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), Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Robert
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
In 1933, 54,221 American boys and 273 girls were registered Robert — 1st among boys and 391st among girls on the SSA's list that 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
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice 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
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 record
What sets Robert apart
Kobe Bryant (1978) and River Phoenix (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Robert Curl
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Alice 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 Alice that night
Computed for 27.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Alice was Rasalgethi, in Hercules, 75.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
Alice sits at 27.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −62.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Acrux permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 9% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Pluto · 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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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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSuntrineUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.8° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 22°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 25°45′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°19′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 23°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Robert’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Robert’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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- George Smith1941
- William C. Campbell1930
- Richard Robson1937
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Robert’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1933. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110930 (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 Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Curl 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 Curl.
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.
- 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 was Robert Curl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Curl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
