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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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
The SSA recorded 32,975 American boys and 118 girls named Richard in 1937: 5th among boys and 627th among girls for the year.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1974, when Richard Rhodes was 37.
Study took Richard Rhodes to Yale University.
Wikipedia files Richard Rhodes under Journalists from Missouri, Writers from Kansas City, Kansas and Historians from Missouri.
Post Malone (1995) and Michael Sorrentino (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1974), Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1988) and National Book Award (1987)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
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. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Rhodes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City 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 Kansas City that night
Computed for 39.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Kansas City at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 12.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
Kansas City sits at 39.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kansas City on any night.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon down and 13% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Air planets
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.
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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableMarssextileNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.7° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars6.5° to 7.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus7.0° to 7.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 26°00′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 0°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 21°11′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°11′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.8°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Richard’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
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Richard’s cards
Computed from July 4, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q686683 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Rhodes.
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.
- 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 is Richard Rhodes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Rhodes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
