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, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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
In 1943, 46,339 American boys and 119 girls were registered Richard — 5th among boys and 701st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 1978, when Richard Roberts was 35.
Richard Roberts was taught at Beechen Cliff School and University of Sheffield.
On Wikipedia the categories read Scientists from Derby, People educated at City of Bath Boys' School and Alumni of the University of Sheffield.
Antonia Ax:son Johnson shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Beechen Cliff School and University of Sheffield
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993), Gabor Medal (2007) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1978)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
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. 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 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.
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 Roberts
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Derby 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 Derby that night
Computed for 52.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Derby at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.9° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 52.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 43% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Water planets · Venus retrograde
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
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
stableUranussextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMercurytrineMars1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.4° to 1.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.6° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 5°37′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 28°09′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 10°45′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°37′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
Born the same day as Richard
Antonia Ax:son Johnson was born on September 6, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 52.9°N, Derby keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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- Michael Rosbash1944
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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
Computed from September 6, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309816 (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 paloma.cl, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Roberts 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 Roberts.
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.
- 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 is Richard Roberts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Roberts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
