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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Horse, with 
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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
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Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Robert sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Robert Southey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Libra 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.
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
Robert’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.9° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunetrinePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Robert’s imagination flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.3° orb
Robert’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Aries 12°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Robert may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°27′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Robert caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosVirgo 26°46′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Robert is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°41′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Robert needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Robert guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Robert is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Southey, 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 August 12, 1774, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Robert Southey, 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 Q216838, 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 John James Masquerier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Southey 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse.
- 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 time was Robert Southey 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 was Robert Southey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 12, 1774 birth date.
- What was Robert Southey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 12, 1774 birth date.
- 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.
