Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch (born April 5, 1917, Chicago, United States; died 1994), was an American fiction writer. Bloch is best remembered for Psycho. Bloch's honours include Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Inkpot Award and World Horror Convention Grand Master Award.
Robert Bloch’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Robert Bloch’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Robert in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~4,869,849
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
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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.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Robert 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Robert gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 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.
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If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Robert Bloch's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Robert Bloch was born on April 5, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Robert Bloch's birth date, April 5, 1917, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Bloch's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Bloch combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Bloch, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto5.0° to 5.7° orb
Robert’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.5° orb
Robert’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineNeptune5.3° to 6.0° orb
Robert’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.5° to 7.7° orb
Robert’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.5° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 1.8° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMercuryorb from 7.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 7.6° to 19.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Robert’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Robert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 8°57′ (moves 0.11° 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 Robert caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 0°37′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Robert attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 0°33′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Robert is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Robert is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.6°
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°).
Robert’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. ♂ Mars12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Robert is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Robert’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 Aries · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
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 semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Bloch, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from April 5, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Bloch, 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
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q355879, 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 Will Hart, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Bloch at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Robert Bloch.
Quick answers about Robert Bloch’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Bloch?
- Robert Bloch was an Aries: born April 5, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Robert Bloch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1917 birth.
- What time was Robert Bloch 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 Robert Bloch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 5, 1917 birth date.
- What was Robert Bloch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 5, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Robert Bloch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Bloch's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
