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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

In 1918, 12,323 American boys and 51 girls were registered Richard — 12th among boys and 1,013th 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4).

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

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

The record

What sets Richard apart

Eva Longoria (1975) and Zhores Alferov (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. 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 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 →

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

The sky over Highland Park that night

Computed for 42.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Highland Park at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 11.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Highland Park sits at 42.4°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 −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 15% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.

How unusual Richard's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde

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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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.

What Pisces means →

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Richard Ellmann was born on March 15, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

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.

What Life Path 1 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 27° to 12° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 23°45′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Richard’s dominant planets

  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

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.

  • 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°

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Richard’s cards

Computed from March 15, 1918. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1233576 (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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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Richard Ellmann's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Richard Ellmann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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