Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born May 8, 1958, Dublin, Ireland), aged 68, is an Irish author. Doyle is best known for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van and The Commitments. Doyle's honours include Booker Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and AWB Vincent Literary Award.
Roddy Doyle’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dog, with 
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Roddy Doyle’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Roddy in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~2,541
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
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Roddy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Roddy, according to the stars
Core essence
Roddy is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Roddy is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Roddy 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 Roddy needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Roddy wants to be loved
Roddy wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Roddy creates
How Roddy makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Roddy creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Roddy 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Roddy is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Roddy slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Roddy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Roddy sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Roddy Doyle at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Roddy Doyle's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Roddy Doyle was born on May 8, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Roddy Doyle's birth date, May 8, 1958, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Roddy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roddy Doyle's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Roddy Doyle combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Roddy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Roddy Doyle, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° 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.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.7° orb
Roddy’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.6° orb
Roddy’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.0° orb
Roddy’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.9° to 2.6° orb
Roddy’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Roddy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus4.0° to 5.1° orb
Roddy’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
Roddy’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.7° orb
Roddy’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
Roddy’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 17.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Roddy’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Roddy making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 29°05′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Roddy is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 6°19′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Roddy is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°54′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Roddy is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 8°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Roddy carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.4°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.3°
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°).
Roddy’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Roddy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Roddy’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.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roddy Doyle, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Roddy’s cards
Every card is computed from May 8, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Roddy Doyle, 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
Roddy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73506, 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 Christoph Rieger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roddy Doyle at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Roddy Doyle.
Quick answers about Roddy Doyle’s chart
- How old is Roddy Doyle?
- Roddy Doyle is 68 years old, born May 8, 1958 in Dublin, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Roddy Doyle?
- Roddy Doyle is a Taurus: born May 8, 1958, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
- What is Roddy Doyle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1958 birth.
- What time was Roddy Doyle 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 is Roddy Doyle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 8, 1958 birth date.
- What is Roddy Doyle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 8, 1958 birth date.
- Where is Roddy Doyle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roddy Doyle's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
