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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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
Richard ranked 5th among boys and 570th among girls in 1933, the year of this birth, with 31,331 American boys and 126 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
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 record
What sets Richard apart
Mila Kunis (1983) and Halle Berry (1966) 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 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. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Ernst
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Winterthur 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 Winterthur that night
Computed for 47.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Winterthur at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Winterthur sits at 47.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −42.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Winterthur on any night.
The Moon, 34% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Pluto
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.7° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°11′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Richard’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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- Robert Curl1933
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Richard’s cards
Computed from August 14, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q122272 (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.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Ernst at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Ernst.
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.
- 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 was Richard Ernst's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Ernst's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
