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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Robert
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
Robert ranked 1st among boys and 320th among girls in 1930, the year of this birth, with 62,153 American boys and 426 girls on the register.
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). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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
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
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 1930, 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
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Wyoming.
Wikipedia's editors put Robert Roripaugh under University of Wyoming faculty, People from Oxnard, California and Poets laureate of Wyoming.
Mother Teresa (1910) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wyoming
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
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.
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 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.
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 Roripaugh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oxnard 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 Oxnard that night
Computed for 34.19°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Oxnard was Sulafat, in Lyra, 84.4° up.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 34.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 13% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oxnard, United States
The death is recorded at Laramie, Albany County in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Roripaugh: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Libra 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
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
stableSuntrineSaturn2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°55′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 19°43′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus or Gemini during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 21°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.5°
Robert’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Robert’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 2.0°
More people like Robert
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- Louis Simpson1923
- Steve Mason1940
- Roald Dahl1916
- Joseph Bathanti1953
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Born in United States
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- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
- John James Rickard MacleodNobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
Born in Horse years
- Derek BartonEnglish organic chemist
- Didier QuelozSwiss astronomer
- Bertram BrockhouseCanadian physicist
Also born on August 26
- Mother Teresa1910
- Antoine Lavoisier1743
- Chris Pine1980
- Macaulay Culkin1980
- Katherine Johnson1918
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Robert’s cards
Computed from August 26, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37904541 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Roripaugh.
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.
- 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 was Robert Roripaugh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Roripaugh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
