Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton (born September 13, 1960, Concord, United States), aged 66, is an American artist. Eggleton's honours include Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Hardcover.
Bob Eggleton’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Bob
Bob Eggleton’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Bob in the U.S.?
#9845
US rank in 2025
~93,308
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Bob ranked 131st in 1960, the year of this birth, with 2,719 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bob’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on B (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · 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 1960, 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 Bob apart
Bob Eggleton took the Jack Gaughan Award in 1988, at 28.
Wikipedia's editors put Bob Eggleton under American role-playing game artists, Space artists and Hugo Award-winning artists.
The same date carries Kevin Carter. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2001), Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1999) and Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist (2001)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Bob, according to the stars
Core essence
Bob notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Bob is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Bob wants to be loved
Bob wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Bob gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Bob creates
How Bob makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Bob builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Bob is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Bob 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Bob scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Bob's birth date. Working below.
Where Bob sits
Six lines
Bob’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Bob Eggleton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Concord 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 Concord that night
Computed for 42.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Concord was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 87.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 40% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual Bob's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Bob Eggleton's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Bob Eggleton was born on September 13, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Bob Eggleton's birth date, September 13, 1960, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Bob’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bob Eggleton's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bob Eggleton combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Bob’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Bob’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.9° to 2.1° orb
Bob’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.1° to 1.6° orb
Bob’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.5° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.9° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Bob’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°24′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 0°28′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°15′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.9°
- Eros square Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.5°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.8°
Bob’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bob’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn 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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.4°
Born the same day as Bob
Kevin Carter was born on September 13, 1960 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Concord sits at 42.5°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rat years
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jordan ClarksonAmerican-Filipino basketball player (born 1992)
- Kyle FilipowskiAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
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Other Virgo Rat charts
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Other Evergreen Healers
- Georg WittigGerman chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
- Richard SmalleyAmerican chemist
- Elias CanettiBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
- John William StruttEnglish physicist
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Mindy KalingAmerican actress, writer, and comedian
- Melissa RauchAmerican actress, model, and comedian
- Ross LynchAmerican actor and singer
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Bob’s cards
Computed from September 13, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q750545 (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 Peter & Joyce Grace from Simi Valley, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bob Eggleton at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bob Eggleton.
Quick answers about Bob Eggleton’s chart
- How old is Bob Eggleton?
- Bob Eggleton is 66 years old, born September 13, 1960 in Concord, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bob Eggleton?
- Bob Eggleton is a Virgo: born September 13, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Bob Eggleton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1960 birth.
- What is Bob Eggleton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bob Eggleton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bob Eggleton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bob Eggleton's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
