Theodore William Richards
Theodore William Richards (born January 31, 1868, Germantown, United States; died 1928), was an United States chemist. Richards's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Davy Medal and Willard Gibbs Award.
Theodore William Richards’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Theodore
Theodore William Richards’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Theodore in the U.S.?
#4
US rank in 2025
~318,175
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
The earliest American count for Theodore is 1880, 12 years on: 70th, 232 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Theodore’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Theodore’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Theodore apart
The Davy Medal came in 1910, when Theodore William Richards was 42.
Theodore William Richards was taught at Haverford College and Harvard University.
Theodore William Richards lies at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
On the family side, Theodore William Richards was born to Anna Matlack Richards and William Trost Richards.
On Wikipedia the categories read History of chemistry, Scientists from Philadelphia and Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Haverford College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1914), Davy Medal (1910) and Willard Gibbs Award (1912)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Buried at
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
Theodore, according to the stars
Core essence
Theodore is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Theodore is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Theodore wants to be loved
Theodore wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Theodore, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Theodore creates
How Theodore makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Theodore creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Theodore is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Theodore is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Theodore leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Theodore goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Theodore's birth date. Working below.
Where Theodore sits
Six lines
Theodore’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Theodore William Richards
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Germantown 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 Germantown that night
Computed for 40.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Germantown at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.6° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Germantown sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Germantown on any night.
The Moon, 43% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Germantown, United States
The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 1928.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Theodore William Richards: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Theodore's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Aquarius
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Theodore William Richards's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1868, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Theodore William Richards was born on January 31, 1868, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Theodore William Richards's birth date, January 31, 1868, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Theodore’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Theodore William Richards' date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Theodore William Richards combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Theodore’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMarssextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Theodore’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.2° to 1.2° orb
Theodore’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.0° to 2.0° orb
Theodore’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto1.6° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineUranus1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextilePluto1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.1° to 4.8° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Theodore’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 23°34′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°03′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°49′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 2°57′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 25°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.2°
Theodore’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Theodore’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Theodore’s cards
Computed from January 31, 1868. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Theodore’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189465 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Theodore William Richards at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Theodore William Richards.
Quick answers about Theodore William Richards’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Theodore William Richards?
- Theodore William Richards was an Aquarius: born January 31, 1868, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Theodore William Richards's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1868 birth.
- What was Theodore William Richards's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Theodore William Richards's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Theodore William Richards's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Theodore William Richards's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
