Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer (born April 29, 1960, Ottawa, Canada), aged 66, is a Canadian science fiction writer (born 1960). Sawyer's honours include Member of the Order of Canada, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence and Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Robert J. Sawyer’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert J. Sawyer’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 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, 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
In 1960, 72,357 American boys and 268 girls were registered Robert — 5th among boys and 613th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2).
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
22 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Robert apart
Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) 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 steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Robert is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Robert needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Robert is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Robert slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 J. Sawyer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ottawa 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 Ottawa that night
Computed for 45.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Ottawa at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 45.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 16% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Air planets
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Robert J. Sawyer's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Robert J. Sawyer was born on April 29, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Robert J. Sawyer's birth date, April 29, 1960, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert J. Sawyer's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Robert J. Sawyer 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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini 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 5.9° orb
Robert’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.2° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Robert’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.6° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.1° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.3° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.4° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 1°39′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 21°40′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 26°46′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 18°25′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 29°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.4°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Kite · Sun, Jupiter, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
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More charts like Robert’s
Fellow Taurus suns
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- Richard FeynmanAmerican theoretical physicist
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Born in Rat years
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- Maxwell AndersonAmerican playwright and writer
Also born on April 29
- Uma Thurman1970
- Michelle Pfeiffer1958
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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- Riley DixonAmerican football player (born 1993)
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Other Taurus Rat charts
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Other Radiant Architects
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Famous people with Life Path 22
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Robert’s cards
Computed from April 29, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
22 · Master Builder♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q362742 (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 The original uploader was Drakkenfyre at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert J. Sawyer at Wikipedia, sfwriter.com 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 J. Sawyer.
Quick answers about Robert J. Sawyer’s chart
- How old is Robert J. Sawyer?
- Robert J. Sawyer is 66 years old, born April 29, 1960 in Ottawa, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Robert J. Sawyer?
- Robert J. Sawyer is a Taurus: born April 29, 1960, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert J. Sawyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1960 birth.
- What is Robert J. Sawyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert J. Sawyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert J. Sawyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert J. Sawyer's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
