Robert K. Massie
Robert K. Massie (born January 5, 1929, Versailles, United States; died 2019), was an American historian. Massie's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Rhodes Scholarship and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
Robert K. Massie’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert K. Massie’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 59,807 American boys and 441 girls named Robert in 1929: 1st among boys and 314th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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
The Rhodes Scholarship came in 1950, when Robert K. Massie was 21.
Robert K. Massie was taught at University School of Nashville and Davenport College.
Cause of death is recorded as Alzheimer's disease.
On the family side, Robert K. Massie was married Suzanne Massie and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Robert K. Massie under People from Versailles, Kentucky, The Saturday Evening Post people and Historians of Russia.
Umberto Eco (1932) and Bradley Cooper (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University School of Nashville, Davenport College and Oriel College
- Awards
- Rhodes Scholarship (1950), Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1981) and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2012)
- Cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Robert is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Robert needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Robert be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Robert creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Robert is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Robert scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Versailles 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 Versailles that night
Computed for 38.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Versailles at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.6° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Versailles sits at 38.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Versailles at all: they sit past the −51.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 20% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Versailles, United States
The death is recorded at Irvington, Westchester County in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert K. Massie: 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
55 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Robert K. Massie at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Robert K. Massie's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Robert K. Massie was born on January 5, 1929, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Robert K. Massie's birth date, January 5, 1929, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert K. Massie's date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Robert K. Massie combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.0° orb
Robert’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.3° orb
Robert’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.0° to 2.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.1° to 5.7° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.2° to 5.7° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.4° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 3.3° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°50′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 27°04′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°41′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 14°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.9°
- Eros square Saturn 2.8°
- Eros square Mars 2.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Grand trine · Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.6°
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Robert’s cards
Computed from January 5, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1343649 (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.
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Quick answers about Robert K. Massie’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert K. Massie?
- Robert K. Massie was a Capricorn: born January 5, 1929, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert K. Massie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1929 birth.
- What was Robert K. Massie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert K. Massie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert K. Massie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert K. Massie's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
