Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert (born June 18, 1942, Urbana, United States; died 2013), was an American film critic and author. Ebert's honours include Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and Order of Lincoln.
Roger Ebert’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Horse, with 
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Roger Ebert’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Roger in the U.S.?
#834
US rank in 2025
~443,830
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Roger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Roger, according to the stars
Core essence
Roger is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Roger needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Roger 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 Roger 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 Roger wants to be loved
Roger wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Roger is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Roger creates
How Roger makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Roger 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: Roger is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Roger 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 Roger 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 Roger's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Roger sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Roger Ebert at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Roger Ebert's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 18, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Roger Ebert was born on June 18, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22The cathedral builder.
Roger Ebert's birth date, June 18, 1942, 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 Roger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roger Ebert's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Roger Ebert combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Roger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Roger Ebert, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° 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.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Roger’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.3° orb
Roger’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileUranus0.5° to 1.1° orb
Roger’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Roger’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
Roger’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° to 2.7° orb
Roger’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranussextilePluto2.3° orb
Roger’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
Roger’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.6° to 4.9° orb
Roger’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb
Roger’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
Roger’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Roger’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.
⚷ ChironLeo 12°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Roger performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 29°29′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Roger is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 29°01′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Roger is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Roger is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Roger that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros trine Sun 2.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres square Sun 2.7°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.9°
- Eros square Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Roger’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Roger 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 Roger’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, 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.
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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roger Ebert, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Roger
Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Roger’s cards
Every card is computed from June 18, 1942, 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 Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Roger Ebert, 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
Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q212173, 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 Sound Opinions, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roger Ebert at Wikipedia, rogerebert.com, IMDb and X.
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 Roger Ebert.
Quick answers about Roger Ebert’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roger Ebert?
- Roger Ebert was a Gemini: born June 18, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- What was Roger Ebert's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 18, 1942 birth.
- What time was Roger Ebert 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 Roger Ebert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the June 18, 1942 birth date.
- What was Roger Ebert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 18, 1942 birth date.
- Where was Roger Ebert's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roger Ebert's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
