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Rick J. Caruso

Rick J. Caruso (born January 7, 1959, Los Angeles, United States), aged 67, is an American businessman.

Rick J. Caruso’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Rick J. Caruso’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

1

Soul Urge · independence

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on R (9) and closes on K (2).

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

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, 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 J. Caruso took the Los Angeles Police Foundation in 2013, at 54.

Training came by way of Pepperdine University School of Law and University of Southern California.

The family line: born to Henry Caruso and raised 2 children.

Jeremy Renner (1971) and Nicolas Cage (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Pepperdine University School of Law and University of Southern California
Awards
Los Angeles Police Foundation (2013) and Order of St. Gregory the Great (2017)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
9

What the chart says

Rick, according to the stars

Core essence

Rick is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Rick is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Rick is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Rick is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Rick

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rick

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Rick

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rick

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Rick

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rick

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Rick J. Caruso

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.

How unusual Rick's chart is

Chart pattern score

17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

2 planets at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Rick J. Caruso's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 7, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Rick J. Caruso was born on January 7, 1959, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Rick J. Caruso's birth date, January 7, 1959, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Rick’s chart

Rick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.2° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.7° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.2° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 5.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 16°47′☉16°Moon in Sagittarius · 28°18′☽28°Mercury in Sagittarius · 26°06′☿26°Venus in Aquarius · 0°37′♀0°Mars in Taurus · 18°39′♂18°Jupiter in Scorpio · 25°12′♃25°Saturn in Capricorn · 0°16′♄0°Uranus in Leo · 15°26′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°41′♆6°Pluto in Virgo · 3°59′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSuntrineMars1.5° to 2.3° orb

    Rick’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb

    Rick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.1° to 3.3° orb

    Rick’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.5° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.2° to 15.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussextileJupiterorb from 4.9° to 6.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 20°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 12°30′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 9°18′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 11°14′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°47′ (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 opposition Neptune 0.9°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.8°
  • Ceres square Uranus 2.9°

Rick’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Rick’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Mars 1.5°

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Rick’s cards

Computed from January 7, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7331476 (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.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rick J. Caruso.

Quick answers about Rick J. Caruso’s chart

How old is Rick J. Caruso?
Rick J. Caruso is 67 years old, born January 7, 1959 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Rick J. Caruso?
Rick J. Caruso is a Capricorn: born January 7, 1959, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Rick J. Caruso's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 7, 1959 birth.
What is Rick J. Caruso's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Rick J. Caruso's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Rick J. Caruso's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Rick J. Caruso's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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