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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Snake, with 
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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
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
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Robert Downey Jr., so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Taurus 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.
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
Robert’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.0° orb
Robert’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.2° to 2.4° orb
Robert’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.8° orb
Robert’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.0° to 4.2° orb
Robert’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 7.3° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
Robert’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 19°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Robert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresPisces 6°30′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Robert is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 15°26′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Robert is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°28′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Robert is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Robert is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- 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°
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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Robert is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Downey Jr., 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 April 4, 1965, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Robert Downey Jr., 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 Q165219, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
- 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.
- What time was Robert Downey Jr. 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.
- 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 from the April 4, 1965 birth date.
- What is Robert Downey Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1965 birth date.
- 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.
