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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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
The SSA recorded 957 American boys and 8 girls named Richard in 1904: 24th among boys and 1,459th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1904, 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 Shelley Memorial Award came in 1959, when Richard Eberhart was 55.
Study took Richard Eberhart to St John's College and St. Mark's School.
Richard Eberhart lies at Pine Knoll Cemetery.
Wikipedia files Richard Eberhart under Wheaton College (Massachusetts) faculty, St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni and Poets from New Hampshire.
Pharrell Williams (1973) and Lily James (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St John's College, St. Mark's School and Dartmouth College
- Awards
- Robert Frost Medal (1986), Bollingen Prize (1962) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1966)
- Buried at
- Pine Knoll Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
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. 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 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.
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 Eberhart
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Austin 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 Austin that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Austin at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 6.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Austin sits at 43.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Austin at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 66% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Austin, United States
The death is recorded at Hanover (NH), Grafton County in 2005.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Eberhart: 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
69 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Venus · 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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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Sagittarius 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsextilePluto2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.0° to 5.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 29°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 18°21′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°15′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 27°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Richard’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.3°
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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
Computed from April 5, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q975736 (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.
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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.
- 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 was Richard Eberhart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Eberhart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
