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Richard Gere

Richard Gere (born August 31, 1949, Philadelphia, United States), aged 77, is an American actor. Notable films include Chicago, Pretty Woman and Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Gere's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Donostia Award.

Richard Gere’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Richard Gere’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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

The SSA recorded 50,946 American boys and 115 girls named Richard in 1949: 7th among boys and 819th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Richard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

2

Soul Urge · closeness

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

8 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Lilac · Gold

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 1949, 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 Theatre World Award came in 1980, when Richard Gere was 31.

The schooling ran through Cicero, North Syracuse High School and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Richard Gere was 20 when the work began in 1969.

The family line: born to Doris Anna Tiffany and Homer George Gere, married Alejandra Silva and raised one child.

Hugh David Politzer and Barry Bearak shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Cicero, North Syracuse High School and University of Massachusetts Amherst
Instruments
trumpet
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2002), Donostia Award (2007) and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast (2002)
Nominated for
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
Working from
1969
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
88

What the chart says

Richard, according to the stars

Core essence

Richard notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Richard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Richard is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Richard needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Richard wants to be loved

Richard wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Richard gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Richard creates

How Richard makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Richard creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Richard is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Richard is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Richard

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Richard

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Richard

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Richard

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Richard

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Richard Gere

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Richard’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 88.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 17° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Philadelphia that night

Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Vega, in Lyra, 88.6° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Philadelphia on any night.

The Moon, 64% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.

How unusual Richard's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl

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.

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Richard Gere at a glance

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Richard Gere's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Richard Gere's birth date, August 31, 1949, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Richard’s chart

Richard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 2° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Virgo · 7°54′☉7°Moon in Sagittarius · 18°49′☽18°Mercury in Libra · 3°49′☿3°Venus in Libra · 13°20′♀13°Mars in Cancer · 25°51′♂25°Jupiter in Capricorn · 22°51′ · retrograde♃℞22°Saturn in Virgo · 9°21′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 4°19′♅4°Neptune in Libra · 13°35′♆13°Pluto in Leo · 16°52′♇16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Richard’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Richard’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb

    Richard’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.7° to 16.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.6° to 17.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 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.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 3°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 1°14′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°27′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 6°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.6°
  • Eros opposition Mars 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 2.6°

Richard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Richard’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.5°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 2.0°

Richard’s family here

One relative of Richard Gere also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Richard

2 other people here were born on August 31, 1949, 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 Philadelphia, at 40.0°N, nothing below −50.0° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Richard’s cards

Computed from August 31, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q48410 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Richard Gere 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 Gere.

Quick answers about Richard Gere’s chart

How old is Richard Gere?
Richard Gere is 77 years old, born August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, United States.
What zodiac sign is Richard Gere?
Richard Gere is a Virgo: born August 31, 1949, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Richard Gere's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1949 birth.
What is Richard Gere's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Richard Gere's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Richard Gere's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Richard Gere's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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