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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

Of the names registered in 1927, Robert came 1st among boys and 332nd among girls, carried by 61,674 American boys and 411 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Robert’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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 N. Butler took the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1976, at 49.

The classrooms behind this chart: DeWitt Clinton High School and Columbia University.

Cause of death is recorded as leukemia; the grave is at Rock Creek Cemetery.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Robert N. Butler: People from Vineland, New Jersey, American medical academics and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty.

Christian Dior (1905) and Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
DeWitt Clinton High School and Columbia University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1976) and Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction (1983)
Cause of death
leukemia
Buried at
Rock Creek Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
11

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. 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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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

Dedicate a star to Robert N. Butler

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

Robert’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 83.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 41.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over New Jersey that night

Computed for 40.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New Jersey was Capella, in Auriga, 83.9° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New Jersey on any night.

Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 85% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
New Jersey, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2010.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert N. Butler: 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

45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Neptune · 2 planets at a critical degree

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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Aquarius Sun

Ideas 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.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Robert N. Butler was born on January 21, 1927, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Robert N. Butler's birth date, January 21, 1927, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 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 6° to 18° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Mars · Square, 0° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.2° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 0°40′☉0°Moon in Virgo · 12°56′☽12°Mercury in Capricorn · 26°08′☿26°Venus in Aquarius · 15°19′♀15°Mars in Taurus · 15°21′♂15°Jupiter in Pisces · 0°43′♃0°Saturn in Sagittarius · 5°13′♄5°Uranus in Pisces · 26°27′♅26°Neptune in Leo · 26°17′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Cancer · 14°33′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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

  • 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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°08′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 8°42′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 14°11′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Robert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn3.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Robert’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Robert’s cards

Computed from January 21, 1927. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q465106 (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 National Institutes of Health, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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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.
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 was Robert N. Butler's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Robert N. Butler's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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