Robert Plant
Robert Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, United Kingdom), aged 78, is an English musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin. Best-known releases include Raising Sand, Pictures at Eleven and Dreamland. Plant's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Silver Clef Award.
Robert Plant’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Plant’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire 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 1948, Robert came 2nd among boys and 581st among girls, carried by 85,478 American boys and 209 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Plant took the Americana Award for Duo/Group of the Year in 2008, at 60.
The classrooms behind this chart: King Edward VI College, Stourbridge.
The working life starts in 1963, at 15.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Robert Plant: Musicians from Worcestershire, English Romani people and Band of Joy members.
Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
- Instruments
- harmonica and voice
- Awards
- Americana Award for Duo/Group of the Year (2008)
- Working from
- 1963
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Robert is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Robert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Robert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Robert fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Robert Plant
Three stars chosen from the real sky above West Bromwich 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 West Bromwich that night
Computed for 52.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at West Bromwich was Eltanin, in Draco, 88.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 52.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −37.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from West Bromwich on any night.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Robert Plant's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Robert Plant was born on August 20, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Robert Plant's birth date, August 20, 1948, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Plant's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Robert Plant combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.0° to 5.6° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.6° to 1.4° orb
Robert’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.4° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileUranus1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.2° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.5° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 2.5° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 3.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 19°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 19°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 11°22′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 11°04′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.6°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, PlutoThree 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 Venus 0.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.0°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.2°
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- Andrew Garfield1983
- Amy Adams1974
- N. R. Narayana Murthy1946
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- Lee Jung-hoo1998
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- Master KGMusic artist and producer
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Other Leo Rat charts
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Other Radiant Architects
- Josh Palmercanadian-born American football wide receiver
- Dameon PierceAmerican football player (born 2000)
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Paul WalkerAmerican actor
- Lev LandauSoviet theoretical physicist
- Mick JaggerBritish singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
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Robert’s cards
Computed from August 20, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q428223 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Plant at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Plant.
Quick answers about Robert Plant’s chart
- How old is Robert Plant?
- Robert Plant is 78 years old, born August 20, 1948 in West Bromwich, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Plant?
- Robert Plant is a Leo: born August 20, 1948, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Plant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1948 birth.
- What is Robert Plant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Plant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Plant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Plant's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
