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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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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 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
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Rick Sternbach, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Leo 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.
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
Rick’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.9° orb
Rick’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars3.0° to 3.2° orb
Rick’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
Rick’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.9° orb
Rick’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareSaturn4.7° to 5.3° orb
Rick’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
Rick’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Rick’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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 ℞Sagittarius 28°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Rick building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresPisces 16°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Rick is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 7°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Rick is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Rick needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Rick guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Rick is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 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 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-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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rick Sternbach, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Rick
Geoffrey Rush was born on July 6, 1951 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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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Rick’s cards
Every card is computed from July 6, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Rick Sternbach, 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 Q2151632, 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.
The same Rick Sternbach at Wikipedia, ricksternbach.com and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- 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 time was Rick Sternbach 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 Sternbach's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 6, 1951 birth date.
- What is Rick Sternbach's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 6, 1951 birth date.
- 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.
