Robert Jackson Bennett
Robert Jackson Bennett (born June 22, 1984, Baton Rouge, United States), aged 42, is an American writer. Bennett's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novel, Shirley Jackson Award for Novel and Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original.
Robert Jackson Bennett’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Jackson Bennett’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
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) × cardinal 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 9th among boys and 720th among girls in 1984, the year of this birth, with 31,768 American boys and 230 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
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 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, 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
Robert Jackson Bennett took the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel in 2010, at 26.
Training came by way of University of Texas at Austin.
Wikipedia's editors put Robert Jackson Bennett under Writers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni and Novelists from Louisiana.
The same date carries Will Hobson. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (2025), Shirley Jackson Award for Novel (2010) and Imaginales award for best foreign-language novel (2025)
- Nominated for
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel and Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert feels the room before entering it. The core of Robert is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Robert, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Robert needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 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 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Robert runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Jackson Bennett
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge that night
Computed for 30.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Baton Rouge at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 10.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 30.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −59.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Baton Rouge on any night.
The Moon was at last quarter, 35% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · Five planets retrograde · 3 planets 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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Robert Jackson Bennett's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Robert Jackson Bennett was born on June 22, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Robert Jackson Bennett's birth date, June 22, 1984, 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 Jackson Bennett's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Jackson Bennett combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Aries 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.1° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 2.0° orb
Robert’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.5° to 2.7° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSuntrinePluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.7° to 2.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.7° to 2.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 5°12′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 6°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 15°49′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 16°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.1°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Born the same day as Robert
Will Hobson was born on June 22, 1984 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Baton Rouge sits at 30.4°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rat years
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Other Radiant Pioneers
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Robert’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
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 Q16198845 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Jackson Bennett at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Jackson Bennett.
Quick answers about Robert Jackson Bennett’s chart
- How old is Robert Jackson Bennett?
- Robert Jackson Bennett is 42 years old, born June 22, 1984 in Baton Rouge, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Jackson Bennett?
- Robert Jackson Bennett is a Cancer: born June 22, 1984, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Jackson Bennett's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1984 birth.
- What is Robert Jackson Bennett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Jackson Bennett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Jackson Bennett's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Jackson Bennett's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
