Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers (born June 28, 1902, Queens, United States; died 1979), was an American composer of songs and Broadway musicals. Rodgers is best remembered for The King and I. Rodgers's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Richard Rodgers’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Tiger, with 
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Richard Rodgers’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Richard in the U.S.?
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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
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
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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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Richard is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Richard leads without needing to do it alone.
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 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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Richard Rodgers's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1902, 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.
Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Richard Rodgers was born on June 28, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Richard Rodgers's birth date, June 28, 1902, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Rodgers' date-only chart is Uranus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
- Richard Rodgers combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Rodgers, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableUranusoppositionPluto0.0° orb
Richard’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.1° to 1.9° orb
Richard’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.7° to 2.9° orb
Richard’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.1° orb
Richard’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.8° orb
Richard’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.3° to 4.0° 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.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.3° to 4.0° orb
Richard’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.2° to 5.1° orb
Richard’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.5° to 7.9° orb
Richard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 12°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Richard is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 29°10′ (moves 0.43° 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.
♡ ErosTaurus 19°15′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Richard wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°19′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Richard is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°37′ (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.
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 3.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 3.0°
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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Rodgers, 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
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Rodgers, 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 Q269094, 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 Rodgers_and_Hammerstein_and_Berlin_and_Tamiris_NYWTS.jpg: Al Aumuller, World Telegram staff photographer derivative work: — The Man in Question (gesprec) · (forðung), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Rodgers at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Rodgers’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Rodgers?
- Richard Rodgers was a Cancer: born June 28, 1902, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
- What was Richard Rodgers's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1902 birth.
- What time was Richard Rodgers 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 was Richard Rodgers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 28, 1902 birth date.
- What was Richard Rodgers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 28, 1902 birth date.
- Where was Richard Rodgers's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Rodgers's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
