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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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

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 · 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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Richard sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Richard Wernick

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 →

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.

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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

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. 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 Wernick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. 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.

  • 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

    Richard’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Richard’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.5° to 2.0° orb

    Richard’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Richard’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.1° orb

    Richard’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Richard’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb

    Richard’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.8° to 2.8° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 2.5° orb

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

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

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 ℞Taurus 29°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Richard building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

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

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Richard looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

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

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Richard is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

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

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Richard is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Richard guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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

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. ♄ 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

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Richard is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Wernick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Richard

Marilyn Horne was born on January 16, 1934 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Richard’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Tower

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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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

No birth time is on public record for Richard Wernick, 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 Q7329895, 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 Wernick 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
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 time was Richard Wernick 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 Wernick's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 16, 1934 birth date.
What was Richard Wernick's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 16, 1934 birth date.
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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