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Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater (born July 30, 1960, Houston, United States), aged 66, is an American director and screenwriter (born 1960). Linklater is best known for Before Midnight, Boyhood and School of Rock. Linklater's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Director, BAFTA Award for Best Direction and César Award for Best Director.

Richard Linklater’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Richard Linklater’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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

Richard ranked 8th among boys and 964th among girls in 1960, the year of this birth, with 43,553 American boys and 124 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

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

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 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Gold · Silver

The record

What sets Richard apart

Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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.

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 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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Richard

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

PrivateExpressive
Richard

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

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

PracticalVisionary
Richard

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Richard

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Richard’s birth-night reference starKornephorosyellow · HerculesKornephoros, in Hercules. A yellow star, 81.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kornephoros →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 33.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Houston that night

Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Houston was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 81.1° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 79 catalog stars were up in all.

From 29.8°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 −60.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 45% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.

How unusual Richard's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Leo · No Air planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Richard Linklater's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Richard Linklater was born on July 30, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Richard Linklater's birth date, July 30, 1960, 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 20° to 3° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.8° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.9° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 6.5° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 6.6° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 6.9° orbSun in Leo · 7°30′☉7°Moon in Libra · 27°16′☽27°Mercury in Cancer · 20°24′☿20°Venus in Leo · 18°00′♀17°Mars in Taurus · 28°21′♂28°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 24°27′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Capricorn · 13°29′ · retrograde♄℞13°Uranus in Leo · 20°31′♅20°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°24′♆6°Pluto in Virgo · 4°55′♇4°

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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.9° to 3.1° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto6.2° to 6.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.8° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.2° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.4° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.0° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 2.4° to 15.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 3.3° to 15.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°56′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 25°14′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 26°03′ (moves 0.71° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°11′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.3°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.9°

Richard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn3 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Richard’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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-sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Venus biquintile Saturn 1.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 2.0°

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Richard’s cards

Computed from July 30, 1960. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40035 (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 Sarah K Joyce, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Richard Linklater at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Linklater.

Quick answers about Richard Linklater’s chart

How old is Richard Linklater?
Richard Linklater is 66 years old, born July 30, 1960 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Richard Linklater?
Richard Linklater is a Leo: born July 30, 1960, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Richard Linklater's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1960 birth.
What is Richard Linklater's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Richard Linklater's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Richard Linklater's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Richard Linklater's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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