Richard Gadd
Richard Gadd (born May 11, 1989, Wormit, United Kingdom), aged 37, is a Scottish writer, actor and comedian. Gadd's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Miniseries and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Richard Gadd’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Gadd’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, 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 1989, 14,133 American boys and 69 girls were registered Richard — 33rd among boys and 1,906th 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
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against 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
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1989, 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
The schooling ran through Oxford School of Drama and Madras College.
The family line: born to Geoffrey Michael Gadd.
On Wikipedia the categories read Scottish LGBTQ screenwriters, People from Wormit and British bisexual comedians.
Cam Newton shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Oxford School of Drama and Madras College
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Richard is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Richard needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Richard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Richard does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Gadd
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wormit 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 Wormit that night
Computed for 56.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wormit was Merak, in Ursa Major, 89.3° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.
Wormit sits at 56.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −33.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wormit on any night.
The Moon, 43% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Jupiter · Yod onto Jupiter · No Fire 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 Gadd at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Richard Gadd's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 11, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Richard Gadd was born on May 11, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Richard Gadd's birth date, May 11, 1989, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Gadd's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Richard Gadd 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 1° to 13° Leo 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
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.1° orb
Richard’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Richard’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune1.5° orb
Richard’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.7° to 6.4° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.0° to 7.1° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto6.6° to 7.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune7.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°08′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 13°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 12°18′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 19°52′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.4°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.1°
- Eros square Pluto 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.7°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Neptune, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Jupiter · Saturn, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.8°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.9°
Born the same day as Richard
Cam Newton was born on May 11, 1989 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Wormit, at 56.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Richard’s cards
Computed from May 11, 1989. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28136502 (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 Soccer Aid for UNICEF, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Gadd at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Gadd.
Quick answers about Richard Gadd’s chart
- How old is Richard Gadd?
- Richard Gadd is 37 years old, born May 11, 1989 in Wormit, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Gadd?
- Richard Gadd is a Taurus: born May 11, 1989, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Richard Gadd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 11, 1989 birth.
- What is Richard Gadd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Gadd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Richard Gadd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Gadd's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
