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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robert
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
Of the names registered in 1921, Robert came 2nd among boys and 439th among girls, carried by 52,779 American boys and 244 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
2
Soul Urge · closeness
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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
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
The record
What sets Robert apart
Mario Kempes (1954) and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943) 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 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. Working below.
Where Robert sits
Six lines
Robert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Bruce Merrifield
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth that night
Computed for 32.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Fort Worth at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 7.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 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, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Fort Worth at all: they sit past the −57.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 86% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Uranus · 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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineUranus2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.7° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.6° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.7° to 5.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.6° to 6.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.2° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 13°59′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 13°53′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 27°23′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 12°48′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Robert’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Robert’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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- Jocelyn Bell Burnell1943
- Wayde van Niekerk1992
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Other Steadfast Strategists
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- David JuliusAmerican physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
- Joachim FrankGerman-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Ardem Patapoutianmolecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate 2021
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor
- Neil ArmstrongAmerican astronaut and lunar explorer
- George OrwellBritish writer and journalist
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Robert’s cards
Computed from July 15, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q224153 (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 Dann Kristoff, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Bruce Merrifield at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Bruce Merrifield.
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.
- 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 was Robert Bruce Merrifield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Bruce Merrifield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
