Richard L. Wilson
Richard L. Wilson (born September 3, 1905, Galesburg, United States; died 1981), was an American journalist. Wilson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and Golden Plate Award.
Richard L. Wilson’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard L. Wilson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Of the names registered in 1905, Richard came 22nd, carried by 1,033 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
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
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1905, 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 L. Wilson took the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1954, at 49.
Cause of death is recorded as lymphoma; the grave is at Rock Creek Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Richard L. Wilson: Deaths from lymphoma in Washington, D.C., People from Newton, Iowa and Burials at Rock Creek Cemetery.
The same date carries Carl David Anderson. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1954) and Golden Plate Award (1966)
- Cause of death
- lymphoma
- Buried at
- Rock Creek Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Richard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
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 out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Richard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 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 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Richard has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 L. Wilson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Galesburg 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 Galesburg that night
Computed for 40.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Galesburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Galesburg at all: they sit past the −49.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 27% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Richard L. Wilson at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Richard L. Wilson's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 3, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Richard L. Wilson was born on September 3, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Richard L. Wilson's birth date, September 3, 1905, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard L. Wilson's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Richard L. Wilson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° 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
stableSunsextileNeptune0.1° to 1.0° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.5° to 2.1° orb
Richard’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° orb
Richard’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.7° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.0° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 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 ℞Aquarius 2°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°02′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 2°18′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 13°43′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Venus 0.1°
- Eros opposition Venus 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Sun 1.5°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.5°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.0°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.4°
Born the same day as Richard
Carl David Anderson was born on September 3, 1905 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. Galesburg sits at 41.0°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Richard’s cards
Computed from September 3, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7327215 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard L. Wilson.
Quick answers about Richard L. Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard L. Wilson?
- Richard L. Wilson was a Virgo: born September 3, 1905, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard L. Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 3, 1905 birth.
- What was Richard L. Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard L. Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard L. Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard L. Wilson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
