Robert Reed
Robert Reed (born October 9, 1956, Omaha, United States), aged 70, is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author (born 1956). Reed is best known for The Well of Stars and Marrow. Reed's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel.
Robert Reed’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Reed’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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
The SSA recorded 83,924 American boys and 214 girls named Robert in 1956: 3rd among boys and 658th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The record
What sets Robert apart
John Lennon (1940) and Boris Nemtsov (1959) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Robert is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Robert needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Robert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Robert is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Robert slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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 Reed
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Omaha 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 Omaha that night
Computed for 41.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Omaha at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Omaha sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Omaha at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon up and 34% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 3 planets at a critical degree · Mars retrograde
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Robert Reed's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Robert Reed was born on October 9, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Robert Reed's birth date, October 9, 1956, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Reed's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Reed combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius 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
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Robert’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb
Robert’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.9° to 1.5° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussquareSaturn3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 13°19′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°38′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 21°36′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.1°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.9°
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Robert’s cards
Computed from October 9, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1857523 (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.
The same Robert Reed at Wikipedia 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 Reed.
Quick answers about Robert Reed’s chart
- How old is Robert Reed?
- Robert Reed is 70 years old, born October 9, 1956 in Omaha, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Reed?
- Robert Reed is a Libra: born October 9, 1956, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Reed's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1956 birth.
- What is Robert Reed's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Reed's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Reed's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Reed's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
