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Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall (born January 5, 1931, San Diego, United States; died 2026), was an American actor and director. Duvall's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Robert Duvall’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Robert Duvall’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal 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

In 1931, 60,519 American boys and 343 girls were registered Robert — 1st among boys and 345th 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

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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

The BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role came in 1980, when Robert Duvall was 49.

Study took Robert Duvall to The Principia and Severn School.

Robert Duvall was 21 when the work began in 1952.

The family line: born to Mildred Hart and William Howard Duvall and married Luciana Pedraza.

On Wikipedia the categories read Billinghurst family, Duvall family and Film directors from Maryland.

Alvin Ailey shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
The Principia, Severn School and Principia College
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actor (1984), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1980) and Donostia Award (2003)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1952
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
93

What the chart says

Robert, according to the stars

Core essence

Robert is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Robert is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Robert wants to be loved

Robert wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Robert and watch them fall for you again.

How Robert creates

How Robert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Robert creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Robert is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Robert fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Robert

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Robert

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Robert Duvall

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Diego on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Robert’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 85.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 72.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Diego that night

Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at San Diego at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

San Diego sits at 32.7°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 −57.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 96% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
San Diego, United States

The death is recorded at Middleburg, Loudoun County in 2026.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Duvall: 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

68 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde

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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Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Robert Duvall's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Robert Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Robert Duvall's birth date, January 5, 1931, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Robert’s chart

Robert’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.3° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.7° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 0.8° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.1° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.7° orbSun in Capricorn · 14°32′☉14°Moon in Leo · 2°09′☽2°Mercury in Capricorn · 15°16′ · retrograde☿℞15°Venus in Sagittarius · 1°22′♀1°Mars in Leo · 14°33′ · retrograde♂℞14°Jupiter in Cancer · 15°35′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Capricorn · 14°17′♄14°Uranus in Aries · 11°33′♅11°Neptune in Virgo · 5°34′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Cancer · 19°55′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.9° orb

    Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Robert’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Robert’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 1.7° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter0.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.0° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.0° to 5.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 10°50′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo or Leo during this date

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 5°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.4°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
  • Eros square Venus 1.2°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.4°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn 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.

  • Sun quincunx Mars 0.0°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.0°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Mars 0.7°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°

Born the same day as Robert

Alvin Ailey was born on January 5, 1931 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 32.7°N, the sky above San Diego stops at −57.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Robert’s cards

Computed from January 5, 1931. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171736 (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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Robert Duvall at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Duvall.

Quick answers about Robert Duvall’s chart

What zodiac sign was Robert Duvall?
Robert Duvall was a Capricorn: born January 5, 1931, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Robert Duvall's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1931 birth.
What was Robert Duvall's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Robert Duvall's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Robert Duvall's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Robert Duvall's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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