Rod Laver
Rod Laver (born Rodney George Laver; August 9, 1938, Rockhampton, Australia), aged 88, is an Australian tennis player. Laver has played for Australia Davis Cup team. Laver's honours include International Tennis Hall of Fame, Companion of the Order of Australia and Australian Tennis Hall of Fame.
Rod Laver’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Rod Laver’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
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Rod’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Rod, according to the stars
Core essence
Rod is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Rod 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, Rod is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Rod needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Rod wants to be loved
Rod 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 Rod and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Rod creates
How Rod makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Rod creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Rod is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Rod is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Rod 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 Rod's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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Rod Laver in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Rod Laver's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1938, 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.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Rod Laver was born on August 9, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Rod Laver's birth date, August 9, 1938, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Rod’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rod Laver's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, 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.
- Rod Laver combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Rod’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Rod Laver, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Capricorn 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.
stableVenussextilePluto0.3° to 1.4° orb
Rod’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus1.4° to 2.4° orb
Rod’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb
Rod’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.9° orb
Rod’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.6° to 5.0° orb
Rod’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercurytrineUranus6.5° to 6.9° orb
Rod’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 2.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 2.3° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 5.2° to 16.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Rod’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°44′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Rod is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 22°08′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Rod is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 2°11′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Rod is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLibra 9°46′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Rod is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Rod is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros square Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.9°
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°).
Rod’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. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Rod is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Rod’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.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
Yod onto Jupiter · Venus, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rod Laver, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Rod’s cards
Every card is computed from August 9, 1938, 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 Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Rod Laver, 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
Rod’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105550, 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 Evers, Joost / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rod Laver at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Rod Laver.
Quick answers about Rod Laver’s chart
- How old is Rod Laver?
- Rod Laver is 88 years old, born August 9, 1938 in Rockhampton, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Rod Laver?
- Rod Laver is a Leo: born August 9, 1938, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- What is Rod Laver's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1938 birth.
- What time was Rod Laver 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.
- How tall is Rod Laver?
- Rod Laver is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Rod Laver's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 9, 1938 birth date.
- What is Rod Laver's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 9, 1938 birth date.
- Where is Rod Laver's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rod Laver's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
