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Richard Wernick

Richard Wernick (born January 16, 1934, Boston, United States; died 2025), was an American composer. Wernick is best remembered for Visions of Terror and Wonder. Wernick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Arts and Letters Award in Music.

Richard Wernick’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Richard Wernick’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

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) × cardinal 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

The SSA recorded 33,167 American boys and 129 girls named Richard in 1934: 5th among boys and 566th 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

6

Soul Urge · being needed

3

Personality · bright, quick

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

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 record Richard Wernick is measured by: Visions of Terror and Wonder.

Wikipedia files Richard Wernick under Musicians from Boston, Pupils of Irving Fine and University at Buffalo alumni.

Marilyn Horne shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Visions of Terror and Wonder
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1976), Pulitzer Prize for Music (1977) and Arts and Letters Award in Music (1976)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
6

What the chart says

Richard, according to the stars

Core essence

Richard is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Richard is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Richard needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Richard needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Richard wants to be loved

Richard wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Richard be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Richard creates

How Richard makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Richard creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Richard is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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. Working below.

Where Richard sits

Six lines

Richard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Richard

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Richard

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

PrivateExpressive
Richard

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Richard

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Richard

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Richard

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Richard’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 85.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 39.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Boston at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Auriga.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Boston, United States

The death is recorded at Haverford, Delaware County in 2025.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Wernick: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Richard's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

Grand cross · 1 unaspected planet · Venus 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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Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Richard Wernick's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Richard Wernick was born on January 16, 1934, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Richard Wernick's birth date, January 16, 1934, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Richard’s chart

Richard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.1° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.7° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.1° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 25°54′☉25°Moon in Aquarius · 11°59′☽11°Mercury in Capricorn · 23°43′☿23°Venus in Aquarius · 23°37′ · retrograde♀℞23°Mars in Aquarius · 15°24′♂15°Jupiter in Libra · 22°28′♃22°Saturn in Aquarius · 16°08′♄16°Uranus in Aries · 23°33′♅23°Neptune in Virgo · 12°06′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Cancer · 23°36′ · retrograde♇℞23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Richard’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Richard’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Richard’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.5° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 2.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 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 ℞Taurus 29°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 14°51′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 1°34′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°01′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.5°

Richard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    6 major aspects

Configurations in Richard’s chart

  • grand cross, the shape it makesGrand cross · Mercury, Pluto, Jupiter, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
  • grand cross, the shape it makesGrand cross · Jupiter, Uranus, Sun, PlutoTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°

Born the same day as Richard

Marilyn Horne was born on January 16, 1934 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Boston sits at 42.4°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Richard’s cards

Computed from January 16, 1934. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7329895 (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.

The same Richard Wernick 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 Wernick.

Quick answers about Richard Wernick’s chart

What zodiac sign was Richard Wernick?
Richard Wernick was a Capricorn: born January 16, 1934, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Richard Wernick's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1934 birth.
What was Richard Wernick's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Richard Wernick's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Richard Wernick's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Richard Wernick's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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