Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943, New York City, United States), aged 83, is an American actor. Notable films include Sesame Street, The Godfather Part II and Taxi Driver. Niro's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Academy Awards and Academy Award for Best Actor.
Robert De Niro’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert De Niro’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire 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
In 1943, 74,892 American boys and 250 girls were registered Robert — 2nd among boys and 469th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
22
Soul Urge · legacy
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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
Herta Müller (1953) and Sean Penn (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States and Italy
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Robert is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Robert needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Robert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Robert is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 De Niro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 9.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 93% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lives in
- Gardiner · Marbletown
Wikidata records Gardiner and Marbletown as Robert De Niro's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert De Niro: 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
71 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Saturn · A bowl chart
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 De Niro at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Robert De Niro's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 17, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Robert De Niro's birth date, August 17, 1943, 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 De Niro's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert De Niro combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.9° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussextilePluto1.2° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.3° to 2.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.9° to 6.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 2°53′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 21°60′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°37′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 9°00′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
- Ceres square Venus 1.5°
- Eros trine Mars 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.2°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.8°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
More people like Robert
Other actors
- Lynn Redgrave1943
- Marvin Hamlisch1944
- Christopher Walken1943
- Gladys Knight1944
- David Clennon1943
- Lena Nyman1944
Born in United States
- Joseph EllisAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Marilynne RobinsonAmerican novelist and essayist (born 1943)
- David GilerAmerican filmmaker
- Michael ParksPulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator
- Peter HyamsAmerican film director, screenwriter and cinematographer
- Wallace ShawnAmerican actor
More charts like Robert’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Robert SoutheyEnglish romantic poet
- Ted HughesEnglish poet and children's writer
- Paul SalyersAmerican Kentucky poet laureate
Born in Goat years
- Colton UnderwoodAmerican television personality
- Alex ShibutaniAmerican ice dancer
- Kate WalshAmerican actress
Also born on August 17
- Herta Müller1953
- Sean Penn1960
- Larry Ellison1944
- Austin Butler1991
- Phoebe Bridgers1994
- The Kid Laroi2003
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Norman AngellEnglish politician
- H. Robert HorvitzAmerican biologist
- Niels Kaj JerneDanish immunologist
Other Leo Goat charts
- Bert LahrAmerican actor
- Tom McCamusCanadian actor
- Kimia HosseiniIranian actress
- Stanley MiddletonBritish writer
Other Radiant Guardians
- Tyler BassAmerican football placekicker
- Malcolm RoachAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jake HummelAmerican football player
- Andrew BillingsAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ralph McGillAmerican journalist
- Russel B. NyeAmerican academic
- Sonia Nazariojournalist
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Robert’s cards
Computed from August 17, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q36949 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert De Niro at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert De Niro.
Quick answers about Robert De Niro’s chart
- How old is Robert De Niro?
- Robert De Niro is 83 years old, born August 17, 1943 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert De Niro?
- Robert De Niro is a Leo: born August 17, 1943, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert De Niro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 17, 1943 birth.
- How tall is Robert De Niro?
- Robert De Niro is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Robert De Niro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert De Niro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert De Niro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert De Niro's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
