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Bob Hope

Bob Hope (born May 29, 1903, Eltham, United Kingdom; died 2003), was an American entertainer. Hope's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, World Golf Hall of Fame and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Bob Hope’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

Your match with Bob

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Bob Hope’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

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) × 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

Of the names registered in 1903, Bob came 223rd, carried by 66 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bob’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

8

Soul Urge · achievement

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on B (2) and closes on B (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 6: tact against care.

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 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink

The record

What sets Bob apart

John F. Kennedy (1917) and Peter Higgs (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Bob, according to the stars

Core essence

Bob is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Bob needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Bob is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Bob needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Bob wants to be loved

Bob wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Bob gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Bob creates

How Bob 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. Bob 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: Bob 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bob channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Bob

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bob

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Bob

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bob

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Bob

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bob

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Bob Hope

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Eltham 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 Eltham that night

Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Eltham at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 12% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.

How unusual Bob's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Bob Hope at a glance

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Bob Hope's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 29, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Bob Hope was born on May 29, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Bob Hope's birth date, May 29, 1903, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Bob’s chart

Bob’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.2° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.4° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 5.3° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.4° orbSun in Gemini · 6°56′☉6°Moon in Cancer · 12°19′☽12°Mercury in Gemini · 14°31′ · retrograde☿℞14°Venus in Cancer · 18°08′♀18°Mars in Virgo · 29°43′♂29°Jupiter in Pisces · 20°08′♃20°Saturn in Aquarius · 9°15′ · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Sagittarius · 24°21′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Cancer · 2°25′♆2°Pluto in Gemini · 18°53′♇18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb

    Bob’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.5° to 2.5° orb

    Bob’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb

    Bob’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune2.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn5.1° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.3° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.5° to 15.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Bob’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 22°18′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 25°35′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 24°02′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 21°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.5°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.7°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Bob’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Neptune

Configurations in Bob’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Uranus, Pluto, JupiterAn 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.

  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.8°

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Bob’s cards

Computed from May 29, 1903. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94081 (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 NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bob Hope at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bob Hope.

Quick answers about Bob Hope’s chart

What zodiac sign was Bob Hope?
Bob Hope was a Gemini: born May 29, 1903, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Bob Hope's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 29, 1903 birth.
What was Bob Hope's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Bob Hope's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Bob Hope's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Bob Hope's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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