Robert Bly
Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926, Lac qui Parle County, United States; died 2021), was an American poet, author, and activist. Bly is best remembered for Iron John: A Book About Men. Bly's honours include National Book Award, Fulbright Scholarship and Robert Frost Medal.
Robert Bly’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Bly’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire 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
Of the names registered in 1926, Robert came 1st among boys and 349th among girls, carried by 61,130 American boys and 369 girls.
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). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
The record
What sets Robert apart
Finn Wolfhard (2002) and Eddie Vedder (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Robert is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Robert needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Robert you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Robert creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Robert 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 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Bly
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lac qui Parle County 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 Lac qui Parle County that night
Computed for 45.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Lac qui Parle County at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Perseus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.0°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 78% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Robert Bly's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Robert Bly was born on December 23, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Robert Bly's birth date, December 23, 1926, 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 Bly's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Robert Bly combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Leo 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
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.0° to 7.2° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
Robert’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineMars2.2° to 3.3° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.7° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.5° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.7° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 2.2° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°38′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°02′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°59′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 8°46′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 22°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.7°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 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.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
More people like Robert
Other writers
- Jimmy Breslin1928
- Maxine Kumin1925
- Elie Wiesel1928
- William Styron1925
- Anita Brookner1928
- Donald Justice1925
Born in United States
- William DanielsAmerican actor (born 1927)
- Ben Roy MottelsonDanish-American nuclear physicist
- Anthony LewisAmerican journalist
- Harry Dean StantonAmerican actor
- John KanderAmerican musical theatre composer
- Irwin RoseAmerican biologist
More charts like Robert’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Cedric IttenSwiss association football player
- Luis ChávezMexican association football player
- Lisandro MartínezArgentine association football player
Born in Tiger years
- James Truslow AdamsAmerican writer and historian
- Allan NevinsAmerican historian and journalist
- David BarstowAmerican journalist
Also born on December 23
- Finn Wolfhard2002
- Eddie Vedder1964
- Madam C. J. Walker1867
- Holly Madison1979
- Justin Olam1993
- Corey Haim1971
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Collin SextonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Brook LopezAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
- Jabari Smith Jr.American basketball player (born 2003)
Other Capricorn Tiger charts
- Cynthia ErivoBritish actress and singer-songwriter
- Hunter SchaferAmerican actress, model, and LGBTQ activist
- Damiano DavidItalian singer-songwriter
- Carolina HerreraVenezuelan-American fashion designer
Other Radiant Strategists
- Melissa PetermanAmerican actress
- Kristoffer PolahaAmerican actor
- Lauren ParsekianAmerican director and actress
- Shep RoseAmerican television personality (born 1979)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Alison DoodyIrish actress and model
- Jennifer LienAmerican actress
- Ethan SupleeAmerican actor
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Robert’s cards
Computed from December 23, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q472507 (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 Nic McPhee, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Bly at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Bly.
Quick answers about Robert Bly’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Bly?
- Robert Bly was a Capricorn: born December 23, 1926, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Bly's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1926 birth.
- What was Robert Bly's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Bly's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Bly's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Bly's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
