Robert Curl
Robert Curl (born August 23, 1933, Alice, United States; died 2022), was an American chemist. Curl's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Humboldt Prize and James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials.
Robert Curl’s zodiac sign was Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Water Rooster, with 
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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
2 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
—
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Robert creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Robert is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Robert Curl at a glance
Leo or Virgo Sun
Robert Curl was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Robert Curl was born on August 23, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Robert Curl's birth date, August 23, 1933, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Curl's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Curl, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.6° to 2.2° orb
Robert’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.8° to 1.4° 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.
stableSunsextileMars1.6° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.3° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSuntrineUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Robert’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto4.1° to 4.7° orb
Robert’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.8° to 6.8° orb
Robert’s affections and growth act as one.
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 5.3° to 18.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Robert turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 22°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Robert looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosSagittarius 25°45′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Robert attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°19′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Robert carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 23°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Robert that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.3°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.8°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.6°
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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Robert is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Mars, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Curl, 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 August 23, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Curl, 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 Q110930, 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.
Portrait by Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Curl 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.
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Quick answers about Robert Curl’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Curl?
- Robert Curl was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- What was Robert Curl's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1933 birth.
- What time was Robert Curl 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 Curl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 23, 1933 birth date.
- What was Robert Curl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 23, 1933 birth date.
- Where was Robert Curl's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Curl's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
