Rick Sternbach
Rick Sternbach (born July 6, 1951, Bridgeport, United States), aged 75, is a Science fiction artist. Sternbach's honours include Inkpot Award and Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.
Rick Sternbach’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Rick
Rick Sternbach’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, 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
The SSA recorded 1,896 American boys named Rick in 1951: 143rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against 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
2 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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
The Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist came in 1977, when Rick Sternbach was 26.
The schooling ran through University of Connecticut.
Wikipedia files Rick Sternbach under Artists from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Space artists and University of Connecticut alumni.
Geoffrey Rush shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- University of Connecticut
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (1990) and Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist (1977)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Rick, according to the stars
Core essence
Rick feels the room before entering it. The core of Rick is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Rick, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Rick needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Rick needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Rick wants to be loved
Rick 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 Rick openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Rick creates
How Rick makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Rick creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Rick is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Rick is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Rick 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 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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Sternbach
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bridgeport 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 Bridgeport that night
Computed for 41.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bridgeport was Izar, in Boötes, 75.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.
Bridgeport sits at 41.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bridgeport on any night.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon up and 7% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Rick's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Rick Sternbach's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Rick Sternbach was born on July 6, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Rick Sternbach's birth date, July 6, 1951, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Rick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rick Sternbach's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rick Sternbach combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Rick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Leo 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb
Rick’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.5° to 1.3° orb
Rick’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
Rick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus2.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Rick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 28°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 7°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.0°
- Eros square Uranus 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Mars 3.0°
- Ceres trine Sun 3.0°
Rick’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Rick’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
Born the same day as Rick
Geoffrey Rush was born on July 6, 1951 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 41.2°N, the sky above Bridgeport stops at −48.8° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Rick
Born in United States
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Sally RideAmerican astronaut and physicist
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Joy HarjoAmerican Poet Laureate
- Jeffrey LurieAmerican football owner, CEO, film producer
- Peter BalakianArmenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
More charts like Rick’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Edie FalcoAmerican actress
- Colton HaynesAmerican actor and model
- Melora HardinAmerican actress
Born in Rabbit years
- Edna BuchananAmerican writer
- Harold C. SchonbergAmerican writer
- Paul HorganAmerican historian
Also born on July 6
- George W. Bush1946
- Sylvester Stallone1946
- 50 Cent1975
- Eva Green1980
- Geoffrey Rush1951
- Peter Singer1946
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Wyatt OleffAmerican actor
- Shinnosuke Okagymnast
- Louis PartridgeBritish actor (born 2003)
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- Lisa RinnaAmerican actress
- Folorunso AlakijaNigerian businessperson and philanthropist
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Linda CardelliniAmerican actress (b. 1975)
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Julian Fernando Casablancas ChristiansenAmerican singer
- xQcCanadian Twitch streamer
- Bengaluru Venkata RamanIndian astrologer
- Piper RockelleAmerican adult content creator and model
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Youssef BelammariMoroccan footballer
- Ayoube AmaimouniMoroccan footballer
- Cameron HeywardAmerican football player (born 1989)
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Rick’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
2 · Diplomat☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2151632 (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.
The same Rick Sternbach at Wikipedia, ricksternbach.com and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rick Sternbach.
Quick answers about Rick Sternbach’s chart
- How old is Rick Sternbach?
- Rick Sternbach is 75 years old, born July 6, 1951 in Bridgeport, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rick Sternbach?
- Rick Sternbach is a Cancer: born July 6, 1951, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Rick Sternbach's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1951 birth.
- What is Rick Sternbach's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rick Sternbach's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rick Sternbach's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rick Sternbach's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
