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Richard Shepherd is a politician (United Kingdom).
Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (6 December 1942 – 19 February 2022) was a British politician who was Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills from 1979 to 2015. A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister John Major's legislation on the European Union. Shepherd was also a libertarian Conservative, and had a three line whip imposed against him by Margaret Thatcher when he introduced an amendment to loosen the Official Secrets Act 1911.
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| Born | 6 December 1942 |
| Profession | politician |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Educated at | London School of Economics and Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Libra |
| Nakshatra | Vishakha (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Scorpio |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Scorpio |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 385 politicians with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 32 of them (8%) have the Moon in Libra, like Richard Shepherd, and 7 (2%) share the Vishakha Nakshatra — the #26 most common Moon Nakshatra among politicians, where Uttara Bhadrapada leads with 25 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Richard Shepherd was born on 6 December 1942. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Richard Shepherd's Moon sign (Rashi) is Libra and the Nakshatra is Vishakha, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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