Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan (born March 19, 1953, Chapel Hill, United States), aged 73, is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Schenkkan's honours include Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Robert Schenkkan’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Schenkkan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
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) × mutable 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 86,243 American boys and 228 girls named Robert in 1953: 1st among boys and 589th 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
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
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 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
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 1953, 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 Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1992, when Robert Schenkkan was 39.
Robert Schenkkan was taught at Austin High School and Cornell University.
The family line: born to Robert Schenkkan and married Maria Dahvana Headley.
Wikipedia files Robert Schenkkan under Dramatists and playwrights from North Carolina, People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Male actors from Austin, Texas.
Bruce Willis (1955) and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Austin High School, Cornell University and University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1992) and Tony Award for Best Play (2014)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
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.
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 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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: 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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Schenkkan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chapel Hill 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 Chapel Hill that night
Computed for 35.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Chapel Hill at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Chapel Hill sits at 35.9°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 −54.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 27% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree · 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.
Score your own chart →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Robert Schenkkan's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 19, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Robert Schenkkan was born on March 19, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Robert Schenkkan's birth date, March 19, 1953, 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 Schenkkan's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Robert Schenkkan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 3.1° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.8° orb
Robert’s affections and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
Robert’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 20°01′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 13°10′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 6°11′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°17′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.3°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 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.
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.3°
Robert’s family here
One relative of Robert Schenkkan also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Robert’s cards
Computed from March 19, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2158716 (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 Jay Godwin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Schenkkan 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 Schenkkan.
Quick answers about Robert Schenkkan’s chart
- How old is Robert Schenkkan?
- Robert Schenkkan is 73 years old, born March 19, 1953 in Chapel Hill, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Schenkkan?
- Robert Schenkkan is a Pisces: born March 19, 1953, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert Schenkkan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 19, 1953 birth.
- What is Robert Schenkkan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert Schenkkan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert Schenkkan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Schenkkan's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
