Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944, Jackson, United States), aged 82, is an American novelist and short story writer. Ford is best known for Wildlife, Canada and Rock Springs. Ford's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and PEN/Malamud Award.
Richard Ford’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Ford’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 1944, 45,643 American boys and 97 girls were registered Richard — 5th among boys and 776th 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.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
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
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Richard apart
The Weeknd (1990) and Bebeto (1964) 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 two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Richard is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Richard needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Richard you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Richard creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Richard is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Richard scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Ford
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jackson 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 Jackson that night
Computed for 32.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Jackson at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Jackson sits at 32.3°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 −57.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 53% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Water planets
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 Ford at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Richard Ford's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 16, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Richard Ford was born on February 16, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Richard Ford's birth date, February 16, 1944, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Ford's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Ford combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.2° to 1.7° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.7° to 2.1° orb
Richard’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.3° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter4.9° to 6.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus7.2° to 7.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn7.3° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 13°51′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 24°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 0°29′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°04′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 1.6°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.3°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.9°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
More people like Richard
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- Joe Haldeman1943
- Peter Weir1944
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Born in United States
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More charts like Richard’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Molly RingwaldAmerican actress and writer (born 1968)
- Jerry O'ConnellAmerican actor
- Jerry SpringerAmerican television personality and politician
Born in Monkey years
- Miriam MakebaSouth African singer and civil rights activist
- Anthony BourdainAmerican chef and television personality
- Marilyn MansonAmerican musician
Also born on February 16
- The Weeknd1990
- Bebeto1964
- Cathy Freeman1973
- Ice-T1958
- Carl Icahn1936
- Elizabeth Olsen1989
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Peter D. MitchellBritish biochemist
- Harry MartinsonSwedish writer
- Jules BordetBelgian immunologist and microbiologist
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Princess Louise of BelgiumBelgian princess (born 2004)
- Donna ReedAmerican film and television actress
- Ariadna GilSpanish actress
- Patton OswaltAmerican actor and comedian
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Constance McLaughlin GreenAmerican historian
- Blair KaminAmerican architecture critic
- Stanley FormanAmerican photographer (born 1945)
- Peter Matthew Hillsman TaylorAmerican writer
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Hiroshi AmanoJapanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Jimmy Carterpresident of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Richard’s cards
Computed from February 16, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q547794 (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, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Ford at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Ford.
Quick answers about Richard Ford’s chart
- How old is Richard Ford?
- Richard Ford is 82 years old, born February 16, 1944 in Jackson, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Ford?
- Richard Ford is an Aquarius: born February 16, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Richard Ford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 16, 1944 birth.
- What is Richard Ford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Ford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Richard Ford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Ford's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
