Robert Hillyer
Robert Hillyer (born June 3, 1895, East Orange, United States; died 1961), was an American poet. Hillyer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Robert Hillyer’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Hillyer’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal 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 8th among boys and 722nd among girls in 1895, the year of this birth, with 2,635 American boys and 20 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.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets Robert apart
Robert Hillyer took the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1934, at 39.
Kent School and Harvard University shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Robert Hillyer under Danish-English translators, Kenyon College faculty and Writers from East Orange, New Jersey.
Rafael Nadal (1986) and Désiré Doué (2005) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Kent School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1934)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Danish
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Robert needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Robert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Robert does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Hillyer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above East Orange 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 East Orange that night
Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over East Orange at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 87% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- East Orange, United States
The death is recorded at Wilmington, New Castle County in 1961.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Hillyer: 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
76 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Cancer · 3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Robert Hillyer's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 3, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Robert Hillyer was born on June 3, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Robert Hillyer's birth date, June 3, 1895, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Hillyer's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Hillyer combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.9° orb
Robert’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.8° to 1.3° orb
Robert’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.1° to 2.0° orb
Robert’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.2° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.9° to 17.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 4.0° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Earth signs.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 2°39′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 8°27′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 7°15′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 28°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterThree 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.- Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
More people like Robert
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- Sam Ragan1915
- Johannes V. Jensen1873
- Roy Lee Harmon1900
- William Jay Smith1918
- Albert Camus1913
- Leonard Bacon1887
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Robert’s cards
Computed from June 3, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2157568 (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 William Saphier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Hillyer at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Hillyer.
Quick answers about Robert Hillyer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Hillyer?
- Robert Hillyer was a Gemini: born June 3, 1895, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Hillyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 3, 1895 birth.
- What was Robert Hillyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Hillyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Hillyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Hillyer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
