Robert N. Butler
Robert N. Butler (born January 21, 1927, New Jersey, United States; died 2010), was an American academic. Butler's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction.
Robert N. Butler’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Robert N. Butler’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Robert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Robert needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Robert creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Robert is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Robert is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Robert N. Butler's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 21, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Robert N. Butler was born on January 21, 1927, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Robert N. Butler's birth date, January 21, 1927, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert N. Butler's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Robert N. Butler combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert N. Butler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Virgo 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.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarssextilePluto0.6° to 1.0° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 4.9° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.6° orb
Robert’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 1.8° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileSaturnorb from 4.1° to 5.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 6.3° to 18.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironAries 27°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Robert may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°08′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Robert is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 8°42′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Robert is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLibra 14°11′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Robert is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Robert exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.1°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.5°
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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 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.
Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert N. Butler, 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 January 21, 1927, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert N. Butler, 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 Q465106, 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 National Institutes of Health, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 N. Butler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert N. Butler?
- Robert N. Butler was an Aquarius: born January 21, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Robert N. Butler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 21, 1927 birth.
- What time was Robert N. Butler 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 N. Butler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 21, 1927 birth date.
- What was Robert N. Butler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 21, 1927 birth date.
- Where was Robert N. Butler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert N. Butler's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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