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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Rick
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 1919
1958
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1959, Rick came 89th among boys and 4,946th among girls, carried by 4,936 American boys and 8 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Rick apart
Rick Bragg took the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996, at 37.
The classrooms behind this chart: Jacksonville High School and Harvard University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Rick Bragg: Writers from Calhoun County, Alabama, People from Piedmont, Alabama and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing winners.
The same date carries Kevin Spacey. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Jacksonville High School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing (1996)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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. Working below.
Where Rick sits
Six lines
Rick’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 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.
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 Rick Bragg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Piedmont 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 Piedmont that night
Computed for 33.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Piedmont was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 77.6° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Piedmont at all: they sit past the −56.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 55% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
How unusual Rick's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Aries 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn1.8° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 26°16′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°30′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 1°10′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 23°30′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Rick’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Rick’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.3°
Born the same day as Rick
Kevin Spacey was born on July 26, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Piedmont, at 33.9°N, nothing below −56.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Rick
Other writers
- Nicholas Kristof1959
- Susanna Clarke1959
- Annette Gordon-Reed1958
- Bruce Norris1960
- Afua Cooper1957
- Alex Tizon1959
Born in United States
- Geoffrey ZakarianArmenian-American celebrity chef
- James SchamusAmerican filmmaker (born 1959)
- Mike PenceVice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
- Jack WagnerAmerican actor and singer (born 1959)
- Nicholas KristofAmerican journalist and political commentator
- Linda HoganAmerican television personality
More charts like Rick’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Javonte GreenAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Bogdan BogdanovićSerbian basketball player (born 1992)
- Kris MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Born in Pig years
- Melvin CalvinAmerican biochemist
- Eric F. WieschausAmerican geneticist
- Takaaki KajitaJapanese physicist and astronomer
Also born on July 26
- Carl Jung1875
- Sandra Bullock1964
- Jacinda Ardern1980
- Mick Jagger1943
- Jason Statham1967
- John Howard1939
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Charles GordoneAmerican actor and dramatist
- David RemnickAmerican journalist, writer and editor (born 1958)
- Sidney KingsleyAmerican writer
Other Leo Pig charts
- Lucille BallAmerican actress
- Sanjay DuttIndian actor and politician
- Ke Huy QuanAmerican actor and stunt choreographer
- Lil Uzi VertAmerican rapper
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Katie CouricAmerican journalist, presenter, producer, and author
- CherylBritish singer, dancer, and television presenter
- Chace CrawfordAmerican actor
- Billy CrudupAmerican actor (born 1968)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- John FennAmerican analytical chemist
- Mohamed ElBaradeiEgyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Elias James CoreyAmerican chemist
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Rick’s cards
Computed from July 26, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7331258 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rick Bragg at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Rick Bragg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rick Bragg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
