Richard R. Schrock
Richard R. Schrock (born January 4, 1945, Berne, United States), aged 81, is a 1945-, American chemist. Schrock's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Humboldt Prize and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Richard R. Schrock’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard R. Schrock’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, 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
Richard ranked 5th among boys and 726th among girls in 1945, the year of this birth, with 46,046 American boys and 106 girls on the register.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Richard apart
Richard R. Schrock took the American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 1985, at 40.
Mission Bay High School and University of California, Riverside shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Richard R. Schrock under People from Berne, Indiana, Scientists from San Diego and University of California, Riverside faculty.
Victor Wembanyama (2004) and Rayssa Leal (2008) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Mission Bay High School, University of California, Riverside and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2014) and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2008)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Richard is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Richard creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Richard is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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
Dedicate a star to Richard R. Schrock
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berne 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 Berne that night
Computed for 40.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Berne at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.6° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 64% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Richard R. Schrock's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 4, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Richard R. Schrock was born on January 4, 1945, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Richard R. Schrock's birth date, January 4, 1945, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard R. Schrock's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard R. Schrock combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 7.0° orb
Richard’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableVenussextileMars0.2° to 0.6° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableUranussextilePluto0.2° orb
Richard’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter1.4° to 2.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.4° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 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.
⚷ ChironLibra 3°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 27°32′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 1°26′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 3°33′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.9°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.7°
- Eros trine Mars 2.3°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.7°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.9°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
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Richard’s cards
Computed from January 4, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202159 (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 R._Schrock_-_IChO_2012_Opening_Ceremony.JPG: A.mela93 derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard R. Schrock at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard R. Schrock.
Quick answers about Richard R. Schrock’s chart
- How old is Richard R. Schrock?
- Richard R. Schrock is 81 years old, born January 4, 1945 in Berne, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Richard R. Schrock?
- Richard R. Schrock is a Capricorn: born January 4, 1945, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Richard R. Schrock's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 4, 1945 birth.
- What is Richard R. Schrock's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard R. Schrock's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Richard R. Schrock's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard R. Schrock's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
