Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter (born August 6, 1916, Buffalo, United States; died 1970), was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize for History and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
Richard Hofstadter’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Hofstadter’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
Of the names registered in 1916, Richard came 15th among boys and 1,079th among girls, carried by 10,134 American boys and 43 girls.
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
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
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
22 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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 1916, 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 Hofstadter took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1956, at 40.
The classrooms behind this chart: University at Buffalo and City Honors School.
Cause of death is recorded as leukemia.
Richard Hofstadter was married Felice Swados and Beatrice K. Hofstadter.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Richard Hofstadter: American historiographers, Populism scholars and Left-wing politics in the United States.
Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University at Buffalo, City Honors School and Columbia University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1956), Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (1963) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1964)
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 23
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Richard is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Richard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Richard creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Richard is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Richard fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Hofstadter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buffalo 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 Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Buffalo was Eltanin, in Draco, 81.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 52% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Buffalo, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 1970.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Hofstadter: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Richard Hofstadter's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Richard Hofstadter was born on August 6, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Richard Hofstadter's birth date, August 6, 1916, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Hofstadter's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Hofstadter combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Scorpio 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
stableVenussextileJupiter0.9° to 1.2° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.3° orb
Richard’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.0° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.7° to 6.7° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.7° to 5.3° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.2° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 27°59′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 4°39′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 27°03′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.4°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Richard’s cards
Computed from August 6, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
22 · Master Builder☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q982698 (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.
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Quick answers about Richard Hofstadter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Hofstadter?
- Richard Hofstadter was a Leo: born August 6, 1916, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Hofstadter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1916 birth.
- What was Richard Hofstadter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Hofstadter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Hofstadter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Hofstadter's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
