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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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
Of the names registered in 1957, Richard came 8th among boys and 956th among girls, carried by 52,446 American boys and 117 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
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
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 record
What sets Richard apart
Paul McCartney (1942) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989) 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 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. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Richard Powers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Evanston 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 Evanston that night
Computed for 42.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Evanston at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 7.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Evanston on any night.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 63% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 1 planet 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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.3° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 11°23′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 16°53′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 13°19′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 2°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Richard’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.3°
More people like Richard
Other writers
- Katherine Ellison1957
- Forrest Gander1956
- Natalie Angier1958
- Lynne Spears1955
- Connie Schultz1957
- Martina Navratilova1956
Born in United States
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- Blair KaminAmerican architecture critic
- Mykelti WilliamsonAmerican actor and director
- Frances McDormandAmerican actress
- Kenneth R. WeissAmerican journalist
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on June 18
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Dereck Lively IIAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Nikola JokićSerbian basketball player (born 1995)
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- Eddie AdamsAmerican photographer
- Dana PriestAmerican journalist
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Other Gilded Storytellers
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- Patrick WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Cade CunninghamAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Richard’s cards
Computed from June 18, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q638179 (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 Phoebe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Powers 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 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.
- 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 is Richard Powers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Powers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
