Robert D. McFadden
Robert D. McFadden (born February 11, 1937, Milwaukee, United States), aged 89, is an American journalist. McFadden is best known for Joan Rivers, a Comic Stiletto Quick to Skewer, Is Dead at 81. McFadden's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.
Robert D. McFadden’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert D. McFadden’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 1937, Robert came 1st among boys and 441st among girls, carried by 61,842 American boys and 223 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
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
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
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
The record
What sets Robert apart
Thomas Edison (1847) and Jennifer Aniston (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Robert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Robert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Robert is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 D. McFadden
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee that night
Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Milwaukee was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 82.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Robert D. McFadden at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Robert D. McFadden's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 11, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Robert D. McFadden was born on February 11, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Robert D. McFadden's birth date, February 11, 1937, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert D. McFadden's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Robert D. McFadden combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.1° to 0.5° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn2.6° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.9° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.9° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareJupiterorb from 6.4° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°48′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 26°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 1°38′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 1°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun
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.
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
More people like Robert
Other journalists
- Lucy Morgan1940
- Meg Greenfield1930
- Lewis M. Simons1939
- Lois Wille1931
- Loren Jenkins1938
- Nick Kotz1932
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Robert’s cards
Computed from February 11, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7343324 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert D. McFadden.
Quick answers about Robert D. McFadden’s chart
- How old is Robert D. McFadden?
- Robert D. McFadden is 89 years old, born February 11, 1937 in Milwaukee, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert D. McFadden?
- Robert D. McFadden is an Aquarius: born February 11, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert D. McFadden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 11, 1937 birth.
- What is Robert D. McFadden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert D. McFadden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert D. McFadden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert D. McFadden's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
