Gene Roberts
Gene Roberts (born June 15, 1932, Pikeville, United States), aged 94, is an American journalist. Roberts's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, George Polk Award and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.
Gene Roberts’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Gene
Gene Roberts’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Gene in the U.S.?
#2238
US rank in 2025
~133,874
Americans share it since 1880
1937
its peak year
In 1932, 2,952 American boys and 117 girls were registered Gene — 64th among boys and 608th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gene’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) 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
Gene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Gene apart
The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award came in 1989, when Gene Roberts was 57.
Gene Roberts was taught at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mars Hill University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Mars Hill University alumni, People from Wayne County, North Carolina and UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumni.
Xi Jinping (1953) and Mohamed Salah (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mars Hill University and Harvard University
- Awards
- George Polk Award (2009), Pulitzer Prize for History (2007) and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (1989)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Gene, according to the stars
Core essence
Gene is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Gene needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Gene feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Gene needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Gene wants to be loved
Gene 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. Gene gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Gene creates
How Gene 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. Gene 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: Gene is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Gene 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Gene 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 Gene's birth date. Working below.
Where Gene sits
Six lines
Gene’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Gene Roberts
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pikeville 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 Pikeville that night
Computed for 35.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Pikeville at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.0° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Pikeville sits at 35.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Pikeville at all: they sit past the −54.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Gene's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · Venus retrograde
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Gene Roberts's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 15, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Gene Roberts was born on June 15, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Gene Roberts's birth date, June 15, 1932, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Gene’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gene Roberts' date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Gene Roberts 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.
Gene’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Scorpio 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
stableSunsextileUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb
Gene’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto1.7° orb
Gene’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.3° to 3.5° orb
Gene’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.0° to 6.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.6° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.9° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 3.3° to 18.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Gene’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 25°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 24°35′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 19°19′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 25°57′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 4°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mars 0.6°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.9°
Gene’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Gene’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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.5°
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Gene’s cards
Computed from June 15, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5531414 (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 Earl McDonald, NARA Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gene Roberts at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gene Roberts.
Quick answers about Gene Roberts’s chart
- How old is Gene Roberts?
- Gene Roberts is 94 years old, born June 15, 1932 in Pikeville, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gene Roberts?
- Gene Roberts is a Gemini: born June 15, 1932, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Gene Roberts's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 15, 1932 birth.
- What is Gene Roberts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gene Roberts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gene Roberts's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gene Roberts's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
