Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward (born March 26, 1943, Geneva, United States), aged 83, is an American investigative journalist (born 1943). Woodward is best known for All the President's Men. Woodward's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and George Polk Award.
Bob Woodward’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Bob
Bob Woodward’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
In 1943, 2,275 American boys and 8 girls were registered Bob — 110th among boys and 3,525th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on B (2). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as 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
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Bob apart
Richard Dawkins (1941) and Larry Page (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Bob is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Bob wants to be loved
Bob wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Bob is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Bob creates
How Bob makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Bob creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Bob is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Bob is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Bob leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Bob goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Woodward
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Geneva 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 Geneva that night
Computed for 41.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Geneva at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 8.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Geneva sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Geneva at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 72% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
How unusual Bob's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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.
Score your own chart →Bob Woodward at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Bob Woodward's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Bob Woodward was born on March 26, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Bob Woodward's birth date, March 26, 1943, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Bob’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bob Woodward's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Bob Woodward combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Bob’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Bob’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquarePluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
Bob’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Bob’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.0° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.6° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 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 ℞Leo 23°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 26°01′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 15°46′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Eros square Mars 2.1°
Bob’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Bob’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 2.0°
More people like Bob
Other writers
- Joe Mayhew1942
- Louise Glück1943
- Jack Miles1942
- Pat Barker1943
- Terry Bisson1942
- Newt Gingrich1943
Born in United States
- Holland TaylorAmerican actress
- Christopher WalkenAmerican actor
- James GoodnightAmerican businessman
- Michael BennettAmerican choreographer
- Doris Kearns GoodwinAmerican biographer and historian (born 1943)
- Robert LefkowitzAmerican physician and biochemist
More charts like Bob’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Sarah PinskerAmerican science fiction author
- Mstislav RostropovichSoviet and Russian cellist and conductor
- Herbie HancockAmerican jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)
Born in Goat years
- Kurt CobainAmerican rock musician
- Alice MunroCanadian writer
- Chris PrattAmerican actor
Also born on March 26
- Richard Dawkins1941
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
- Jonathan Groff1985
- Guccio Gucci1881
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Anthony BoucherAmerican author, critic, and editor
- Lena HorneAmerican singer, actress, dancer and activist
- Shirley TempleAmerican actress and diplomat
Other Aries Goat charts
- Robert LefkowitzAmerican physician and biochemist
- Nikolaas TinbergenDutch Zoologist, ethologist
- Burton RichterAmerican physicist
- Joseph MurrayUS surgeon
Other Tidal Strategists
- Angelique KidjoBeninese-French world music singer
- Denise RichardsAmerican actress
- Samantha StosurAustralian tennis player
- Khloé KardashianAmerican media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Bozoma Saint Johnbusinesswoman and marketing executive
- Caroline WozniackiDanish tennis player
- Kate WalshAmerican actress
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Bob’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312782 (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 Bob Woodward, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bob Woodward at Wikipedia, bobwoodward.com, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Woodward.
Quick answers about Bob Woodward’s chart
- How old is Bob Woodward?
- Bob Woodward is 83 years old, born March 26, 1943 in Geneva, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bob Woodward?
- Bob Woodward is an Aries: born March 26, 1943, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Bob Woodward's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1943 birth.
- What is Bob Woodward's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bob Woodward's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bob Woodward's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bob Woodward's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
