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Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953, Whittier, United States), aged 72, is an American-Canadian science fiction author (b. 1953). Wilson is best known for Spin. Wilson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Theodore Sturgeon Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Robert Charles Wilson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Robert Charles Wilson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

Robert ranked 1st among boys and 589th among girls in 1953, the year of this birth, with 86,243 American boys and 228 girls on the register.

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

5

Soul Urge · freedom

33

Personality · warm authority

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement 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

9 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Robert apart

Keylor Navas (1986) and Adam Brody (1979) 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 the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Robert is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

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 by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Robert and watch them fall for you again.

How Robert creates

How Robert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Robert creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Robert is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Robert is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Robert fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Robert's birth date. Working below.

Where Robert sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Robert

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Robert

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Robert’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 59.7° 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 Whittier that night

Computed for 33.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Whittier was Algol, in Perseus, 82.2° up.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 34.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 52° below the horizon, Moon up and 78% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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.

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Robert Charles Wilson in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

Robert Charles Wilson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 15, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Robert Charles Wilson was born on December 15, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Robert Charles Wilson's birth date, December 15, 1953, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

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 14° to 29° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.6° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.6° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun in Sagittarius · 23°34′☉23°Moon in Aries · 21°59′☽21°Mercury in Sagittarius · 7°28′☿7°Venus in Sagittarius · 12°46′♀12°Mars in Libra · 27°12′♂27°Jupiter in Gemini · 21°07′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Scorpio · 6°06′♄6°Uranus in Cancer · 22°10′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Libra · 25°33′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 24°56′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

    Robert’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrinePluto0.8° to 1.9° orb

    Robert’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 1.9° orb

    Robert’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter1.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.0° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.4° to 3.8° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.7° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 19°34′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 3°39′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 6°56′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 29°15′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Mars 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 3.0°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.6°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from December 15, 1953. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q240786 (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 Happy_Fanboy_with_Robert_Charles_Wilson!.jpg: seventorches derivative work: Fæ (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Robert Charles Wilson at Wikipedia and robert-charles-wilson.com.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Charles Wilson.

Quick answers about Robert Charles Wilson’s chart

How old is Robert Charles Wilson?
Robert Charles Wilson is 72 years old, born December 15, 1953 in Whittier, United States.
What zodiac sign is Robert Charles Wilson?
Robert Charles Wilson is a Sagittarius: born December 15, 1953, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Robert Charles Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 15, 1953 birth.
What is Robert Charles Wilson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Robert Charles Wilson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Robert Charles Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Robert Charles Wilson's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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