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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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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
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Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Richard Matheson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Richard’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.3° orb
Richard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.3° to 5.0° orb
Richard’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.9° to 5.9° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 24°47′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Richard may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 17°03′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Richard is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°17′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Richard attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 10°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Richard is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Richard is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Richard’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Richard is read as tuned to what is not said.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Matheson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Richard’s cards
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♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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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
No birth time is on public record for Richard Matheson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q325130, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- 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 time was Richard Matheson born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Richard Matheson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1926 birth date.
- What was Richard Matheson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1926 birth date.
- 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.
