Robert S. Mulliken
Robert S. Mulliken (born June 7, 1896, Newburyport, United States; died 1986), was an American physicist, chemist and botanical collector. Mulliken is best remembered for molecular orbital theory. Mulliken's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Willard Gibbs Award and Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry.
Robert S. Mulliken’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert S. Mulliken’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
Robert ranked 8th among boys and 592nd among girls in 1896, the year of this birth, with 2,719 American boys and 28 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.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2).
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
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets Robert apart
Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Prince (1958) 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Robert needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Robert like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Robert creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Robert gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 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 S. Mulliken
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newburyport 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 Newburyport that night
Computed for 42.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Newburyport at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Newburyport at all: they sit past the −47.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 11% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Gemini · Yod onto Saturn · No Earth planets
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Robert S. Mulliken's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Robert S. Mulliken was born on June 7, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Robert S. Mulliken's birth date, June 7, 1896, 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 S. Mulliken's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert S. Mulliken 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 29° to 11° Aries or Taurus 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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb
Robert’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.6° to 5.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter5.8° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 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 ℞Libra 20°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 29°18′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 5°19′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 25°21′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°18′ (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 sextile Venus 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.2°
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Also born on June 7
- Orhan Pamuk1952
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- Iggy Azalea1990
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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Other Gemini Monkey charts
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Other Gilded Storytellers
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Robert’s cards
Computed from June 7, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233355 (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 GFHund, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Robert S. Mulliken’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert S. Mulliken?
- Robert S. Mulliken was a Gemini: born June 7, 1896, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert S. Mulliken's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1896 birth.
- What was Robert S. Mulliken's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert S. Mulliken's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert S. Mulliken's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert S. Mulliken's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
