Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings (born June 9, 1910, Joplin, United States; died 1990), was an American actor. Cummings's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Aberconway Medal.
Robert Cummings’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Cummings’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Of the names registered in 1910, Robert came 4th among boys and 809th among girls, carried by 5,609 American boys and 29 girls.
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
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1910, 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 Cummings took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie in 1955, at 45.
Training came by way of Joplin High School and Drury University.
The working life starts in 1933, at 23.
Cause of death is recorded as kidney failure; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Robert Cummings was married Vivi Janiss.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Robert Cummings: Entertainers from Joplin, Missouri, Comedians from Missouri and Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni.
Johnny Depp (1963) and Natalie Portman (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Joplin High School, Drury University and Carnegie Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1955) and Aberconway Medal (1984)
- Working from
- 1933
- Cause of death
- kidney failure
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Robert needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Robert needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Robert is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Robert creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Cummings
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Joplin 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 Joplin that night
Computed for 37.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Joplin at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 12.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 37.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Joplin on any night.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon up and 9% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Joplin, United States
The death is recorded at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Cummings: 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
55 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · No Fire 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Robert Cummings's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 9, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Robert Cummings was born on June 9, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Robert Cummings's birth date, June 9, 1910, 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 Cummings' date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Cummings combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Cancer 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
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 7.2° orb
Robert’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.1° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb
Robert’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.3° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 4.6° to 18.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 6.0° to 20.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 2°43′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 11°13′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 0°10′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°41′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Eros opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.1°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.1°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.2°
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Robert’s cards
Computed from June 9, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q366678 (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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Cummings at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Cummings.
Quick answers about Robert Cummings’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Cummings?
- Robert Cummings was a Gemini: born June 9, 1910, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Cummings's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 9, 1910 birth.
- How tall was Robert Cummings?
- Robert Cummings was 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Robert Cummings's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Cummings's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Cummings's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Cummings's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
