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Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson (born July 19, 1945, Edinburgh, United Kingdom), aged 81, is a Nobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945). Henderson's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal and Rosenstiel Award.

Richard Henderson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Richard Henderson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Richard, according to the stars

Core essence

Richard feels the room before entering it. The core of Richard is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Richard, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

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 in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Richard like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Richard creates

How Richard makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Richard creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Richard is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Richard is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Richard sits

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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

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

PracticalVisionary
Richard

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Richard

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Richard Henderson

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

Richard’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Richard Henderson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 19, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Richard Henderson was born on July 19, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Richard Henderson's birth date, July 19, 1945, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Richard’s chart

Richard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Richard Henderson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 2.8° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.3° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbSun in Cancer · 26°23′☉26°Moon in Scorpio · 20°08′☽20°Mercury in Leo · 22°57′☿22°Venus in Gemini · 12°24′♀12°Mars in Taurus · 27°18′♂27°Jupiter in Virgo · 23°17′♃23°Saturn in Cancer · 16°00′♄16°Uranus in Gemini · 15°44′♅15°Neptune in Libra · 3°58′♆3°Pluto in Leo · 9°27′♇9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableSunsextileMars0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Richard’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.4° to 3.5° orb

    Richard’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.7° to 3.5° orb

    Richard’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb

    Richard’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.7° to 4.3° orb

    Richard’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb

    Richard’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.7° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 1.5° to 12.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 4.7° to 16.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 29°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Richard turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 29°28′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Richard is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 11°31′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Richard is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 15°14′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Richard is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Richard that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.5°
  • Eros trine Venus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 2.1°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.8°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Richard’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Richard is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Richard’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury quintile Venus 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Henderson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Richard’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Richard Henderson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1678456, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Richard Henderson at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Richard Henderson.

Quick answers about Richard Henderson’s chart

How old is Richard Henderson?
Richard Henderson is 81 years old, born July 19, 1945 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Richard Henderson?
Richard Henderson is a Cancer: born July 19, 1945, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
What is Richard Henderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 19, 1945 birth.
What time was Richard Henderson born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Richard Henderson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 19, 1945 birth date.
What is Richard Henderson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 19, 1945 birth date.
Where is Richard Henderson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Richard Henderson's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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