Robert Benton
Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932, Dallas, United States; died 2025), was an American screenwriter and film director. Benton's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
Robert Benton’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Benton’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
Robert ranked 1st among boys and 353rd among girls in 1932, the year of this birth, with 59,268 American boys and 326 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
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
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Blush · Soft pink
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 Robert apart
Robert Benton took the Edgar Awards in 1978, at 46.
Columbia University and University of Texas at Austin shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Robert Benton under Silver Bear for Best Director winners, Screenwriters from Texas and People from Waxahachie, Texas.
The same date carries Rainer Weiss. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Columbia University and University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (1980), Academy Award for Best Director (1980) and Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (1985)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Robert is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Robert openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Robert creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert 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 8 is the powerhouse. Robert 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Robert fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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.
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 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 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 Robert Benton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dallas 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 Dallas that night
Computed for 32.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Dallas at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 32.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dallas at all: they sit past the −57.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Dallas, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2025.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Benton: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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 →Robert Benton at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Robert Benton's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Robert Benton was born on September 29, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Robert Benton's birth date, September 29, 1932, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Benton's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Benton combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 7° Virgo or Libra 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.7° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars0.7° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileMars0.8° to 1.2° orb
stableUranussquarePluto1.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.9° to 7.5° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 28°19′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°41′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 21°23′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 5°15′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.3°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.4°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, 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-square Venus 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
Born the same day as Robert
Rainer Weiss was born on September 29, 1932 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Dallas sits at 32.8°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Robert’s cards
Computed from September 29, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q59085 (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.
The same Robert Benton 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 Robert Benton.
Quick answers about Robert Benton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Benton?
- Robert Benton was a Libra: born September 29, 1932, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Benton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1932 birth.
- What was Robert Benton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Benton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Benton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Benton's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
