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Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur (born March 1, 1921, New York City, United States; died 2017), was an American poet. Wilbur's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Richard Wilbur’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Richard Wilbur’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, 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

The SSA recorded 16,376 American boys and 71 girls named Richard in 1921: 10th among boys and 881st 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.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

7

Personality · composed, private

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

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Richard apart

Javier Bardem (1969) and Lupita Nyong'o (1983) 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 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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Richard creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Richard is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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

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

Richard’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 62.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Castor, in Gemini, 81.0° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at last quarter, 45% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

How unusual Richard's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Pisces · Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet

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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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Richard Wilbur's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Richard Wilbur was born on March 1, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Richard Wilbur's birth date, March 1, 1921, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 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 5° to 17° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 0.5° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.5° orbSun in Pisces · 10°35′☉10°Moon in Sagittarius · 11°57′☽11°Mercury in Pisces · 13°22′ · retrograde☿℞13°Venus in Aries · 25°39′♀25°Mars in Aries · 12°29′♂12°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°25′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Virgo · 22°17′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Pisces · 5°55′♅5°Neptune in Leo · 11°38′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Cancer · 6°53′ · retrograde♇℞6°

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

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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

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.9° orb

    Richard’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.3° orb

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

  • stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.4° orb

    Richard’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus4.2° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.2° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto6.0° to 7.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

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

Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 8°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 27°05′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 28°22′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 27°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 25°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron square Pluto 1.3°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.5°
  • Eros square Venus 2.7°

Richard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Richard’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.7°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.9°

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Richard’s cards

Computed from March 1, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1333582 (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 Pekka Tarkka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Richard Wilbur 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 Wilbur.

Quick answers about Richard Wilbur’s chart

What zodiac sign was Richard Wilbur?
Richard Wilbur was a Pisces: born March 1, 1921, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Richard Wilbur's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1921 birth.
What was Richard Wilbur's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Richard Wilbur's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Richard Wilbur's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Richard Wilbur's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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