Robert Edwards
Robert Edwards (born September 27, 1925, Batley, United Kingdom; died 2013), was an English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation. Edwards's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Bachelor and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Robert Edwards’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Edwards’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1925, 60,895 American boys and 350 girls were registered Robert — 1st among boys and 364th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel came in 1988, when Robert Edwards was 63.
Study took Robert Edwards to Bangor University and University of Edinburgh.
The record gives disease as the cause, and Elmwood Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: married Ruth Fowler Edwards.
On Wikipedia the categories read British eugenicists, People from Batley and Alumni of Bangor University.
Avril Lavigne (1984) and Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bangor University and University of Edinburgh
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2010), Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2001) and King Faisal Prize in Medicine (1989)
- Cause of death
- disease
- Buried at
- Elmwood Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Robert is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Robert even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Robert builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Robert is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Edwards
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Batley 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 Batley that night
Computed for 53.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Batley at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 9.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Batley sits at 53.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Batley on any night.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 76% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Batley, United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Manchester · Leeds
Wikidata records Manchester and Leeds as Robert Edwards's home, against Batley as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Cambridge in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Edwards: 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
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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.
Score your own chart →Robert Edwards at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Robert Edwards's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 27, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Robert Edwards was born on September 27, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Robert Edwards's birth date, September 27, 1925, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Edwards' date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Robert Edwards combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableVenussextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenustrinePluto0.6° to 1.8° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.9° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.8° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.5° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus5.7° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 5°36′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 26°44′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 17°56′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 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.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.2°
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Robert’s cards
Computed from September 27, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104913 (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 Susannny, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Edwards at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Edwards.
Quick answers about Robert Edwards’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Edwards?
- Robert Edwards was a Libra: born September 27, 1925, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Edwards's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 27, 1925 birth.
- What was Robert Edwards's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Edwards's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Edwards's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Edwards's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
