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Kenneth Roberts

Kenneth Roberts (born December 8, 1885, Kennebunkport, United States; died 1957), was an American writer. Roberts is best remembered for Northwest Passage. Roberts's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.

Kenneth Roberts’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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Kenneth Roberts’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.

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

#294

US rank in 2025

~1,289,312

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

In 1885, 41 American boys were registered Kenneth — 261st on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kenneth’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Kenneth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

33 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest

The record

What sets Kenneth apart

Jim Morrison (1943) and Nicki Minaj (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Kenneth, according to the stars

Core essence

Kenneth is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Kenneth 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Kenneth is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Kenneth needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Kenneth wants to be loved

Kenneth 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 Kenneth be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Kenneth creates

How Kenneth 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. Kenneth 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: Kenneth is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Kenneth is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Kenneth channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Kenneth's birth date. Working below.

Where Kenneth sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kenneth

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kenneth

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

PrivateExpressive
Kenneth

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kenneth

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

PracticalVisionary
Kenneth

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kenneth

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kenneth Roberts

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kennebunkport on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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The sky over Kennebunkport that night

Computed for 43.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kennebunkport was Almach, in Andromeda, 83.7° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Kennebunkport sits at 43.4°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 Kennebunkport at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 52° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Kenneth's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Jupiter · 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.

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Kenneth Roberts's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1885, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Wood Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Kenneth Roberts was born on December 8, 1885, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 33

Lifts the room by example.

Kenneth Roberts's birth date, December 8, 1885, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 33 means →

What stands out in Kenneth’s chart

Kenneth’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.8° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.8° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.2° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 2.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 16°50′☉16°Moon in Capricorn · 10°55′☽10°Mercury in Capricorn · 5°17′☿5°Venus in Aquarius · 4°06′♀4°Mars in Virgo · 13°59′♂13°Jupiter in Libra · 3°17′♃3°Saturn in Cancer · 6°20′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Libra · 7°10′♅7°Neptune in Taurus · 23°34′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Gemini · 1°51′ · retrograde♇℞1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.4° to 1.3° orb

    Kenneth’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Kenneth’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb

    Kenneth’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto1.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars2.5° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn3.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.9° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 13°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°25′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 27°45′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 3°21′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°11′ (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 trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.9°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 3.0°

Kenneth’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Kenneth’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn 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 1.2°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 2.2°

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Kenneth’s cards

Computed from December 8, 1885. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

33 · Lightkeeper

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kenneth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q346729 (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 AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Kenneth Roberts’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kenneth Roberts?
Kenneth Roberts was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1885, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Kenneth Roberts's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1885 birth.
What was Kenneth Roberts's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
What was Kenneth Roberts's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Kenneth Roberts's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Kenneth Roberts's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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