Richard Marquand
Richard Marquand (born September 22, 1937, Llanishen, United Kingdom; died 1987), was a British film director. Marquand's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Richard Marquand’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Marquand’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional 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
The SSA recorded 32,975 American boys and 118 girls named Richard in 1937: 5th among boys and 627th among girls for the year.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
33 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Richard apart
Michael Faraday (1791) and Andrea Bocelli (1958) 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 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.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Richard creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Richard is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Llanishen 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 Llanishen that night
Computed for 51.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Llanishen at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Llanishen sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Llanishen on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · 2 planets 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Richard Marquand's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 22, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Richard Marquand was born on September 22, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 33
Life Path 33Lifts the room by example.
Richard Marquand's birth date, September 22, 1937, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 33 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Marquand's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Richard Marquand combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextilePluto0.3° to 1.3° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.5° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineMars1.6° to 2.2° orb
Richard’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.0° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 1°00′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°44′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 1°19′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 1°09′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Chiron square Sun 2.0°
- Eros trine Sun 2.3°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.0°
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Fellow Virgo suns
- Eileen GuAmerican-born Chinese freestyle skier
- Shane WarneAustralian cricketer
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Born in Ox years
- Les WexnerAmerican businessman (1937-present)
- Anthony SalimIndonesian businessman
- Dmitry BukhmanIsraeli billionaire businessman
Also born on September 22
- Michael Faraday1791
- Andrea Bocelli1958
- Thiago Silva1984
- Tom Felton1987
- Nick Cave1957
- Joan Jett1958
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Joseph LauHong Kong businessman
- Josh HarrisAmerican investor and sports team owner
- Michael Bambang HartonoIndonesian businessman
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Devin SingletaryAmerican football player
- Erik McCoyAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Akeem Davis-GaitherAmerican football outside linebacker
- Benjamin St-JusteAmerican football players from Canada
Other Tidal Healers
- Ted KooserAmerican poet
- Charles McLean AndrewsAmerican historian
- Daniel BellingerAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Riley MinixAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 33
- Peyton Elizabeth LeeAmerican actress
- Count Felix of MonpezatDanish former prince; younger son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
- Frances McDormandAmerican actress
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Richard’s cards
Computed from September 22, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q471402 (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 Marquand at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Marquand.
Quick answers about Richard Marquand’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Marquand?
- Richard Marquand was a Virgo: born September 22, 1937, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Marquand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 22, 1937 birth.
- What was Richard Marquand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Marquand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Marquand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Marquand's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
