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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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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.
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~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Frank sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Frank M. Robinson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Frank’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb
Frank’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.0° to 5.2° orb
Frank’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° orb
Frank’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.6° orb
Frank’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.1° to 7.2° orb
Frank’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 2°10′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Frank building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°15′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Frank caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 4°39′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Frank is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 21°35′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Frank at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Frank exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Frank’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Frank is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Frank M. Robinson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Frank’s cards
Every card is computed from August 9, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Frank M. Robinson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q843541, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- 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 time was Frank M. Robinson born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Frank M. Robinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 9, 1926 birth date.
- What was Frank M. Robinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 9, 1926 birth date.
- 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.
