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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Robert Coles, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Robert’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.1° to 1.8° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.1° to 5.3° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineJupiter6.0° to 6.8° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Robert building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresGemini 18°55′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Robert feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosScorpio 18°37′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Robert is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 7°10′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Robert feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Robert is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Robert’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Robert is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Coles, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from October 12, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Robert Coles, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7343027, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Robert Coles at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- 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 time was Robert Coles born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Robert Coles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the October 12, 1929 birth date.
- What was Robert Coles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 12, 1929 birth date.
- 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.
