Robert W. Holley
Robert W. Holley (born January 28, 1922, Urbana, United States; died 1993), was an American biochemist. Holley's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, NAS Award in Molecular Biology and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Robert W. Holley’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert W. Holley’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Robert ranked 2nd among boys and 439th among girls in 1922, the year of this birth, with 53,796 American boys and 237 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
22
Soul Urge · legacy
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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
Robert W. Holley took the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1965, at 43.
Urbana High School and Weill Cornell Medicine shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.
Wikipedia's editors put Robert W. Holley under Salk Institute for Biological Studies people, Weill Cornell Medical College alumni and History of biotechnology.
Elijah Wood (1981) and Carlos Slim (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Urbana High School, Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1968), NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1967) and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1965)
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Robert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Robert needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Robert creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Robert runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 W. Holley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Urbana on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Urbana that night
Computed for 40.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Urbana at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Urbana, United States
- Lived in
- Urbana
Wikidata records Urbana as Robert W. Holley's home, Urbana among them.
The death is recorded at Los Gatos, Santa Clara County in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert W. Holley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Robert W. Holley's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 28, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Robert W. Holley was born on January 28, 1922, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Robert W. Holley's birth date, January 28, 1922, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert W. Holley's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert W. Holley combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Aquarius 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
stableSuntrineSaturn0.1° to 1.1° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.5° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranustrinePluto0.6° orb
Robert’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.0° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn1.6° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.2° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 2.8° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°07′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 4°55′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 19°50′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 0°29′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 2°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Venus 0.4°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.6°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.4°
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Robert’s cards
Computed from January 28, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108891 (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 Sol Goldberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert W. Holley at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Robert W. Holley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert W. Holley?
- Robert W. Holley was an Aquarius: born January 28, 1922, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert W. Holley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 28, 1922 birth.
- What was Robert W. Holley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert W. Holley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert W. Holley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert W. Holley's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
