′☉9°Moon in Scorpio · 24°56′☽24°Mercury in Libra · 25°13′☿25°Venus in Libra · 16°50′♀16°Mars in Scorpio · 18°49′♂18°Jupiter in Gemini · 15°05′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Sagittarius · 27°10′♄27°Uranus in Aries · 8°14′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Virgo · 3°16′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°36′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Richard’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.1° to 2.4° orb

    Richard’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.2° to 2.7° orb

    Richard’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.1° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto4.8° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.2° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.1° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenusoppositionUranusorb from 8.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°06′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 18°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 2°43′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 3°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 18°27′ (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 Mars 0.4°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.6°
  • Ceres trine Venus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 2.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 3.0°

Richard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 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.

  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 2.0°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Richard’s cards

Computed from November 2, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q201470 (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 ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Richard E. Taylor at Wikipedia 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 E. Taylor.

Quick answers about Richard E. Taylor’s chart

What zodiac sign was Richard E. Taylor?
Richard E. Taylor was a Scorpio: born November 2, 1929, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Richard E. Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1929 birth.
What was Richard E. Taylor's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Richard E. Taylor's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Richard E. Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Richard E. Taylor's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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