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Robert Lefkowitz

Robert Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943, The Bronx, United States), aged 83, is an American physician and biochemist. Lefkowitz's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Medal of Science and John J. Abel Award.

Robert Lefkowitz’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Robert Lefkowitz’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water 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

Robert ranked 2nd among boys and 469th among girls in 1943, the year of this birth, with 74,892 American boys and 250 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.

7

Expression · depth and research

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

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 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Lefkowitz took the John J. Abel Award in 1978, at 35.

The classrooms behind this chart: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bronx High School of Science.

Wikipedia's editors put Robert Lefkowitz under Duke University School of Medicine faculty, Medical doctors from New York City and Scientists from the Bronx.

Emma Watson (1990) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bronx High School of Science and Duke University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2012), John J. Abel Award (1978) and National Medal of Science (2007)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
61

What the chart says

Robert, according to the stars

Core essence

Robert leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Robert is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Robert creates

How Robert makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Robert creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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 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. Working below.

Where Robert sits

Six lines

Robert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Robert

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Robert

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Robert Lefkowitz

Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Robert’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 28.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over The Bronx that night

Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at The Bronx was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.2° up.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 80% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Venus · 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.

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Robert Lefkowitz in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Robert Lefkowitz's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Robert Lefkowitz was born on April 15, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Robert Lefkowitz's birth date, April 15, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Robert’s chart

Robert’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.7° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1.8° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.3° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSun in Aries · 24°49′☉24°Moon in Leo · 27°59′☽27°Mercury in Taurus · 7°00′☿6°Venus in Taurus · 29°48′♀29°Mars in Aquarius · 28°40′♂28°Jupiter in Cancer · 17°01′♃17°Saturn in Gemini · 9°33′♄9°Uranus in Gemini · 2°22′♅2°Neptune in Libra · 0°03′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Leo · 4°55′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 6.3° orb

    Robert’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Robert’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.9° to 1.3° orb

    Robert’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto1.1° to 3.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.4° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°00′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 3°59′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 3°07′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 2°45′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.8°
  • Ceres square Pluto 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Sun 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 1.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 3.0°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 1.4°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from April 15, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80910 (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 Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Robert Lefkowitz 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 Lefkowitz.

Quick answers about Robert Lefkowitz’s chart

How old is Robert Lefkowitz?
Robert Lefkowitz is 83 years old, born April 15, 1943 in The Bronx, United States.
What zodiac sign is Robert Lefkowitz?
Robert Lefkowitz is an Aries: born April 15, 1943, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Robert Lefkowitz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1943 birth.
What is Robert Lefkowitz's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Robert Lefkowitz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Robert Lefkowitz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Robert Lefkowitz's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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