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, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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.?
#234
US rank in 2025
~2,587,082
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
Richard ranked 26th among boys and 1,755th among girls in 1902, the year of this birth, with 908 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
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
The record
What sets Richard apart
Elon Musk (1971) and Muhammad Yunus (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. 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 Rodgers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Queens at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 13.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Queens on any night.
The Moon, 48% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableJupitertrinePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.2° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.5° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 12°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 29°10′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 19°15′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°19′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.3°
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on June 28
- Elon Musk1971
- Muhammad Yunus1940
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- Charles De KetelaereBelgian footballer (born 2001)
- Micky van de VenDutch footballer (born 2001)
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- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2025
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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Richard’s cards
Computed from June 28, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q269094 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Rodgers.
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.
- 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 was Richard Rodgers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Rodgers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
