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, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Roger
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
The SSA recorded 9,174 American boys and 32 girls named Roger in 1942: 25th among boys and 1,466th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roger’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1942, 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 Roger apart
The Pulitzer Prize came in 1975, when Roger Ebert was 33.
Roger Ebert was taught at Urbana High School and UIUC College of Media.
Roger Ebert was 25 when the work began in 1967.
The record gives thyroid cancer as the cause, and Graceland Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: married Chaz Ebert.
Wikipedia files Roger Ebert under Film theorists, Deaths from cancer in Illinois and American film historians.
Paul McCartney 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
- Urbana High School, UIUC College of Media and University of Cape Town
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (1975), Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1975) and Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2011)
- Working from
- 1967
- Cause of death
- thyroid cancer
- Buried at
- Graceland Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 100
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. Working below.
Where Roger sits
Six lines
Roger’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Roger Ebert
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Urbana 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 Urbana that night
Computed for 40.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Urbana at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Urbana sits at 40.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 23% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Urbana, United States
The death is recorded at Chicago, Cook County in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roger Ebert: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Roger's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Leo 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
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
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° to 2.7° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 12°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 29°29′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 29°01′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Roger’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Roger’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Roger
Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.1°N, the sky above Urbana stops at −49.9° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Roger
Other screenwriters
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- Jacques Perrin1941
- David Giler1943
- Hayao Miyazaki1941
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Born in United States
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Born in Horse years
- Ben HorowitzAmerican businessman
- Fish LeongMalaysian singer
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Also born on June 18
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Ally SheedyAmerican actress
- Alex WinterBritish actor
- Kirstie AlleyAmerican actress
Other Gemini Horse charts
- Daniel BrühlGerman actor
- Phillipa SooAmerican actress
- Gena RowlandsAmerican actress
- Kathleen TurnerAmerican actress (born 1954)
Other Tidal Explorers
- Albert ShigaboutdinovRussian businessman
- Marc Ladreit de LacharrièreFrench businessman
- Tupac ShakurAmerican rapper
- Lee Kuan Yew1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Anthony AndersonAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Lily AldridgeAmerican model
- Roseanne BarrAmerican actress and comedian (born 1952)
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Roger’s cards
Computed from June 18, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q212173 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Roger Ebert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Roger Ebert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
