Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart (born April 5, 1904, Austin, United States; died 2005), was an American poet. Eberhart's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Robert Frost Medal.
Richard Eberhart’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Richard Eberhart’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
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What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Richard is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Richard needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Richard, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Richard creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Richard gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 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.
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Richard Eberhart in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Richard Eberhart's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Richard Eberhart was born on April 5, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Richard Eberhart's birth date, April 5, 1904, 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 Eberhart's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Eberhart combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Eberhart, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Sagittarius 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.
stableMarstrineUranus0.3° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Richard’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquarePluto1.4° to 2.7° orb
Richard’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.6° to 3.5° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.7° to 3.9° orb
Richard’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextilePluto2.9° to 3.8° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 5.0° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° orb
Richard’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb
Richard’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.2° to 5.4° orb
Richard’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 7.3° orb
Richard’s core identity and growth act as one.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 29°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Richard is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Richard is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAries 18°21′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Richard is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°15′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Richard is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 27°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 sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron square Mars 0.3°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Ceres square Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Eros conjunction Sun 2.8°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.9°
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. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Richard is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Aries · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree 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 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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Eberhart, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from April 5, 1904, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Eberhart, 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 Q975736, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Eberhart at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 Eberhart’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Eberhart?
- Richard Eberhart was an Aries: born April 5, 1904, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon.
- What was Richard Eberhart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1904 birth.
- What time was Richard Eberhart 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 Eberhart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 5, 1904 birth date.
- What was Richard Eberhart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 5, 1904 birth date.
- Where was Richard Eberhart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Eberhart's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
