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Richard Howard

Richard Howard (born October 13, 1929, Cleveland, United States; died 2022), was an American poet and literary critic. Howard's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Knight of the National Order of Merit and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Richard Howard’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Richard Howard’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Strategist

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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

In 1929, 29,572 American boys and 200 girls were registered Richard — 6th among boys and 477th 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.

4

Expression · building what holds

8

Soul Urge · achievement

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, 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 Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1966, when Richard Howard was 37.

Study took Richard Howard to Faculty of Arts of Paris and Columbia University.

On Wikipedia the categories read American lexicographers, LGBTQ Jews and French-English translators.

Margaret Thatcher (1925) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Faculty of Arts of Paris and Columbia University
Awards
National Book Award (1983), Guggenheim Fellowship (1966) and Robert Frost Medal (2004)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
French and English
Wikipedia editions
12

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.

The vibe

Underneath, Richard needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Richard needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Richard wants to be loved

Richard wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Richard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Richard creates

How Richard makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Richard creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Richard is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Richard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

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

PrivateExpressive
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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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

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

Richard’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 74.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 18.7° 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 Cleveland that night

Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Cleveland at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 15.4° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

Cleveland sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cleveland on any night.

Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 80% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Cleveland, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2022.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Howard: 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.

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Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Richard Howard's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 13, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Richard Howard was born on October 13, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Richard Howard's birth date, October 13, 1929, 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 16° to 28° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.2° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.3° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.1° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.6° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.6° orbSun in Libra · 19°52′☉19°Moon in Aquarius · 22°27′☽22°Mercury in Libra · 9°10′ · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Virgo · 21°59′♀21°Mars in Scorpio · 4°54′♂4°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°17′ · retrograde♃℞16°Saturn in Sagittarius · 25°32′♄25°Uranus in Aries · 8°58′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Virgo · 2°48′♆2°Pluto in Cancer · 19°37′♇19°

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

  • stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Richard’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Richard’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussextilePluto1.8° to 3.0° orb

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

  • stableMarssextileNeptune1.8° to 2.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.1° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 4.2° to 16.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 6.6° to 18.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 18°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 19°18′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 6°59′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.6°
  • Eros sextile Venus 2.7°

Richard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Saturn; 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.

  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.8°

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Richard’s cards

Computed from October 13, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2636383 (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.

The same Richard Howard at Wikipedia 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 Howard.

Quick answers about Richard Howard’s chart

What zodiac sign was Richard Howard?
Richard Howard was a Libra: born October 13, 1929, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Richard Howard's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 13, 1929 birth.
What was Richard Howard's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Richard Howard's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Richard Howard's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Richard Howard's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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