Robert Southey
Robert Southey (born August 12, 1774, Bristol, United Kingdom; died 1843), was an English romantic poet. Southey served as member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
Robert Southey’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Southey’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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
US name records start in 1880, 106 years after this birth. In that first year Robert ranked 10th among boys and 515th among girls, with 2,415 American boys and 12 girls registered.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The record
What sets Robert apart
Erwin Schrödinger (1887) and George Soros (1930) 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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Robert is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Robert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Robert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Robert is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Robert does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Southey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bristol 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 Bristol that night
Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Bristol at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 3.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Bristol sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bristol on any night.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon up and 28% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Robert Southey at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Robert Southey's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1774, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Horse
Wood HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Robert Southey was born on August 12, 1774, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Robert Southey's birth date, August 12, 1774, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Southey's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Robert Southey combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° 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
stableVenussextileJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb
Robert’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.1° to 1.8° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Robert’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° orb
stableNeptunetrinePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.6° to 5.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°27′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 26°46′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°41′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°27′ (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 conjunction Mars 0.7°
- Chiron square Venus 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.5°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°
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Robert’s cards
Computed from August 12, 1774. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216838 (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 John James Masquerier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Southey at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Southey.
Quick answers about Robert Southey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Southey?
- Robert Southey was a Leo: born August 12, 1774, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Southey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1774 birth.
- What was Robert Southey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Southey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Southey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Southey's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
