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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Goat, with 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Robert sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Robert Hillyer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
Robert’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.0° to 3.8° orb
Robert’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.1° orb
Robert’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn4.6° to 5.7° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.2° to 5.9° orb
Robert’s drive grinds against their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 2°39′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Robert is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 8°27′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Robert caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosTaurus 7°15′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Robert wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Robert is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 28°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Robert at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Robert is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Hillyer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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- Johannes V. Jensen1873
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from June 3, 1895, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Robert Hillyer, 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 Q2157568, 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 William Saphier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Hillyer at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat.
- 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 time was Robert Hillyer 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 was Robert Hillyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 3, 1895 birth date.
- What was Robert Hillyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 3, 1895 birth date.
- 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.
