Richard Smalley
Richard Smalley (born June 6, 1943, Akron, United States; died 2005), was an American chemist. Smalley's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, John Scott Award and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Richard Smalley’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Goat, with 
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Richard Smalley’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, 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
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
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
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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.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Richard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Richard creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 2 is the peacemaker. Richard is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Richard gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Richard Smalley's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Richard Smalley was born on June 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 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Richard Smalley's birth date, June 6, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Smalley's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Richard Smalley combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Smalley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.3° orb
Richard’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 8.0° orb
Richard’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Richard’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.2° orb
Richard’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 2.5° orb
Richard’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrinePluto1.8° to 2.5° orb
Richard’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 2.1° orb
Richard’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileUranus2.0° to 2.6° orb
Richard’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
Richard’s affections and growth act as one.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
Richard’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 24°43′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Richard performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Richard is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCancer 20°35′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Richard is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°10′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Richard at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°26′ (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.
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.4°
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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 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.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Smalley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Richard’s cards
Every card is computed from June 6, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Smalley, 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 Q106746, 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 RonnieV, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Smalley at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Smalley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Smalley?
- Richard Smalley was a Gemini: born June 6, 1943, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- What was Richard Smalley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1943 birth.
- What time was Richard Smalley 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 Smalley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the June 6, 1943 birth date.
- What was Richard Smalley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 6, 1943 birth date.
- Where was Richard Smalley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Smalley's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
