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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Roddy
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.?
#8115
US rank in 2025
~2,541
Americans share it since 1914
1960
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1958, Roddy came 1,233rd, carried by 40 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roddy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roddy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Roddy apart
Enrique Iglesias (1975) and David Attenborough (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Roddy sits
Six lines
Roddy’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 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.
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 Roddy Doyle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dublin 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 Dublin that night
Computed for 53.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Dublin at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 53.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dublin at all: they sit past the −36.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -0° below the horizon, Moon down and 68% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Roddy's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet 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 →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Capricorn 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.0° to 5.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 29°05′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 6°19′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°54′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 8°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Roddy’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Roddy’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.
- 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°
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- Katie TaylorIrish association footballer and boxer
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More charts like Roddy’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Rachel ZeglerAmerican actress
- George Tupou V of TongaKing of Tonga
- Grace JonesJamaican singer, model and actress
Born in Dog years
- Johnny DevenanzioAmerican reality television personality
- Bobby BerkAmerican interior designer and reality television personality
- Julie BowenAmerican actress (born 1970)
Also born on May 8
- Enrique Iglesias1975
- David Attenborough1926
- Pat Cummins1993
- Trisha Paytas1988
- Stephen Amell1981
- Olivia Culpo1992
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Angela BassettAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Fantasia BarrinoAmerican singer
- Selma BlairAmerican actress (born 1972)
Other Taurus Dog charts
- Melania TrumpFirst Lady of the United States
- Dorothy HodgkinBritish chemist
- Uma ThurmanAmerican actress and model
- Kirsten DunstAmerican actress
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Ricki LakeAmerican television host and actress (born 1968)
- The MizAmerican professional wrestler, actor and television personality (born 1980)
- Billie LourdAmerican actress
- Janelle MonáeAmerican singer and actress (born 1985)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Nigel FarageBritish politician
- Rami MalekAmerican actor
- Tyra BanksAmerican television personality, producer, and former model
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Roddy’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roddy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73506 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Roddy Doyle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Roddy Doyle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
