Richard Pryor's Birth Chart
Richard Pryor was born on December 1, 1940 in Peoria, IL. The chart has the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Capricorn. No birth time is on record for Richard Pryor, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | December 1, 1940 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Peoria, IL |
Richard Pryor's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Sagittarius: Room to Move
You are yourself on the way somewhere. Identity here is built from the horizon rather than the home, from the belief, the trip or the argument that promises to make the world larger. People experience you as generous, blunt and certain, and your honesty lands as refreshing or as tactless depending on the day. Routine makes you restless, and a conversation with no big idea in it feels like a waste of breath. Your vitality is bound up with having room to move and something worth believing in.
Moon in Capricorn: Competence as Comfort
You feel safest when you are capable, and comfort comes from a job done well, a bill paid, a plan that holds. Feelings are private and processed slowly, often through work rather than conversation, and you can seem cool to people who want an immediate reaction. Early life may have asked you to be older than you were, and you carry that reserve into how you ask for care, which is rarely and sideways. You show love by showing up, on time, every time, long after louder people have left.
No birth time is on record for Richard Pryor, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Richard Pryor's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 8°55′ to 9°56′ |
| Moon | Capricorn | 4°14′ to 18°06′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 19°02′ to 20°14′ |
| Venus | Scorpio | 5°48′ to 7°02′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 6°57′ to 7°36′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Taurus | 7°10′ to 7°05′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Taurus | 9°15′ to 9°11′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Taurus | 23°32′ to 23°29′ |
| Neptune | Virgo | 27°28′ to 27°29′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 4°11′ to 4°11′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Libra | 9°08′ to 8°59′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Leo | 1°13′ to 1°12′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 2, Earth 5, Air 0, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 1, Fixed 7, Mutable 2. No planet falls in a Air sign.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
A fixed emphasis
A fixed emphasis makes you steady and determined: you sustain, persist, and hold your ground, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.
The tightest aspects in Richard Pryor's chart
- Mars opposite Jupiter, orb 0°32′
- Sun sextile North Node, orb 0°57′
- Venus conjunct Mars, orb 1°08′
- Venus opposite Jupiter, orb 1°22′
- Jupiter conjunct Saturn, orb 2°06′
- Mars opposite Saturn, orb 2°18′
- Venus square Pluto, orb 2°51′
- Jupiter square Pluto, orb 2°59′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars opposite Jupiter: Act Versus Expand
One side of you wants to strike now and settle it. The other wants to step back, see the whole map, ask what it means. Ignore either and something goes wrong: pure impulse with no perspective, or endless philosophy with nobody acting. This works when both stay themselves and take turns rather than being blurred into one attitude.
Sun sextile North Node: Shine Toward Growth
There's a version of you that grows fastest while doing the thing you enjoy, and this pairing is why. Your vitality and your growth direction cooperate without merging: play, creative work, and being seen actually point you where you're headed, though neither side drags the other along. In people who take up the invitation it looks obvious. In people who don't, it stays quiet potential.
Venus conjunct Mars: Desire Fused Together
What you want and what you go get are the same reflex here. Attraction turns into action almost instantly, so pursuit, spending, flirting and creating all fire from one hot button. It makes you magnetic and quick in anything physical or aesthetic, and it also means restraint has no natural pause built into it.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Richard Pryor's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.