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Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (born December 12, 1893, Bucharest, Romania; died 1973), was a Romanian-American actor. Robinson's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Honorary Award and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

Edward G. Robinson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Edward G. Robinson’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Edward in the U.S.?

#224

US rank in 2025

~1,308,955

Americans share it since 1880

1924

its peak year

Edward ranked 9th among boys and 972nd among girls in 1893, the year of this birth, with 2,309 American boys and 10 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Edward’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Edward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Edward apart

Edward G. Robinson took the Academy Honorary Award in 1973, at 80.

The classrooms behind this chart: Townsend Harris High School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

The working life starts in 1913, at 20.

Cause of death is recorded as bladder cancer; the grave is at Beth El Cemetery.

The family line: married Gladys Lloyd Robinson.

Wikipedia's editors put Edward G. Robinson under Jewish American anti-racism activists, Deaths from bladder cancer in California and Hollywood blacklist.

Frank Sinatra (1915) and Jennifer Connelly (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Townsend Harris High School, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and City College of New York
Awards
Academy Honorary Award (1973)
Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
Working from
1913
Cause of death
bladder cancer
Buried at
Beth El Cemetery
Citizenship
United States and Kingdom of Romania
Languages
English and Romanian
Wikipedia editions
56

What the chart says

Edward, according to the stars

Core essence

Edward is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Edward is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Edward wants to be loved

Edward wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Edward be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Edward creates

How Edward makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Edward 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: Edward is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Edward 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Edward runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Edward's birth date. Working below.

Where Edward sits

Six lines

Edward’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Edward

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Edward

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Edward

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Edward

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Edward

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Edward

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 Edward G. Robinson

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

Computed for 44.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bucharest was Almach, in Andromeda, 84.0° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 44.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 17% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Bucharest, Romania

The death is recorded at Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1973.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Edward G. Robinson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Edward's chart is

Chart pattern score

12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Edward G. Robinson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 12, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Edward G. Robinson was born on December 12, 1893, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Edward G. Robinson's birth date, December 12, 1893, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Edward’s chart

Edward’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.8° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.3° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.1° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.3° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.6° orbSun in Sagittarius · 20°40′☉20°Moon in Aquarius · 5°20′☽5°Mercury in Scorpio · 29°37′☿29°Venus in Aquarius · 7°50′♀7°Mars in Scorpio · 16°44′♂16°Jupiter in Taurus · 23°21′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Libra · 22°52′♄22°Uranus in Scorpio · 13°23′♅13°Neptune in Gemini · 11°55′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Gemini · 9°36′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 8.0° orb

    Edward’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrinePluto1.3° to 2.3° orb

    Edward’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn1.7° to 2.7° orb

    Edward’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto2.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus5.1° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.8° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.2° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.6° to 12.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 20°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 18°27′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 16°54′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 27°50′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 28°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Sun 0.1°
  • Eros trine Mars 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.2°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.8°

Edward’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Edward’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.

  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°

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Edward’s cards

Computed from December 12, 1893. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83812 (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.

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The same Edward G. Robinson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

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Quick answers about Edward G. Robinson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Edward G. Robinson?
Edward G. Robinson was a Sagittarius: born December 12, 1893, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Edward G. Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 12, 1893 birth.
How tall was Edward G. Robinson?
Edward G. Robinson was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Edward G. Robinson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Edward G. Robinson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Edward G. Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Edward G. Robinson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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