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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

Richard ranked 5th among boys and 726th among girls in 1945, the year of this birth, with 46,046 American boys and 106 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Richard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement 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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, 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

Richard Henderson took the Rosenstiel Award in 1990, at 45.

Corpus Christi College and Hawick High School shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Richard Henderson under Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, People educated at Hawick High School and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Corpus Christi College, Hawick High School and Boroughmuir High School
Awards
Copley Medal (2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017) and Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics (2016)
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
47

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. 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 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 →

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

The sky over Edinburgh that night

Computed for 55.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Edinburgh at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Draco.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 56.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun -4° below the horizon, Moon up and 74% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Richard's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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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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.

What Cancer means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Richard Henderson was born on July 19, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

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.

What Life Path 9 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 14° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Richard’s dominant planets

  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

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.

  • 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°

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Richard’s cards

Computed from July 19, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1678456 (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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Richard Henderson at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Richard Henderson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Richard Henderson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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