Frank M. Robinson
Frank M. Robinson (born August 9, 1926, Chicago, United States; died 2014), was an American science fiction writer. Robinson's honours include Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Lambda Literary Award.
Frank M. Robinson’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank M. Robinson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 14,493 American boys and 93 girls named Frank in 1926: 12th among boys and 744th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Frank apart
The Hugo Award for Best Related Work came in 2000, when Frank M. Robinson was 74.
The schooling ran through Beloit College.
Wikipedia files Frank M. Robinson under Harvey Milk, LGBTQ rights activists from Illinois and Military personnel from Chicago.
Whitney Houston (1963) and Gillian Anderson (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Beloit College
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2000) and Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame (2009)
- Nominated for
- British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and Locus Award for Best Collection
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Portuguese
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Frank is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank 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. Frank gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Frank creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Frank is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Frank is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Frank is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’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 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 Frank M. Robinson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Rastaban, in Draco, 79.4° up.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Chicago 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 Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at San Francisco, California in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank M. Robinson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Frank M. Robinson's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Frank M. Robinson was born on August 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Frank M. Robinson's birth date, August 9, 1926, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank M. Robinson's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Frank M. Robinson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Leo or Virgo 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
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Frank’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.1° to 1.3° orb
Frank’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 4.5° orb
Frank’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareSaturn2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.6° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 2°10′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°15′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 4°39′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 21°35′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 2.6°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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 onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnAn 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.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.4°
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From the journal: Dragon babies: the real demographics behind the belief · Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year
Frank’s cards
Computed from August 9, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q843541 (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 unidentified / Greenleaf Publishing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frank M. Robinson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frank M. Robinson.
Quick answers about Frank M. Robinson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank M. Robinson?
- Frank M. Robinson was a Leo: born August 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Frank M. Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1926 birth.
- What was Frank M. Robinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank M. Robinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank M. Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank M. Robinson's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
