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Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan (born March 22, 1868, Morrison, United States; died 1953), was an American physicist. Millikan's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Edison Medal and Hughes Medal.

Robert Andrews Millikan’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Robert Andrews Millikan’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#92

US rank in 2025

~4,869,849

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

US name records start in 1880, 12 years after this birth. In that first year Robert ranked 10th among boys and 515th among girls, with 2,415 American boys and 12 girls registered.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Robert’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

9

Soul Urge · meaning

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Robert apart

The Comstock Prize in Physics came in 1913, when Robert Andrews Millikan was 45.

Study took Robert Andrews Millikan to Oberlin College and Maquoketa Community High School.

The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.

Robert Andrews Millikan was married Greta Millikan and raised 3 children.

Wikipedia files Robert Andrews Millikan under Naval Consulting Board, ASME Medal recipients and IEEE Edison Medal recipients.

Reese Witherspoon (1976) and William Shatner (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Oberlin College, Maquoketa Community High School and University of Chicago
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1923), Hughes Medal (1923) and Edison Medal (1922)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Buried at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
105

What the chart says

Robert, according to the stars

Core essence

Robert leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Robert is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Robert is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Robert needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Robert wants to be loved

Robert wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Robert is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Robert creates

How Robert 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. Robert 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: Robert is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Robert is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Robert slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Robert's birth date. Working below.

Where Robert sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Robert

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

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

PrivateExpressive
Robert

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

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

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

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

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

Robert’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 84.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 21.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Morrison that night

Computed for 41.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Morrison at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 5.9° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Morrison sits at 41.8°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 Morrison at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Morrison, United States

The death is recorded at San Marino, Los Angeles County in 1953.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Andrews Millikan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · No Air 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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The quick version

Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

Robert Andrews Millikan's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1868, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Robert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Robert Andrews Millikan's birth date, March 22, 1868, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Robert’s chart

Robert’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.6° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.1° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.2° orbSun in Aries · 2°25′☉2°Moon in Pisces · 14°44′☽14°Mercury in Pisces · 9°57′☿9°Venus in Taurus · 13°08′♀13°Mars in Pisces · 14°08′♂14°Jupiter in Pisces · 23°19′♃23°Saturn in Sagittarius · 5°39′ · retrograde♄℞5°Uranus in Cancer · 8°48′♅8°Neptune in Aries · 14°17′♆14°Pluto in Taurus · 14°39′♇14°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.3° orb

    Robert’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.1° to 0.9° orb

    Robert’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.8° to 1.2° orb

    Robert’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.7° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.9° to 5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 26°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 13°58′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 23°04′ (moves 0.50° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 21°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 1°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres square Pluto 0.7°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.8°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from March 22, 1868. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q130975 (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 Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Andrews Millikan.

Quick answers about Robert Andrews Millikan’s chart

What zodiac sign was Robert Andrews Millikan?
Robert Andrews Millikan was an Aries: born March 22, 1868, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Robert Andrews Millikan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1868 birth.
What was Robert Andrews Millikan's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Robert Andrews Millikan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Robert Andrews Millikan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Robert Andrews Millikan's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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