Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes (born July 4, 1937, Kansas City, United States), aged 89, is a Historian, journalist and writer from the USA. Rhodes's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Richard Rhodes’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Ox, with 
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Richard Rhodes’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
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
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard feels the room before entering it. The core of Richard is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Richard, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Richard is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Richard creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Richard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Richard Rhodes in 15 seconds
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Richard Rhodes's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Richard Rhodes was born on July 4, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Richard Rhodes's birth date, July 4, 1937, 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 Rhodes' date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Rhodes combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Rhodes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Taurus or 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.
stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.0° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussextilePluto0.6° to 1.5° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.6° to 3.8° orb
Richard’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
Richard’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
Richard’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.7° orb
Richard’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.8° to 4.8° orb
Richard’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.8° to 4.0° orb
Richard’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.2° orb
Richard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.0° to 4.2° orb
Richard’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionMars6.5° to 7.4° orb
Richard’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus7.0° to 7.1° orb
Richard’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 26°00′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Richard turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 0°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Richard is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 21°11′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Richard is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°11′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Richard at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Richard leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 Jupiter 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.8°
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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Richard is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Rhodes, 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 Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Rhodes, 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 Q686683, 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 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Rhodes at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Rhodes’s chart
- How old is Richard Rhodes?
- Richard Rhodes is 89 years old, born July 4, 1937 in Kansas City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Rhodes?
- Richard Rhodes is a Cancer: born July 4, 1937, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
- What is Richard Rhodes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1937 birth.
- What time was Richard Rhodes 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 Rhodes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the July 4, 1937 birth date.
- What is Richard Rhodes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 4, 1937 birth date.
- Where is Richard Rhodes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Rhodes's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
