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Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil (born September 14, 1864, Cavendish Square, United Kingdom; died 1958), was a Lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom. Cecil served as Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom. Cecil's honours include Nobel Peace Prize and Cross of Liberty 1st Division, 3rd Class.

Robert Cecil’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Robert Cecil’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

No US figure exists for 1864 — the SSA series begins 16 years later. Robert opened it at 10th among boys and 515th among girls, 2,415 American boys and 12 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Robert’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

7

Soul Urge · understanding

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

6 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green

The record

What sets Robert apart

Leo XIV (1955) and Sam Neill (1947) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Robert is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Robert wants to be loved

Robert wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Robert gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Robert creates

How Robert makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Robert creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Robert is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Robert is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Robert scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Robert

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Robert

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cavendish Square on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Robert’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 83.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 17.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Cavendish Square that night

Computed for 51.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Cavendish Square at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.

Cavendish Square sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 unaspected planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Sees the typo from across the room.

Robert Cecil's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1864, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Wood Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Robert Cecil was born on September 14, 1864, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Robert Cecil's birth date, September 14, 1864, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

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What stands out in Robert’s chart

Robert’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.1° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbSun in Virgo · 21°53′☉21°Moon in Pisces · 2°09′☽2°Mercury in Libra · 9°25′ · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Libra · 7°42′♀7°Mars in Gemini · 9°26′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 22°56′♃22°Saturn in Libra · 17°29′♄17°Uranus in Gemini · 29°18′♅29°Neptune in Aries · 7°21′ · retrograde♆℞7°Pluto in Taurus · 13°06′ · retrograde♇℞13°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Robert’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Robert’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb

    Robert’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.9° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars1.3° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.9° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune1.9° to 2.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 14.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.7° to 16.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 3.3° to 18.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareUranusorb from 6.9° to 7.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 12°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 24°06′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 18°18′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 26°08′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.2°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.7°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus8 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 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.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Venus biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.5°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from September 14, 1864. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q12702 (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 Unknown, Public domain, 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 Cecil’s chart

What zodiac sign was Robert Cecil?
Robert Cecil was a Virgo: born September 14, 1864, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Robert Cecil's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1864 birth.
What was Robert Cecil's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Robert Cecil's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Robert Cecil's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Robert Cecil's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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