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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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.?
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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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
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
No documented birth time exists for Robert Ward, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Leo 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.
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
Robert’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars3.9° to 4.4° orb
Robert’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.3° to 5.2° orb
Robert’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.8° orb
Robert’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.8° orb
Robert’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineUranus5.4° to 6.6° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
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
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 ℞Pisces 27°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Robert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 20°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Robert is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°23′ (moves 0.47° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 27°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Robert is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Robert exacting with themselves first.
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 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°
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
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
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Ward, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from September 13, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Robert Ward, 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 Q1695243, 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 National Endowment for the Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Ward at Wikipedia 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- 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 time was Robert Ward 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 Ward's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 13, 1917 birth date.
- What was Robert Ward's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 13, 1917 birth date.
- 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.
