Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson (born February 20, 1926, Allendale, United States; died 2013), was an American fiction writer. Matheson's honours include Tähtivaeltaja Award, Edgar Awards and World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Richard Matheson’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Matheson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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
The SSA recorded 25,143 American boys and 119 girls named Richard in 1926: 7th among boys and 665th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against 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
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Richard apart
Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Richard is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Richard needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Richard be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Richard creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Richard is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Richard does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Allendale 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 Allendale that night
Computed for 41.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Allendale at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 10.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
Allendale sits at 41.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Allendale on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 66% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Pisces · Venus retrograde
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Richard Matheson's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Richard Matheson was born on February 20, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Richard Matheson's birth date, February 20, 1926, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Matheson's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Richard Matheson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Gemini 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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 1.0° orb
Richard’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
Richard’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars2.4° to 3.6° orb
Richard’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.3° to 5.0° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.9° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 2.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 3.0° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 4.5° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironAries 24°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 17°03′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°17′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 10°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Uranus 0.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.3°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.1°
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on February 20
- Kurt Cobain1967
- Mitch McConnell1942
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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- Justice HillAmerican football player (born 1997)
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Other Pisces Tiger charts
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Other Gilded Explorers
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- Wanya MorrisAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tim Hardaway Jr.American basketball player (born 1992)
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Daniel WhelanIrish player of American football
- Harrison SmithAmerican football player
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Richard’s cards
Computed from February 20, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q325130 (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 JaSunni at PicasaWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Matheson at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Matheson.
Quick answers about Richard Matheson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Matheson?
- Richard Matheson was a Pisces: born February 20, 1926, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Matheson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1926 birth.
- What was Richard Matheson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Matheson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Matheson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Matheson's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
