Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (born March 16, 1908, New York City, United States; died 1966), was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Rossen's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Writers Guild of America Award and Directors Guild of America Award.
Robert Rossen’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Rossen’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 4,219 American boys and 26 girls named Robert in 1908: 5th among boys and 765th 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
22
Soul Urge · legacy
11
Personality · perceptive
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
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Golden Globe Award for Best Director came in 1949, when Robert Rossen was 41.
Study took Robert Rossen to New York University.
Robert Rossen was 24 when the work began in 1932.
The record gives disease as the cause, and Westchester Hills Cemetery as the resting place.
Wikipedia files Robert Rossen under Robert Meltzer Award winners, Jewish anti-fascists and Burials at Westchester Hills Cemetery.
Mark Carney (1965) and Alexandra Daddario (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New York University
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director (1949)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 1932
- Cause of death
- disease
- Buried at
- Westchester Hills Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Robert is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Robert is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Robert creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Robert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Robert leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Robert is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 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 Rossen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 7.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1966.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Rossen: 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
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Pisces · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Robert Rossen's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 16, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Robert Rossen was born on March 16, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Robert Rossen's birth date, March 16, 1908, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Rossen's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Rossen combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarstrineUranus0.6° to 1.2° orb
Robert’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.9° to 4.1° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.3° to 12.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 20°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 14°17′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 19°27′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°54′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.5°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.9°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 2.0°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.1°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.2°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
More people like Robert
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Born in United States
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- Thurgood MarshallAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991
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Fellow Pisces suns
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- Taylor Marie HillAmerican model
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Born in Monkey years
- Tony ScottBritish film director and producer
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- Rachel GriffithsAustralian actress
Also born on March 16
- Mark Carney1965
- Alexandra Daddario1986
- Alexander McQueen1969
- Lauren Graham1967
- Joel Embiid1994
- Jhené Aiko1988
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Vanessa WilliamsAmerican actress, singer and former Miss America (born 1963)
- Shaun WhiteAmerican snowboarder and skateboarder
- Bellamy YoungAmerican actress
Other Pisces Monkey charts
- Dennis FarinaAmerican actor
- Moira KellyAmerican actress (b. 1968)
- Sean BridgersAmerican actor and director
- Anna MagnaniItalian actress
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Pyotr KapitsaSoviet physicist
- Otto DielsGerman chemist
- Peter MedawarEnglish-brazilian biologist
- Brian KobilkaAmerican physiologist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Hume CronynCanadian-American actor
- Antonio RüdigerGerman association football player (born 1993)
- Aymeric LaporteSpanish-French footballer (born 1994)
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Robert’s cards
Computed from March 16, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q433113 (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 Trailer at TCM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Rossen at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Rossen.
Quick answers about Robert Rossen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Rossen?
- Robert Rossen was a Pisces: born March 16, 1908, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Rossen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 16, 1908 birth.
- What was Robert Rossen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Rossen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Rossen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Rossen's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
