Robert Bruce Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield (born July 15, 1921, Fort Worth, United States; died 2006), was an American biochemist. Merrifield's honours include Canada Gairdner International Award, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
Robert Bruce Merrifield’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Robert Bruce Merrifield’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert feels the room before entering it. The core of Robert is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Robert, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Robert like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Robert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Robert does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Robert sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Robert Bruce Merrifield's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 15, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Robert Bruce Merrifield was born on July 15, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Robert Bruce Merrifield's birth date, July 15, 1921, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Bruce Merrifield's date-only chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Bruce Merrifield combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Bruce Merrifield, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableUranustrinePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Robert’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareUranus1.2° to 2.2° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.3° to 2.6° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.4° to 3.0° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.7° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.6° to 4.0° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.7° to 5.0° orb
Robert’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb
Robert’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.6° to 6.6° orb
Robert’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.2° to 6.3° orb
Robert’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ ChironAries 13°59′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Robert may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 13°53′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Robert is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosPisces 27°23′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Robert is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 12°48′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Robert is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Robert at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.0°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Robert is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Bruce Merrifield, 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 July 15, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Bruce Merrifield, 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 Q224153, 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 Dann Kristoff, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Bruce Merrifield at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Robert Bruce Merrifield’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Bruce Merrifield?
- Robert Bruce Merrifield was a Cancer: born July 15, 1921, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- What was Robert Bruce Merrifield's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 15, 1921 birth.
- What time was Robert Bruce Merrifield 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 Bruce Merrifield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 15, 1921 birth date.
- What was Robert Bruce Merrifield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 15, 1921 birth date.
- Where was Robert Bruce Merrifield's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Bruce Merrifield's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Pluto). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
