Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957, Evanston, United States), aged 69, is an American novelist (born 1957). Powers is best known for Operation Wandering Soul, Galatea 2.2 and Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. Powers's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Richard Powers’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Richard Powers’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Richard needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Richard needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Richard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Richard creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Richard is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Richard leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Richard does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Richard sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Evanston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Richard Powers's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 18, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Richard Powers was born on June 18, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Richard Powers's birth date, June 18, 1957, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Powers' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Powers combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Powers, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Pisces 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.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb
Richard’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.9° orb
Richard’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableSunsextilePluto0.7° to 1.6° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.4° to 2.0° orb
Richard’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Richard’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb
Richard’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.5° to 4.4° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
Richard’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
Richard’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.3° to 6.9° orb
Richard’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.8° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Richard making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresGemini 11°23′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Richard feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCancer 16°53′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Richard is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAries 13°19′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Richard feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 2°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Richard is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Hygiea square Venus 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.5°
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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Richard is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Powers, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Richard’s cards
Every card is computed from June 18, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Powers, 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 Q638179, 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 Phoebe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Powers 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Richard Powers.
Quick answers about Richard Powers’s chart
- How old is Richard Powers?
- Richard Powers is 69 years old, born June 18, 1957 in Evanston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Powers?
- Richard Powers is a Gemini: born June 18, 1957, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Richard Powers's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 18, 1957 birth.
- What time was Richard Powers 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 is Richard Powers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 18, 1957 birth date.
- What is Richard Powers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 18, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Richard Powers's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Powers's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
