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Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon (born December 18, 1973, Imperial, United States), aged 52, is an American screenwriter and producer. Gordon's honours include Nebula Award for Best Script and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Robert Gordon’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Robert Gordon’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

Robert ranked 7th among boys and 620th among girls in 1973, the year of this birth, with 38,698 American boys and 249 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Robert’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

5

Soul Urge · freedom

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 9: care 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

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Robert apart

Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) 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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Robert is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Robert cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Robert needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Robert wants to be loved

Robert wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Robert be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Robert creates

How Robert makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Robert creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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 to wait. Mars in Aries means Robert gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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

PrivateExpressive
Robert

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

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Imperial 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 Imperial that night

Computed for 32.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Imperial was Atik, in Perseus, 82.7° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 32.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Imperial on any night.

Sun 54° below the horizon, Moon down and 25% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No Earth planets

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Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Robert Gordon's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Robert Gordon was born on December 18, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Robert Gordon's birth date, December 18, 1973, 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 15° to 28° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.6° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.2° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 26°46′☉26°Moon in Libra · 22°15′☽22°Mercury in Sagittarius · 14°52′☿14°Venus in Aquarius · 7°02′♀7°Mars in Aries · 28°27′♂28°Jupiter in Aquarius · 11°39′♃11°Saturn in Cancer · 1°37′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Libra · 26°53′♅26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 7°52′♆7°Pluto in Libra · 6°42′♇6°

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

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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

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Robert’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.1° to 0.6° orb

    Robert’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.6° to 1.1° orb

    Robert’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars1.3° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus1.5° to 1.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.0° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn4.3° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus4.7° to 4.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 0°43′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°09′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 13°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.4°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.6°
  • Eros trine Mars 2.3°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Venus biquintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.4°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from December 18, 1973. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7344869 (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.

The same Robert Gordon at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Gordon.

Quick answers about Robert Gordon’s chart

How old is Robert Gordon?
Robert Gordon is 52 years old, born December 18, 1973 in Imperial, United States.
What zodiac sign is Robert Gordon?
Robert Gordon is a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1973, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Robert Gordon's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1973 birth.
What is Robert Gordon's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Robert Gordon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Robert Gordon's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Robert Gordon's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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