Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose (born August 8, 1931, Colchester, United Kingdom), aged 95, is an English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher. Penrose is best known for The Emperor's New Mind, Penrose diagram and Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems. Penrose's honours include Order of Merit, De Morgan Medal and Adams Prize.
Roger Penrose’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Goat, with 
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Roger Penrose’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · 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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Roger 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.
How Roger wants to be loved
Roger wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Roger openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Roger creates
How Roger 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. Roger 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: Roger is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Roger is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Roger fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Roger Penrose's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1931, 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.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Roger Penrose was born on August 8, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Roger Penrose's birth date, August 8, 1931, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Roger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roger Penrose's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Roger Penrose combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Roger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Roger Penrose, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMoonsquareNeptune0.0° to 6.9° orb
Roger’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.5° to 0.9° orb
Roger’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.1° to 2.1° orb
Roger’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb
Roger’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableUranussquarePluto1.8° orb
Roger’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars2.1° to 2.7° orb
Roger’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
Roger’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrineUranus3.9° to 4.9° orb
Roger’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.4° to 6.4° orb
Roger’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune7.1° to 8.0° orb
Roger’s mind and imagination act as one.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Roger building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 19°43′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Roger is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 8°26′ (moves 0.55° 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. Roger is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 24°31′ (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 LilithAries 0°09′ (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 Roger 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.
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.6°
- Eros square Venus 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 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°).
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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Roger 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 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 Leo · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 Neptune 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roger Penrose, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Roger’s cards
Every card is computed from August 8, 1931, 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 Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Roger Penrose, 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 Q193803, 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 Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roger Penrose at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Roger Penrose.
Quick answers about Roger Penrose’s chart
- How old is Roger Penrose?
- Roger Penrose is 95 years old, born August 8, 1931 in Colchester, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Roger Penrose?
- Roger Penrose is a Leo: born August 8, 1931, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Goat.
- What is Roger Penrose's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1931 birth.
- What time was Roger Penrose 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 Roger Penrose's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1931 birth date.
- What is Roger Penrose's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1931 birth date.
- Where is Roger Penrose's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roger Penrose's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
