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Richard Strout

Richard Strout (born March 14, 1898, Cohoes, United States; died 1990), was an American journalist. Strout's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, George Polk Award and The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism.

Richard Strout’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Richard Strout’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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

7 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

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What the chart says

Richard, according to the stars

Core essence

Richard feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Richard is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Richard is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Richard needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Richard wants to be loved

Richard wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Richard creates

How Richard makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Richard creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Richard is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Richard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Richard goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Richard sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Richard

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Richard

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Richard

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Richard

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Richard

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Richard Strout

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cohoes on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Richard’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 84° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 17.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Richard Strout in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Richard Strout's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 14, 1898, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Earth Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Richard Strout was born on March 14, 1898, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Richard Strout's birth date, March 14, 1898, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Richard’s chart

Richard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Richard Strout, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.3° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.7° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Pisces · 24°09′☉24°Moon in Sagittarius · 16°03′☽16°Mercury in Pisces · 22°16′☿22°Venus in Aries · 0°45′♀0°Mars in Aquarius · 24°54′♂24°Jupiter in Libra · 6°50′ · retrograde♃℞6°Saturn in Sagittarius · 12°14′♄12°Uranus in Sagittarius · 3°32′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Gemini · 19°48′♆19°Pluto in Gemini · 12°47′♇12°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Richard’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.4° to 2.3° orb

    Richard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune1.5° to 3.4° orb

    Richard’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.2° to 3.4° orb

    Richard’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.2° to 3.4° orb

    Richard’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb

    Richard’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune4.7° to 5.5° orb

    Richard’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.4° to 6.8° orb

    Richard’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb

    Richard’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.7° orb

    Richard’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.0° orb

    Richard’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.6° orb

    Richard’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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 ℞Scorpio 29°23′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Richard carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 1°02′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Richard is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 25°42′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Richard is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 27°48′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Richard needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 21°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Richard that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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 square Venus 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.1°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.6°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 2.9°
  • Hygiea square Venus 3.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 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. 1. ♆ Neptune10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Richard is read as tuned to what is not said.

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.

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Saturn 0.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Strout, 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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The Tower

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The Radiant Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Richard Strout, 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 Q7329285, 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.

The same Richard Strout at Wikipedia.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Richard Strout.

Quick answers about Richard Strout’s chart

What zodiac sign was Richard Strout?
Richard Strout was a Pisces: born March 14, 1898, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog.
What was Richard Strout's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 14, 1898 birth.
What time was Richard Strout 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 Strout's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the March 14, 1898 birth date.
What was Richard Strout's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 14, 1898 birth date.
Where was Richard Strout's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Richard Strout's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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