Robert H. Grubbs
Robert H. Grubbs (born February 27, 1942, Possum Trot, United States; died 2021), was a Nobel prize winning American chemist. Grubbs's honours include Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, Centenary Prize and Tetrahedron Prize.
Robert H. Grubbs’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert H. Grubbs’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 71,845 American boys and 208 girls named Robert in 1942: 2nd among boys and 515th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Benjamin Franklin Medal came in 2000, when Robert H. Grubbs was 58.
Study took Robert H. Grubbs to Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and Paducah Tilghman High School.
Robert H. Grubbs lies at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum.
Robert H. Grubbs was married Helen O'Kane-Grubbs.
Wikipedia files Robert H. Grubbs under Paducah Tilghman High School alumni, People from Paducah, Kentucky and Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
John Steinbeck (1902) and Elizabeth Taylor (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Paducah Tilghman High School and University of Florida
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005), Humboldt Prize (2005) and Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000)
- Buried at
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Robert is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Robert creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Robert is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Robert is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Possum Trot 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 Possum Trot that night
Computed for 37.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Possum Trot at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 10.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Possum Trot sits at 37.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −53.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Possum Trot on any night.
The Moon, 91% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Possum Trot, United States
The death is recorded at Duarte, Los Angeles County in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert H. Grubbs: 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
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Robert H. Grubbs's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 27, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Robert H. Grubbs was born on February 27, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Robert H. Grubbs's birth date, February 27, 1942, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert H. Grubbs' date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert H. Grubbs combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.6° to 1.0° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
Robert’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.1° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune6.8° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 9°33′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 23°36′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°18′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 29°18′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 9°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.3°
- Ceres square Mars 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.7°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury, 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.
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 1.5°
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Robert’s cards
Computed from February 27, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202140 (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 Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 H. Grubbs’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert H. Grubbs?
- Robert H. Grubbs was a Pisces: born February 27, 1942, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert H. Grubbs's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 27, 1942 birth.
- What was Robert H. Grubbs's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert H. Grubbs's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert H. Grubbs's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert H. Grubbs's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
