Robert E. Sherwood
Robert E. Sherwood (born April 4, 1896, New Rochelle, United States; died 1955), was an American writer. Sherwood is best remembered for Waterloo Bridge. Sherwood's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Robert E. Sherwood’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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Robert E. Sherwood’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
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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 steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Robert needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Robert, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Robert is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Robert goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Robert sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Robert E. Sherwood's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1896, 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.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Robert E. Sherwood was born on April 4, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Robert E. Sherwood's birth date, April 4, 1896, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert E. Sherwood's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Robert E. Sherwood combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert E. Sherwood, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Capricorn 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.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus0.1° to 0.9° orb
Robert’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.6° to 2.9° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.7° to 3.5° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsextilePluto3.9° to 4.8° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
Robert’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareSaturn6.0° to 6.9° orb
Robert’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.0° orb
Robert’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 24°31′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Robert is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresPisces 9°09′ (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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 6°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Robert is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAries 4°56′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Robert feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Robert carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Chiron trine Mars 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.9°
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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus; 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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert E. Sherwood, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from April 4, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert E. Sherwood, 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 Q1362097, 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 Theatre Magazine Company; Vandamm Studio, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert E. Sherwood at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 E. Sherwood’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert E. Sherwood?
- Robert E. Sherwood was an Aries: born April 4, 1896, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
- What was Robert E. Sherwood's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1896 birth.
- What time was Robert E. Sherwood 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.
- What was Robert E. Sherwood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 4, 1896 birth date.
- What was Robert E. Sherwood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1896 birth date.
- Where was Robert E. Sherwood's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert E. Sherwood's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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