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Richard Ellmann

Richard Ellmann (born March 15, 1918, Highland Park, United States; died 1987), was an American writer and literary critic. Ellmann is best remembered for James Joyce. Ellmann's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and National Book Award.

Richard Ellmann’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Richard Ellmann’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

1 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

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What the chart says

Richard, according to the stars

Core essence

Richard feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Richard is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Richard wants to be loved

Richard wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Richard be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

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 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Richard is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Richard leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Richard channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Richard sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Richard

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Richard

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Richard

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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 Ellmann

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

Richard’s birth-night reference starTalithawhite · Ursa MajorTalitha, in Ursa Major. A white star, 78.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Talitha →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 10.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Richard Ellmann at a glance

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Richard Ellmann's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 15, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Richard Ellmann was born on March 15, 1918, which falls in a Earth 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 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Richard Ellmann's birth date, March 15, 1918, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Richard’s chart

Richard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Richard Ellmann, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Pisces · 24°18′☉24°Moon in Taurus · 5°03′☽5°Mercury in Pisces · 26°49′☿26°Venus in Aquarius · 15°51′♀15°Mars in Virgo · 23°43′ · retrograde♂℞23°Jupiter in Gemini · 5°06′♃5°Saturn in Leo · 8°10′ · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Aquarius · 25°25′♅25°Neptune in Leo · 4°34′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Cancer · 3°26′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSunoppositionMars0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Richard’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Richard’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars1.9° to 4.3° orb

    Richard’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Richard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb

    Richard’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.6° orb

    Richard’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.9° orb

    Richard’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.3° to 16.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.8° to 18.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 29°05′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Richard absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 2°59′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Richard caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 23°45′ (moves 0.66° 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.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 17°10′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Richard needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Richard exacting with themselves first.

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 opposition Mars 0.0°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 0.5°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.9°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.3°

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. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Richard is read as tuned to what is not said.

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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 semi-square Saturn 0.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 1.7°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Ellmann, 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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The Gilded Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Richard Ellmann, 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 Q1233576, 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.

The same Richard Ellmann 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Richard Ellmann.

Quick answers about Richard Ellmann’s chart

What zodiac sign was Richard Ellmann?
Richard Ellmann was a Pisces: born March 15, 1918, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
What was Richard Ellmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 15, 1918 birth.
What time was Richard Ellmann 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 Ellmann's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 15, 1918 birth date.
What was Richard Ellmann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 15, 1918 birth date.
Where was Richard Ellmann's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Richard Ellmann's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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