Robert Lewis Taylor
Robert Lewis Taylor (born September 24, 1912, Carbondale, United States; died 1998), was an American author. Taylor's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Robert Lewis Taylor’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Lewis Taylor’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 1912, 12,836 American boys and 64 girls were registered Robert — 4th among boys and 619th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Blush · Soft pink
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 1912, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction came in 1959, when Robert Lewis Taylor was 47.
The schooling ran through UIUC College of Media and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Carbondale, Illinois, Novelists from Illinois and Journalists from Illinois.
Birgit Sarrap (1988) and Hannah Brown (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- UIUC College of Media and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1959)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Robert is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Robert needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Robert gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Robert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Robert leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Robert fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Lewis Taylor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Carbondale 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 Carbondale that night
Computed for 37.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Carbondale was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 81.9° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Carbondale sits at 37.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −52.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Carbondale on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Carbondale, United States
The death is recorded at Southbury, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region in 1998.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Lewis Taylor: 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
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · Grand trine · T-square onto Venus
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Robert Lewis Taylor's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 24, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Robert Lewis Taylor was born on September 24, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Robert Lewis Taylor's birth date, September 24, 1912, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Lewis Taylor's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Lewis Taylor combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Pisces 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
stableSunsquarePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineUranus1.2° to 2.2° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.3° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.4° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 1.7° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextileJupiterorb from 4.5° to 5.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineUranusorb from 5.2° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable4 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 ℞Pisces 7°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 0°23′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°47′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°42′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 0.3°
- Eros square Venus 0.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Grand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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 semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
More people like Robert
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Born in United States
- Julius AxelrodAmerican biochemist
- Risë StevensAmerican opera singer, vocalist and actress
- John TolandAmerican writer
- Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.American newspaperman and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Henry JonesAmerican actor of stage, film and television
- William IngeAmerican playwright and novelist
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Robert’s cards
Computed from September 24, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
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 Q503557 (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.
The same Robert Lewis Taylor at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Quick answers about Robert Lewis Taylor’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Lewis Taylor?
- Robert Lewis Taylor was a Libra: born September 24, 1912, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Lewis Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 24, 1912 birth.
- What was Robert Lewis Taylor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Lewis Taylor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Lewis Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Lewis Taylor's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
