Bob Peterson
Bob Peterson (born January 18, 1961, Wooster, United States), aged 65, is an American actor, writer, and director.
Bob Peterson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Bob
Bob Peterson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 141st among boys and 6,651st among girls in 1961, the year of this birth, with 2,504 American boys and 5 girls 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
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Bob apart
Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) 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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Bob is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Bob wants to be loved
Bob 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 Bob, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Bob creates
How Bob makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Bob creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 9 is the humanitarian. Bob is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Bob does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Peterson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wooster 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 Wooster that night
Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Wooster at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wooster on any night.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Bob's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Bob Peterson's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 18, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Bob Peterson was born on January 18, 1961, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Bob Peterson's birth date, January 18, 1961, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Bob’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bob Peterson's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Bob Peterson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Bob’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableVenussextileJupiter2.8° to 3.6° orb
Bob’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.3° to 4.4° orb
Bob’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
Bob’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 7.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto6.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.6° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 5.4° to 20.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 6.2° to 21.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMercuryorb from 7.9° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Bob’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 29°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 8°44′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 24°02′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°33′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°26′ (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 opposition Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.4°
- Eros square Saturn 2.4°
Bob’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Bob’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
More people like Bob
Other screenwriters
- Steven Moffat1961
- Ian McDonald1960
- Peter Jackson1961
- Susanne Bier1960
- Dylan McDermott1961
- Robert J. Sawyer1960
Born in United States
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More charts like Bob’s
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- Liz BalmasedaCuban-American writer and journalist
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on January 18
- Kevin Costner1955
- Paul Keating1944
- Jason Segel1980
- Jay Chou1979
- Jonathan Davis1971
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Robert J. Perabusinessperson
- Andrew BealAmerican banker, businessman, investor, and amateur mathematician
- James DysonBritish inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)
Other Capricorn Rat charts
- Joe FlaccoAmerican football player (born 1985)
- Zayne AndersonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Lamar JacksonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- SanaJapanese singer
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Andrew StantonAmerican animator, film director and screenwriter (born 1965)
- Andrew NiccolNew Zealand screenwriter, producer and film director
- Joan SutherlandAustralian soprano
- Benny GoodmanAmerican jazz clarinetist and bandleader
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jaylon TysonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Tari EasonAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Gradey DickAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
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Bob’s cards
Computed from January 18, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q740682 (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 Boungawa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bob Peterson at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bob Peterson.
Quick answers about Bob Peterson’s chart
- How old is Bob Peterson?
- Bob Peterson is 65 years old, born January 18, 1961 in Wooster, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bob Peterson?
- Bob Peterson is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1961, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Bob Peterson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1961 birth.
- What is Bob Peterson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bob Peterson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bob Peterson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bob Peterson's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
