Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter (born February 5, 1915, New York City, United States; died 1990), was an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Hofstadter's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Robert Hofstadter’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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Robert Hofstadter’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
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What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Robert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Robert and watch them fall for you again.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Robert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Robert goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Robert Hofstadter's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Robert Hofstadter was born on February 5, 1915, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Robert Hofstadter's birth date, February 5, 1915, 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 Hofstadter's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Robert Hofstadter combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Hofstadter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° 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.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.0° to 1.7° orb
Robert’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.8° to 3.8° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrinePluto3.1° to 4.2° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
Robert’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb
Robert’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.5° to 4.8° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
Robert’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.8° orb
Robert’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.5° to 7.2° orb
Robert’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 16°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Robert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresPisces 16°30′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Robert is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosTaurus 3°58′ (moves 0.80° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 21°19′ (moves 0.17° 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 LilithTaurus 18°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Robert is read as immovable on those points.
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 0.1°
- Eros square Mars 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.8°
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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Robert is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Aquarius · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
Yod onto Neptune · Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Hofstadter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Robert’s family here
One relative of Robert Hofstadter also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from February 5, 1915, 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 Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Hofstadter, 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 Q130113, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Hofstadter at Wikipedia.
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 Hofstadter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Hofstadter?
- Robert Hofstadter was an Aquarius: born February 5, 1915, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1915 birth.
- What time was Robert Hofstadter 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 Hofstadter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 5, 1915 birth date.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 5, 1915 birth date.
- Where was Robert Hofstadter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
