Richard F. Heck
Richard F. Heck (born August 15, 1931, Springfield, United States; died 2015), was an American chemist. Heck's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Glenn T. Seaborg Medal.
Richard F. Heck’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard F. Heck’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Richard ranked 5th among boys and 541st among girls in 1931, the year of this birth, with 31,822 American boys and 151 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.
22
Expression · building at scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
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
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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 1931, 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
Richard F. Heck took the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010, at 79.
Training came by way of University of Delaware and University of California, Los Angeles.
The grave is at Holy Cross Memorial Park.
Wikipedia's editors put Richard F. Heck under Scientists from Springfield, Massachusetts, Academic staff of De La Salle University and University of Delaware faculty.
Ben Affleck (1972) and Abiy Ahmed (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Delaware and University of California, Los Angeles
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2010) and Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (2011)
- Buried at
- Holy Cross Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Richard needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Richard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 F. Heck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Springfield 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 Springfield that night
Computed for 42.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Springfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 9.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Springfield on any night.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon up and 7% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Springfield, United States
- Lived in
- Quezon City
Wikidata records Quezon City as Richard F. Heck's home, against Springfield as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Manila, Metro Manila in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard F. Heck: 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
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Richard F. Heck's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 15, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Richard F. Heck was born on August 15, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Richard F. Heck's birth date, August 15, 1931, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard F. Heck's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Richard F. Heck combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Virgo 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
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.0° to 7.8° orb
Richard’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 0.3° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.5° orb
Richard’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableUranussquarePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSuntrineUranus2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°33′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 22°15′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 12°22′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 26°58′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.4°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron square Sun 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.3°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.3°
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Richard’s cards
Computed from August 15, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106471 (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 Richard_Fred_Heck_2.jpg: BloodIce derivative work: ukexpat (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard F. Heck 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 F. Heck.
Quick answers about Richard F. Heck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard F. Heck?
- Richard F. Heck was a Leo: born August 15, 1931, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard F. Heck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 15, 1931 birth.
- What was Richard F. Heck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard F. Heck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard F. Heck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard F. Heck's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
