Richard Harris
Richard Harris (born October 1, 1930, Limerick, Ireland; died 2002), was an Irish actor, singer, film director and writer. Harris is best remembered for The Guns of Navarone, Camelot and A Man Called Horse. Harris's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
Richard Harris’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Harris’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, 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
In 1930, 32,187 American boys and 164 girls were registered Richard — 5th among boys and 534th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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
Gladiator, This Sporting Life and The Field. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Crescent College.
Richard Harris was 26 when the work began in 1956.
The record gives Hodgkin lymphoma as the cause, and The Bahamas as the resting place.
Richard Harris was born to Ivan Harris, married Ann Turkel and Elizabeth Harris Aitken and raised 3 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read 1970s in Irish music, 1960s in Irish music and European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.
Philippe Noiret 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.
- Known for
- Gladiator, This Sporting Life and The Field
- Educated at
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Crescent College
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1967), European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2000) and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (1963)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy
- Working from
- 1956
- Cause of death
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Buried at
- The Bahamas
- Sport
- rugby
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 69
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Richard is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Richard even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Richard builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Richard is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 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 Harris
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Limerick 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 Limerick that night
Computed for 52.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Limerick was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 81.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 52.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Limerick at all: they sit past the −37.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Limerick, Ireland
- Lived in
- London
Wikidata records London as Richard Harris's home, against Limerick as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at University College Hospital, London Borough of Camden in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Harris: 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
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Richard Harris's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 1, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Richard Harris was born on October 1, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Richard Harris's birth date, October 1, 1930, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Harris' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Harris combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Richard’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.4° to 0.9° orb
Richard’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 1.9° orb
Richard’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.6° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysextileMars1.8° to 2.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.7° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.8° to 3.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°13′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 5°36′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°20′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 17°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.0°
- Eros square Mercury 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.6°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 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 semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Born the same day as Richard
Philippe Noiret was born on October 1, 1930 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 52.7°N, Limerick keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Horse years
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Other Libra Horse charts
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Other Evergreen Diplomats
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- Mark ConsuelosAmerican actor
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- Rhea DurhamAmerican model
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Sydney BrennerSouth African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Richard’s cards
Computed from October 1, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106775 (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 City of Boston Archives, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Harris 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 Harris.
Quick answers about Richard Harris’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Harris?
- Richard Harris was a Libra: born October 1, 1930, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Harris's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 1, 1930 birth.
- How tall was Richard Harris?
- Richard Harris was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Richard Harris's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Harris's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Harris's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Harris's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
