Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959, Piedmont, United States), aged 67, is an American writer, journalist. Bragg's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors.
Rick Bragg’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Rick Bragg’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Rick in the U.S.?
#3077
US rank in 2025
~81,964
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Rick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Rick, according to the stars
Core essence
Rick is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Rick 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Rick runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Rick needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Rick wants to be loved
Rick wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Rick and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Rick creates
How Rick makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Rick creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Rick is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Rick 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Rick channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Rick's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Rick sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Piedmont on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Rick Bragg's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 26, 1959, 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.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Rick Bragg was born on July 26, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Rick Bragg's birth date, July 26, 1959, 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 Rick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rick Bragg's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury 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.
- Rick Bragg combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Rick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Rick Bragg, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Aries 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.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Rick’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.7° to 1.3° orb
Rick’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.8° to 1.7° orb
Rick’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.2° orb
Rick’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Rick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.8° to 2.5° orb
Rick’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Rick’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.1° orb
Rick’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
Rick’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.4° orb
Rick’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.3° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Rick’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 ℞Aquarius 26°16′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Rick making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°30′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Rick is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 1°10′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Rick is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 23°30′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Rick is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Rick is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros square Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.3°
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°).
Rick’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Rick 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 Rick’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, 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 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rick Bragg, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Rick
Kevin Spacey was born on July 26, 1959 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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Rick’s cards
Every card is computed from July 26, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Rick Bragg, 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
Rick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7331258, 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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rick Bragg at Wikipedia 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rick Bragg.
Quick answers about Rick Bragg’s chart
- How old is Rick Bragg?
- Rick Bragg is 67 years old, born July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rick Bragg?
- Rick Bragg is a Leo: born July 26, 1959, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Rick Bragg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 26, 1959 birth.
- What time was Rick Bragg 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 is Rick Bragg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 26, 1959 birth date.
- What is Rick Bragg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 26, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Rick Bragg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rick Bragg's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
