Roger Reynolds
Roger Reynolds (born July 18, 1934, Detroit, United States), aged 92, is an American composer (born 1934). Reynolds's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Fulbright Scholarship and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Roger Reynolds’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Roger
Roger Reynolds’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, 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
Roger ranked 39th among boys and 1,825th among girls in 1934, the year of this birth, with 4,766 American boys and 19 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roger’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The record
What sets Roger apart
Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Roger, according to the stars
Core essence
Roger feels the room before entering it. The core of Roger is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Roger, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Roger cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Roger needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Roger wants to be loved
Roger wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Roger like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Roger creates
How Roger makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Roger creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Roger 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Roger is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Roger does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 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 Reynolds
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Rastaban, in Draco, 73.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon up and 43% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Roger's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Cancer · No Fire planets
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Roger Reynolds's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Roger Reynolds was born on July 18, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Roger Reynolds's birth date, July 18, 1934, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Roger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roger Reynolds' date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Roger Reynolds combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Roger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Libra 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
stableMarssextileUranus0.3° to 0.9° orb
Roger’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.4° to 0.8° orb
Roger’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.6° to 1.5° orb
Roger’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune4.1° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.6° to 5.3° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.5° to 6.4° orb
stableUranussquarePluto7.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 4.7° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Roger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 8°03′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 24°25′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 25°23′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 3°03′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.0°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.4°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.5°
Roger’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Pluto
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Roger’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.6°
More people like Roger
Other composers
- John Corigliano1938
- Yehudi Wyner1929
- Merle Haggard1937
- George Crumb1929
- David Del Tredici1937
- Berry Gordy1929
Born in United States
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- Roland FlintAmerican writer and academic
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Dog years
- Alec BaldwinAmerican actor (born 1958)
- Alice EveBritish actress
- Anthony AndersonAmerican actor (born 1970)
Also born on July 18
- Nelson Mandela1918
- Priyanka Chopra1982
- Kristen Bell1980
- Richard Branson1950
- Elsa Pataky1976
- Noah Lyles1997
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Allvar GullstrandSwedish ophthalmologist
- John Hasbrouck Van VleckAmerican physicist
- Hans Georg DehmeltGerman physicist
Other Cancer Dog charts
- Ryan CabreraAmerican musician
- Jim EdmondsAmerican baseball player
- Danny GloverAmerican actor (born 1946)
- Colin JostAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1982)
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Jesse Lynch WilliamsAmerican dramatist
- Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist
- Bernard BailynAmerican historian
- Zhou LongChinese-American composer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Leonard MillerCanadian basketball player (born 2003)
- Hugo GonzálezSpanish basketball player (born 2006)
- Luguentz DortCanadian basketball player (born 1999)
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Roger’s cards
Computed from July 18, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q673278 (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 Roger Reynolds, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roger Reynolds at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roger Reynolds.
Quick answers about Roger Reynolds’s chart
- How old is Roger Reynolds?
- Roger Reynolds is 92 years old, born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Roger Reynolds?
- Roger Reynolds is a Cancer: born July 18, 1934, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Roger Reynolds's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1934 birth.
- What is Roger Reynolds's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Roger Reynolds's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Roger Reynolds's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roger Reynolds's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Pluto). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
