Robert Ward
Robert Ward (born September 13, 1917, Cleveland, United States; died 2013), was an American composer. Ward is best remembered for The Crucible. Ward's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Bronze Star Medal.
Robert Ward’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Ward’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 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, 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
In 1917, 35,220 American boys and 168 girls were registered Robert — 4th among boys and 515th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
22 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Robert apart
Roald Dahl (1916) and Niall Horan (1993) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Robert is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Robert needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Robert gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Robert creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Robert is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Robert fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Ward
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Cleveland at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Cleveland sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cleveland on any night.
The Moon, 5% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 2 planets 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 Ward at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Robert Ward's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Robert Ward was born on September 13, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Robert Ward's birth date, September 13, 1917, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Ward's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert Ward 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 14° to 26° Leo 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
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.0° to 5.9° orb
Robert’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
Robert’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.0° orb
Robert’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.3° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.8° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.4° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.7° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 3.7° to 15.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 4.7° to 16.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 27°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 20°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°23′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 27°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.2°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.0°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 2.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.8°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.9°
More people like Robert
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- Morton Gould1913
- John La Montaine1920
- Alwin Nikolais1910
- Hank Williams1923
- Benny Carter1907
- Leon Kirchner1919
Born in United States
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- William Standish KnowlesAmerican chemist
- Ira B. Harkey Jr.American journalist
- Barry NelsonAmerican actor
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More charts like Robert’s
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on September 13
- Roald Dahl1916
- Niall Horan1993
- Tyler Perry1969
- Stella McCartney1971
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Ellie GouldingEnglish singer and songwriter
- Millie Bobby BrownBritish actress
- Saoirse RonanIrish-American actress
Other Virgo Snake charts
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- Ernesto Teodoro MonetaItalian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Óscar Arias SánchezPresident of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)
- David S. BroderAmerican Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Other Steadfast Explorers
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Famous people with Life Path 22
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Robert’s cards
Computed from September 13, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1695243 (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 National Endowment for the Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Ward at Wikipedia 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 Ward.
Quick answers about Robert Ward’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Ward?
- Robert Ward was a Virgo: born September 13, 1917, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Ward's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1917 birth.
- What was Robert Ward's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Ward's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Ward's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Ward's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
