Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle (born April 14, 1961, Glasgow, United Kingdom), aged 65, is a Scottish actor. Carlyle's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Robert Carlyle’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Carlyle’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
The SSA recorded 72,977 American boys and 289 girls named Robert in 1961: 5th among boys and 592nd among girls for the year.
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
8
Soul Urge · achievement
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against 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 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Carlyle was taught at North Kelvinside Secondary and Cardonald College.
Robert Carlyle was 29 when the work began in 1990.
Wikipedia files Robert Carlyle under People from Maryhill, Male actors from Glasgow and Scottish male voice actors.
Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) and Adrien Brody (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- North Kelvinside Secondary, Cardonald College and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Working from
- 1990
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Robert needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 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 Carlyle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glasgow 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 Glasgow that night
Computed for 55.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Muscida stood nearest the zenith over Glasgow at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 55.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Pluto · 3-planet stellium in Aries · Venus retrograde
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Robert Carlyle's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Robert Carlyle was born on April 14, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Robert Carlyle's birth date, April 14, 1961, 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 Carlyle's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, 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 Carlyle 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 7° to 21° Aries 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
stableVenussquareMars0.1° to 1.2° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineUranus2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.6° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.8° to 6.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.7° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.0° 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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°14′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 11°55′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 15°49′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 0°13′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.4°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Yod onto Pluto · Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
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More charts like Robert’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Amancio OrtegaSpanish business tycoon
- Leighton MeesterAmerican actress and singer
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Born in Ox years
- Boo Seung-kwanSouth Korean singer
- Laurence FishburneAmerican actor
- Jack DavenportBritish actor
Also born on April 14
- Sarah Michelle Gellar1977
- Adrien Brody1973
- Abigail Breslin1996
- Georgina Chapman1976
- Rob McElhenney1977
- Chase Young1999
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- Duncan LaurenceDutch singer
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Other Radiant Strategists
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- Noni MaduekeEnglish footballer (born 2002)
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Aaron CarterAmerican pop singer, actor and songwriter
- Linda CardelliniAmerican actress (b. 1975)
- Michael Clarke DuncanAmerican actor
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Robert’s cards
Computed from April 14, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207307 (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 rach, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Robert Carlyle’s chart
- How old is Robert Carlyle?
- Robert Carlyle is 65 years old, born April 14, 1961 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Carlyle?
- Robert Carlyle is an Aries: born April 14, 1961, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Carlyle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 1961 birth.
- What is Robert Carlyle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Carlyle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Carlyle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Carlyle's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
