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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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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.

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 4th among boys and 515th among girls in 1917, the year of this birth, with 35,220 American boys and 168 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.

4

Expression · building what holds

22

Soul Urge · legacy

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice 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

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

The record

What sets Robert apart

Javier Bardem (1969) and Lupita Nyong'o (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. 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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Robert

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Robert

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Robert

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Robert

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Robert

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Robert’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 78.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 61° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Castor, in Gemini, 78.7° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boston on any night.

Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon up and 64% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Robert's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 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 Lowell in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Absorbs 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.

What Pisces means →

Fire Snake

Says less than it knows.

Robert Lowell was born on March 1, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Robert Lowell's birth date, March 1, 1917, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 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 15° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.1° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 4.5° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.6° orbSun in Pisces · 10°33′☉10°Moon in Gemini · 22°00′☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 19°15′☿19°Venus in Aquarius · 26°28′♀26°Mars in Pisces · 10°23′♂10°Jupiter in Taurus · 2°58′♃2°Saturn in Cancer · 24°12′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Aquarius · 20°53′♅20°Neptune in Leo · 2°34′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Cancer · 2°23′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.0° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.3° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 24°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 15°44′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 25°03′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°17′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.7°
  • Eros trine Saturn 0.8°
  • Eros square Venus 1.4°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 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.

  • 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°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from March 1, 1917. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q981448 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Lowell.

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.
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 was Robert Lowell's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Robert Lowell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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