Robert Coles
Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929, Boston, United States; died 2026), was an American psychiatrist. Coles's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
Robert Coles’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Coles’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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
The SSA recorded 59,807 American boys and 441 girls named Robert in 1929: 1st among boys and 314th 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
22
Soul Urge · legacy
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2).
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
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, 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
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award came in 1967, when Robert Coles was 38.
The schooling ran through Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Harvard University.
Wikipedia files Robert Coles under American psychology writers, McLean Hospital physicians and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni.
Luciano Pavarotti (1935) and Hugh Jackman (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1973), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1998) and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (1967)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Robert is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Robert needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Robert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Robert is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Robert runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Coles
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Scheat, in Pegasus, 74.8° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boston on any night.
The Moon, 72% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Boston, United States
The death is recorded at Lincoln, Middlesex County in 2026.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Coles: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Robert Coles's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 12, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Robert Coles was born on October 12, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Robert Coles's birth date, October 12, 1929, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Coles' date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Robert Coles combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Aquarius 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
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.8° orb
Robert’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableSunsquarePluto0.2° to 1.2° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.5° to 1.3° orb
Robert’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextilePluto0.5° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune1.1° to 1.8° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter6.0° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.4° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 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 ℞Taurus 13°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 18°55′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 18°37′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 7°10′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres square Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.8°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.8°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
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Born in Snake years
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- Luciano Pavarotti1935
- Hugh Jackman1968
- Aleister Crowley1875
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- Mia Threapleton2000
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- Prabowo SubiantoPresident of the Republic of Indonesia
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Other Gilded Visionarys
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- Rodrigo AguirreUruguayan footballer
- Brice SambaFrench-Congolese footballer (born 1994)
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Robert’s cards
Computed from October 12, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7343027 (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.
The same Robert Coles 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 Coles.
Quick answers about Robert Coles’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Coles?
- Robert Coles was a Libra: born October 12, 1929, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Coles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 12, 1929 birth.
- What was Robert Coles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Coles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Coles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Coles's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
