Richard Robson
Richard Robson (born June 4, 1937, Glusburn, United Kingdom), aged 89, is a British-Australian chemist. Robson's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Richard Robson’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Robson’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, 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
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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
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
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science came in 2000, when Richard Robson was 63.
Richard Robson was taught at University of Oxford.
Wikipedia files Richard Robson under Academic staff of the University of Melbourne, Australian materials scientists and English emigrants to Australia.
Angelina Jolie (1975) and Russell Brand (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025), Fellow of the Royal Society (2022) and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2000)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Richard needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Richard needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 3 is the creative. Richard is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glusburn 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 Glusburn that night
Computed for 53.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alioth stood nearest the zenith over Glusburn at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 53.9°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 −36.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 22% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars 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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Richard Robson's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 4, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Richard Robson was born on June 4, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Richard Robson's birth date, June 4, 1937, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Robson's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Richard Robson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Richard’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.7° to 3.7° orb
Richard’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussquarePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.3° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.4° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°17′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 29°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 4°53′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 21°57′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°06′ (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 trine Pluto 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.1°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
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Richard’s cards
Computed from June 4, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23073819 (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.
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Quick answers about Richard Robson’s chart
- How old is Richard Robson?
- Richard Robson is 89 years old, born June 4, 1937 in Glusburn, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Richard Robson?
- Richard Robson is a Gemini: born June 4, 1937, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Richard Robson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 4, 1937 birth.
- What is Richard Robson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Richard Robson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Richard Robson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Richard Robson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
