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, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Richard
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 name records start in 1880, 8 years after this birth. In that first year Richard ranked 23rd, with 728 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
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
The record
What sets Richard apart
The Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal came in 1914, when Richard Willstätter was 42.
The schooling ran through Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Muralto Cemetery as the resting place.
Richard Willstätter was married Sophie Leser and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Richard Willstätter under Scientists from Karlsruhe, Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Switzerland and Emigrants from Nazi Germany to Switzerland.
Sebastian Stan (1982) and Domenico Dolce (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1915), Willard Gibbs Award (1933) and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1925)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Muralto Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany and Weimar Republic
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 68
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. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Richard Willstätter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Karlsruhe on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Karlsruhe that night
Computed for 49.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Karlsruhe was Eltanin, in Draco, 86.3° up.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 49.0°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −41.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Karlsruhe on any night.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon up and 67% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Karlsruhe, Germany
The death is recorded at Muralto, Locarno Subdistrict in 1942.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Willstätter: 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
4-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · No Air planets
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSuntrineNeptune4.8° to 5.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.5° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter7.2° to 8.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.7° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 28°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 14°20′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 5°13′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Richard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Richard’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Richard’s cards
Computed from August 13, 1872. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q77072 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Willstätter.
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.
- 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 was Richard Willstätter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Willstätter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
