Robin Williams
Robin Williams (born July 21, 1951, Chicago, United States, 13:34; died 2014), was an American actor and comedian. Notable films include Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting and Jumanji. Williams's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Robin Williams’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Robin
Robin Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Robin in the U.S.?
#704
US rank in 2025
~338,913
Americans share it since 1881
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,891 American girls and 957 boys named Robin in 1951: 122nd among girls and 207th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
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Soul Urge · understanding
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Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Robin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Robin apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy came in 1988, when Robin Williams was 37.
Robin Williams was taught at Redwood High School and Durham College.
Robin Williams was 21 when the work began in 1972.
The record gives hanging to death as the cause, and San Francisco Bay as the resting place.
Robin Williams was born to Laura McLaurin and Robert Williams, married Marsha Garces and Susan Schneider and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Robin Williams under American homelessness activists, 2014 suicides and Actors from Marin County, California.
Joseph Lau shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Redwood High School, Durham College and Detroit Country Day School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1988), Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1998) and Disney Legends (2009)
- Nominated for
- Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
- Working from
- 1972
- Cause of death
- hanging to death
- Buried at
- San Francisco Bay
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 161
What the chart says
Robin, according to the stars
Core essence
Robin feels the room before entering it. The core of Robin is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Robin, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Robin is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Robin needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Robin wants to be loved
Robin wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Robin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Robin creates
How Robin makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Robin creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Robin is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Robin is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Robin 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 Robin's birth date. Working below.
Where Robin sits
Six lines
Robin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Robin Williams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Chicago at 13:34, Robin Williams’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, at the documented birth time.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at the birth hour, 83.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 88% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -67° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
- Lived in
- San Francisco · Chicago
Wikidata records San Francisco and Chicago as Robin Williams's home, Chicago among them.
The death is recorded at Paradise Cay, Marin County in 2014.
Against Chicago, Shared Places reads San Francisco as weak for this chart: 37 of 100, 111th of 142 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Asunción, Paraguay, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Robin's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Debater 巨門 in 子
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Generator, profile 2/5
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Mars · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Robin Williams's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What Cancer means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Robin Williams was born on July 21, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Robin Williams's birth date, July 21, 1951, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Robin’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Robin Williams' timed chart: Mercury in the 10th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Robin Williams' timed chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Robin Williams combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Robin’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsextileSaturnseparating · 0.3° orb
Robin’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenussextileUranusapplying · 0.7° orb
Robin’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
MarsconjunctionUranusseparating · 1.1° orb
Robin’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonoppositionVenusapplying · 1.2° orb
VenussextileMarsseparating · 1.7° orb
MoontrineUranusapplying · 1.9° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.9° orb
MarssquareJupiterapplying · 2.0° orb
MoontrineMarsapplying · 3.0° orb
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 3.0° orb
JupiteroppositionNeptuneapplying · 3.0° orb
MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
JupitertrinePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb
MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 5.0° orb
UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Robin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 27°56′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 16°35′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 13°15′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 21°06′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°59′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 1.1°
- Eros square Mars 1.4°
- Eros square Uranus 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Ascendant 3.0°
Robin’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robin’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Robin’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 6 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 12 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 9 | Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 11 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 10 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 5 | Sun, Mars, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 9 | Mercury, Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 10 | Venus, Saturn | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 11 | Neptune | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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One relative of Robin Williams also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Robin
Joseph Lau was born on July 21, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Tidal Strategists
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Robin’s cards
Computed from July 21, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83338 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robin Williams at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robin Williams.
Quick answers about Robin Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robin Williams?
- Robin Williams was a Cancer: born July 21, 1951, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
- What was Robin Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 21, 1951 birth.
- What time was Robin Williams born?
- 13:34 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Robin Williams's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 13:34 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Robin Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robin Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 27°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robin Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 1°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robin Williams's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
