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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

Of the names registered in 1896, Robert came 8th among boys and 592nd among girls, carried by 2,719 American boys and 28 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Robert’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

6

Soul Urge · being needed

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

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

The record

What sets Robert apart

Maya Angelou (1928) and Robert Downey Jr. (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Robert

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Robert E. Sherwood

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

Robert’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 33.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over New Rochelle that night

Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New Rochelle at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New Rochelle on any night.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon down and 50% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Aries Sun

Runs 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.

What Aries means →

Fire Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Robert E. Sherwood was born on April 4, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Robert E. Sherwood's birth date, April 4, 1896, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 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 5° to 18° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 3.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.7° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.6° orbSun in Aries · 15°25′☉15°Moon in Capricorn · 11°46′☽11°Mercury in Aries · 1°54′☿1°Venus in Pisces · 20°15′♀20°Mars in Aquarius · 24°24′♂24°Jupiter in Cancer · 29°16′♃29°Saturn in Scorpio · 17°58′ · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Scorpio · 23°56′ · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Gemini · 15°42′♆15°Pluto in Gemini · 11°04′♇11°

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

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.9° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn6.0° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.0° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 24°31′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 9°09′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 6°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 4°56′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.3°
  • Ceres square Pluto 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.9°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.4°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.3°

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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

Computed from April 4, 1896. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1362097 (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 Theatre Magazine Company; Vandamm Studio, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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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.
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 was Robert E. Sherwood's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Robert E. Sherwood's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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