Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965, Manhattan, United States), aged 61, is an American actor. Notable films include The Avengers, Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War. Downey's honours include Golden Globe Awards, California Hall of Fame and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Robert Downey Jr.’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Downey Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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 1965, Robert came 5th among boys and 609th among girls, carried by 63,106 American boys and 255 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
22
Soul Urge · legacy
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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
Maya Angelou (1928) and Heath Ledger (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Robert is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Robert needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Robert creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Robert is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Robert channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Downey Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 11% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
- Lives in
- Malibu
Wikidata records Malibu as Robert Downey Jr.'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 Downey Jr.: 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
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Five planets retrograde · No Air planets
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Robert Downey Jr. was born on April 4, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Robert Downey Jr.'s birth date, April 4, 1965, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Downey Jr.'s date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Robert Downey Jr. combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Taurus 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
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.9° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.4° to 0.6° orb
Robert’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.2° to 1.4° orb
Robert’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.6° to 1.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 7.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 19°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 6°30′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 15°26′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°28′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.4°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.7°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.6°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.3°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.7°
More people like Robert
Other actors
- Paulina Porizkova1965
- Noah Emmerich1965
- Fikret Kuşkan1965
- Sandy Yawn1965
- Linda Evangelista1965
- Kristin Davis1965
Born in United States
- Kevin JamesAmerican comedian and actor
- Noah EmmerichAmerican actor
- Luann de LessepsAmerican reality television personality, model, socialite, actress, author, singer (born 1965)
- Dan FriedkinAmerican businessman
- Trent ReznorAmerican musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer
- Sandy Yawnactress
More charts like Robert’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Dmitry Mazepinbusinessman
- Soegiarto AdikoesoemoPresident Commissioner, AKR Corporindo
- Said GutserievRussian-British businessperson
Born in Snake years
- Dixie D'AmelioAmerican influencer (born 2001)
- Maitreyi RamakrishnanCanadian actress
- SpotemGottemAmerican rapper
Also born on April 4
- Maya Angelou1928
- Heath Ledger1979
- Hugh Masekela1939
- Natasha Lyonne1979
- Jill Scott1972
- Eric André1983
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- David J. WinelandAmerican physicist
- Carl BernsteinAmerican journalist (born 1944)
- John Kennedy TooleAmerican novelist
Other Aries Snake charts
- John Lewis GaddisAmerican historian of the Cold War (b. 1941)
- David LangfordBritish writer
- Robert BlochAmerican fiction writer
- Sarah PinskerAmerican science fiction author
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- William G. KaelinAmerican Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
- Barry C. BarishAmerican physicist
- MacKinlay KantorAmerican journalist, novelist and screenwriter
- Bernadotte Everly SchmittAmerican historian
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Richard KinderAmerican businessman
- Stephen M. RossAmerican businessman
- Vladimir YevtushenkovRussian billionaire
From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Robert’s cards
Computed from April 4, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q165219 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Downey Jr. at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Downey Jr..
Quick answers about Robert Downey Jr.’s chart
- How old is Robert Downey Jr.?
- Robert Downey Jr. is 61 years old, born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Downey Jr.?
- Robert Downey Jr. is an Aries: born April 4, 1965, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Downey Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1965 birth.
- How tall is Robert Downey Jr.?
- Robert Downey Jr. is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Robert Downey Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Downey Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Downey Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Downey Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
