Robert Roripaugh
Robert Roripaugh (born August 26, 1930, Oxnard, United States; died 2018), was an American poet. Roripaugh served as Wyoming Poet Laureate.
Robert Roripaugh’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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Robert Roripaugh’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
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Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Robert is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Robert needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Robert gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Robert creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Robert is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Robert scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Robert Roripaugh's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Robert Roripaugh was born on August 26, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Robert Roripaugh's birth date, August 26, 1930, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Roripaugh's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Roripaugh combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Roripaugh, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Robert’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquarePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.8° to 2.1° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.1° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.1° orb
Robert’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.8° to 3.9° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
Robert’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarssextileNeptune4.0° to 4.6° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.9° to 5.8° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their growth.
stableUranussquarePluto5.4° orb
Robert’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°55′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Robert building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 19°43′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Robert is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosTaurus or Gemini during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Robert wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Robert needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 21°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Robert at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.5°
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 and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 3 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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Pluto · Venus, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Roripaugh, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from August 26, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Roripaugh, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37904541, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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.
The same Robert Roripaugh at Wikipedia.
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 Roripaugh’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Roripaugh?
- Robert Roripaugh was a Virgo: born August 26, 1930, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was Robert Roripaugh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1930 birth.
- What time was Robert Roripaugh born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Robert Roripaugh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 26, 1930 birth date.
- What was Robert Roripaugh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 26, 1930 birth date.
- Where was Robert Roripaugh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Roripaugh's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
