Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born August 18, 1936, Santa Monica, United States, 20:02; died 2025), was an American actor and director.
Robert Redford’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
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Robert Redford’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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
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
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Robert apart
Edward Norton (1969) and Patrick Swayze (1952) 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 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.
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 attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Robert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Robert is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Robert fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Robert Redford's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Robert Redford was born on August 18, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Robert Redford's birth date, August 18, 1936, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Robert Redford's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Venus in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 1st house and Neptune in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Redford's timed chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Robert Redford 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
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenustrineUranusseparating · 0.4° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
MoonconjunctionMercuryseparating · 1.0° orb
Robert’s feelings and mind act as one.
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 1.1° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 1.6° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb
Robert’s mind and imagination act as one.
MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.6° orb
Robert’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 3.5° orb
Robert’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 3.5° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssquareUranusapplying · 3.9° orb
Robert’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonsquareJupiterseparating · 4.6° orb
Robert’s feelings grind against their growth.
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 4.7° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their growth.
SaturnoppositionNeptuneapplying · 5.1° orb
Robert’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb
Robert’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 6.2° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 6.2° orb
Robert’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 6.9° orb
Robert’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.9° orb
Robert’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 22°15′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Robert turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°26′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Robert is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 2°58′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Robert is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°58′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Robert is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 24°53′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Robert that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.1°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.9°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 3.0°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Venus, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune11 pts
rules the Ascendant, Pisces; disposes Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 6 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter10.5 pts
traditionally rules the Ascendant, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; angular in the tenth house; 5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Robert is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
Stellium in Virgo · Moon, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Moon, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Moon semi-square Mars 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Robert’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 7 | Saturn | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 6 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 7 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 7 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 7 | Pluto | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 6 | Sun, Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 7 | Moon, Mercury, Venus, Neptune | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 7 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 10 | Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 3 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from August 18, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q59215, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 U.S. Embassy photographer JP Evans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Redford at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Redford’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Redford?
- Robert Redford was a Leo: born August 18, 1936, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Robert Redford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 18, 1936 birth.
- What time was Robert Redford born?
- 20:02 local time in Santa Monica, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Robert Redford's rising sign?
- Pisces rising, calculated from the documented 20:02 birth time in Santa Monica, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall was Robert Redford?
- Robert Redford was 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Robert Redford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 18, 1936 birth date.
- What was Robert Redford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 18, 1936 birth time.
- Where was Robert Redford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 24°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Redford's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Venus, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
