Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935, Brooklyn, United States), aged 91, is an American speculative fiction writer and editor (born 1935). Silverberg is best known for Treasures beneath the sea, Good News from the Vatican and Dying Inside. Silverberg's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Robert Silverberg’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dog, with 
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Robert Silverberg’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Robert is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Robert needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Robert be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Robert is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Robert fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Robert Silverberg's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 15, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Robert Silverberg was born on January 15, 1935, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Robert Silverberg's birth date, January 15, 1935, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Silverberg's date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Robert Silverberg combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Silverberg, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Gemini 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.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Robert’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb
Robert’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus2.4° to 3.4° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Robert’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.2° orb
Robert’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
Robert’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their depths.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.8° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysquareUranusorb from 6.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 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 ℞Gemini 5°00′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Robert turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 25°18′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Robert is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°53′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Robert attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaPisces 9°55′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Robert needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Robert is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.2°
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. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Robert is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Uranus · Sun, Pluto, UranusAn 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 biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Silverberg, 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 January 15, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Silverberg, 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 Q314553, 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.
Portrait by Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Silverberg at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Robert Silverberg.
Quick answers about Robert Silverberg’s chart
- How old is Robert Silverberg?
- Robert Silverberg is 91 years old, born January 15, 1935 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Silverberg?
- Robert Silverberg is a Capricorn: born January 15, 1935, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dog.
- What is Robert Silverberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 15, 1935 birth.
- What time was Robert Silverberg 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 is Robert Silverberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 15, 1935 birth date.
- What is Robert Silverberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 15, 1935 birth date.
- Where is Robert Silverberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Silverberg's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
