Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (born March 1, 1917, Boston, United States; died 1977), was an American poet. Lowell is best remembered for Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies and For the Union Dead. Lowell's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Award.
Robert Lowell’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Robert Lowell’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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~4,869,849
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Robert is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Robert creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Robert is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Robert Lowell in 15 seconds
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Robert Lowell's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Robert Lowell was born on March 1, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Robert Lowell's birth date, March 1, 1917, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Lowell's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Lowell combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Lowell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.1° to 0.3° orb
Robert’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.3° to 0.5° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.5° to 0.7° orb
Robert’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.9° to 2.3° orb
Robert’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.0° to 6.2° orb
Robert’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenustrinePluto5.3° to 6.5° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.3° orb
Robert’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 4.3° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 5.8° to 17.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Robert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 15°44′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Robert caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosScorpio 25°03′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Robert is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°17′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Robert is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Robert is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.7°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.8°
- Eros square Venus 1.4°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Robert’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Robert is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Lowell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from March 1, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Lowell, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q981448, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Elsa Dorfman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Lowell at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Robert Lowell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Lowell?
- Robert Lowell was a Pisces: born March 1, 1917, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Robert Lowell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1917 birth.
- What time was Robert Lowell born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Robert Lowell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the March 1, 1917 birth date.
- What was Robert Lowell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 1, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Robert Lowell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Lowell's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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