Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.; January 17, 1954, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 72 is a 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2025.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1954) served as the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2025. Kennedy is best known for Ring of Fire. Kennedy's honours include Time 100 and American Book Awards.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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
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
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Robert needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Robert you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Robert creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Robert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Robert leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Robert runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was born on January 17, 1954, which falls in a Water 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 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s birth date, January 17, 1954, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Cancer 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.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.6° to 2.2° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
Robert’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.1° to 3.8° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.7° to 4.0° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus3.7° to 4.3° orb
Robert’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 5.1° orb
Robert’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussquareNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb
Robert’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionUranus5.7° to 6.8° orb
Robert’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 22°32′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Robert is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresLibra 11°24′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Robert is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 4°29′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Robert is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 23°26′ (moves 0.20° 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 LilithLibra 13°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Robert that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.6°
- Hygiea square Neptune 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. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Robert is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Capricorn · 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.
T-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert F. Kennedy 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 January 17, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert F. Kennedy 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 Q1352872, 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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s chart
- How old is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is 72 years old, born January 17, 1954 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1954, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- What is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1954 birth.
- What time was Robert F. Kennedy 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.
- What is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1954 birth date.
- What is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1954 birth date.
- Where is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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