Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (born April 24, 1905, Guthrie, United States; died 1989), was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic. Warren is best remembered for Who Speaks for the Negro?, Understanding Poetry and Night Rider. Warren's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and National Book Award.
Robert Penn Warren’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Penn Warren’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 1905, Robert came 6th among boys and 820th among girls, carried by 3,410 American boys and 21 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
22
Soul Urge · legacy
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
The record
What sets Robert apart
Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) 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 is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Robert is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Robert needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Robert is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Robert is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Robert runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guthrie 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 Guthrie that night
Computed for 36.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Guthrie at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 13.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 36.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −53.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Guthrie on any night.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon down and 64% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 unaspected planets · No Fire planets
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.
Score your own chart →Robert Penn Warren at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Robert Penn Warren's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Robert Penn Warren was born on April 24, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Robert Penn Warren's birth date, April 24, 1905, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Penn Warren's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Penn Warren combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.6° to 2.2° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.1° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.3° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 5.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 6°31′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 4°08′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°30′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 2°15′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron square Venus 1.6°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros square Venus 2.4°
- Chiron square Sun 2.7°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.0°
More people like Robert
Other literary critics
- Van Wyck Brooks1886
- Samuel R. Delany1942
- Abigail Nussbaum1981
Born in United States
- Agnes de MilleAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Count BasieAmerican jazz musician and composer
- Henry FondaAmerican actor
- Richard EberhartAmerican poet
- Carl David AndersonAmerican physicist
- Joseph LivingstonAmerican journalist
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Alfred KastlerFrench physicist
- Paul KarrerSwiss chemist
- George E. SmithNobel prize winning American physicist
Born in Snake years
- Evan VucciAmerican photographer, chief Washington photographer at Associated Press
- John PatrickAmerican playwright and screenwriter
- Shirley Ann GrauAmerican writer
Also born on April 24
- Barbra Streisand1942
- Shirley MacLaine1934
- Kelly Clarkson1982
- Josep Borrell1947
- Djimon Hounsou1964
- Jean-Paul Gaultier1952
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Gautam AdaniIndian businessman
- Jackson WangChinese rapper and singer
- Nia LongAmerican actress
Other Taurus Snake charts
- Jonathan MingoAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Cooper BeebeAmerican football player
- Anthony BradfordAmerican football player
- Kaiir ElamAmerican football cornerback
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Jennifer HigdonAmerican composer
- Susan SheehanAmerican journalist
- Alfred AustinBritish writer and poet
- Jane GoldmanEnglish screenwriter, author and producer (1970-)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Marco LeonardiItalian actor (born 1971)
- Fred WillardAmerican actor and comedian
- Pablo RagoArgentine actor
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Robert’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312720 (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 Ephemera, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Penn Warren 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 Penn Warren.
Quick answers about Robert Penn Warren’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Penn Warren?
- Robert Penn Warren was a Taurus: born April 24, 1905, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Penn Warren's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1905 birth.
- What was Robert Penn Warren's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Penn Warren's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Penn Warren's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Penn Warren's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
