Richard Ernst
Richard Ernst (born August 14, 1933, Winterthur, Switzerland; died 2021), was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate. Ernst's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Marcel Benoist Prize and Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
Richard Ernst’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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Richard Ernst’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
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Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Richard is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Richard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Richard creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Richard is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Richard fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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Richard Ernst at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Richard Ernst's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Richard Ernst was born on August 14, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Richard Ernst's birth date, August 14, 1933, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Ernst's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Richard Ernst combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Ernst, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.6° to 0.8° orb
Richard’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMarssquarePluto1.0° to 1.6° orb
Richard’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextilePluto1.7° to 2.9° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.5° orb
Richard’s affections and growth act as one.
stableUranussquarePluto3.6° orb
Richard’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.2° orb
Richard’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus5.7° to 6.7° orb
Richard’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.7° to 6.3° orb
Richard’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Richard turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 22°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Richard looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Richard attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°11′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Richard carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Richard that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres opposition Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.5°
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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Richard is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
T-square onto Pluto · Mars, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Ernst, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Richard’s cards
Every card is computed from August 14, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Ernst, 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 Q122272, 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.
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The same Richard Ernst at Wikipedia.
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 Ernst’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Ernst?
- Richard Ernst was a Leo: born August 14, 1933, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was Richard Ernst's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1933 birth.
- What time was Richard Ernst 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 Ernst's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 14, 1933 birth date.
- What was Richard Ernst's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 14, 1933 birth date.
- Where was Richard Ernst's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Ernst's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
