Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson (born March 12, 1954, Orangeburg, United States), aged 72, is an American journalist. Robinson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Eugene Robinson’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Eugene
Eugene Robinson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Eugene in the U.S.?
#943
US rank in 2025
~383,340
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
Eugene ranked 77th among boys and 2,470th among girls in 1954, the year of this birth, with 5,033 American boys and 20 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eugene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eugene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Eugene apart
Jack Kerouac (1922) and Liza Minnelli (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Eugene, according to the stars
Core essence
Eugene feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Eugene is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Eugene wants to be loved
Eugene wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Eugene creates
How Eugene 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. Eugene 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: Eugene is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Eugene is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Eugene has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Eugene's birth date. Working below.
Where Eugene sits
Six lines
Eugene’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Eugene Robinson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orangeburg 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 Orangeburg that night
Computed for 33.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Orangeburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 33.5°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 −56.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 64% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual Eugene's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · Five planets retrograde · No Earth planets
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Eugene Robinson's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 12, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Eugene Robinson was born on March 12, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Eugene Robinson's birth date, March 12, 1954, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Eugene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eugene Robinson's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Eugene Robinson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Eugene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° 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
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.3° to 1.7° orb
Eugene’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
Eugene’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
Eugene’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.0° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 1.3° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 3.7° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Eugene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 26°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 9°58′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°35′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 17°15′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°29′ (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 Uranus 0.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.8°
Eugene’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Eugene’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.6°
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More charts like Eugene’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Anthony Albanese31st prime minister of Australia
- Javier BardemSpanish actor
- Shaquille O'NealAmerican basketball player
Born in Horse years
- Helena Bonham CarterBritish actress
- Sinéad O'ConnorIrish singer-songwriter and activist
- Grace HopperAmerican computer scientist and United States Navy officer
Also born on March 12
- Jack Kerouac1922
- Liza Minnelli1946
- Gianni Agnelli1921
- Atif Aslam1983
- Stromae1985
- Mitt Romney1947
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Cooper NoriegaAmerican social media personality
- Gérard WertheimerFrench businessman
- Len BlavatnikBritish-American business magnate
Other Pisces Horse charts
- Tiny SandfordAmerican actor
- Guy KibbeeAmerican actor
- Javier GodinoSpanish actor
- Joanne WoodwardAmerican actress (born 1930)
Other Radiant Seekers
- Ales BialiatskiBelarusian activist, Nobel laureate (born 1962)
- Odysseas ElytisGreek poet and art critic
- James CroninAmerican physicist
- Daniel C. TsuiChinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Alex WrightAmerican football player (born 2000)
- SoyeonSouth Korean singer and rapper (born 1998)
- Jarrett AllenAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
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Eugene’s cards
Computed from March 12, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eugene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5407694 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eugene Robinson at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eugene Robinson.
Quick answers about Eugene Robinson’s chart
- How old is Eugene Robinson?
- Eugene Robinson is 72 years old, born March 12, 1954 in Orangeburg, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eugene Robinson?
- Eugene Robinson is a Pisces: born March 12, 1954, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Eugene Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 12, 1954 birth.
- What is Eugene Robinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eugene Robinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eugene Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eugene Robinson's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
