Richard Roberts
Richard Roberts (born September 6, 1943, Derby, United Kingdom), aged 83, is an English biochemist and molecular biologist. Roberts's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Bachelor and Gabor Medal.
Richard Roberts’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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Richard Roberts’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, 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
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Richard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Richard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Richard creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Richard is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Richard scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Richard Roberts's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Richard Roberts was born on September 6, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Richard Roberts's birth date, September 6, 1943, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Roberts' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Roberts combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Roberts, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.5° orb
Richard’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.1° to 0.6° orb
Richard’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.4° to 0.8° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextilePluto0.5° to 0.9° orb
Richard’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Richard’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineMars1.0° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.4° to 1.9° orb
Richard’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareUranus3.1° to 3.8° orb
Richard’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus3.7° to 4.6° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareMars4.5° to 5.6° orb
Richard’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb
Richard’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareMars5.6° to 6.0° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 5°37′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Richard turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresGemini 28°09′ (moves 0.29° 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.
♡ ErosLibra 10°45′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Richard is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°37′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Richard is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Richard is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Chiron square Mars 1.6°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.9°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.9°
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. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Roberts, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Richard
Antonia Ax:son Johnson was born on September 6, 1943 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Richard’s cards
Every card is computed from September 6, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Roberts, 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 Q309816, 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 paloma.cl, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Roberts at Wikipedia.
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 Roberts’s chart
- How old is Richard Roberts?
- Richard Roberts is 83 years old, born September 6, 1943 in Derby, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Roberts?
- Richard Roberts is a Virgo: born September 6, 1943, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- What is Richard Roberts's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1943 birth.
- What time was Richard Roberts 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 Roberts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 6, 1943 birth date.
- What is Richard Roberts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 6, 1943 birth date.
- Where is Richard Roberts's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Roberts's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
