Richard Willstätter
Richard Willstätter (born August 13, 1872, Karlsruhe, Germany; died 1942), was a German chemist. Willstätter's honours include Willard Gibbs Award, Faraday Lectureship Prize and Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
Richard Willstätter’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Monkey, with 
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Richard Willstätter’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Richard is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Richard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Richard creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Richard is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Richard does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Richard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Richard Willstätter's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 13, 1872, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Monkey
Water MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Richard Willstätter was born on August 13, 1872, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Richard Willstätter's birth date, August 13, 1872, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Willstätter's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Richard Willstätter combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Richard Willstätter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Scorpio or 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.
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.
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Richard’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
Richard’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.3° to 0.6° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.1° orb
Richard’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.8° to 5.8° orb
Richard’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
Richard’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrinePluto5.5° to 5.8° orb
Richard’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.6° orb
Richard’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
Richard’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter7.2° to 8.0° orb
Richard’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.7° to 7.9° orb
Richard’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air 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 ℞Aries 14°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Richard may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 28°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Richard is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosGemini 14°20′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Richard is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 5°13′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Richard is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°10′ (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 trine Venus 0.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
- Eros square Mercury 0.9°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.6°
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. ☉ Sun12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Richard is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Leo · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Richard Willstätter, 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 August 13, 1872, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Richard Willstätter, 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 Q77072, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Willstätter 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.
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Quick answers about Richard Willstätter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Willstätter?
- Richard Willstätter was a Leo: born August 13, 1872, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey.
- What was Richard Willstätter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 13, 1872 birth.
- What time was Richard Willstätter 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 Willstätter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 13, 1872 birth date.
- What was Richard Willstätter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 13, 1872 birth date.
- Where was Richard Willstätter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Willstätter's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
