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Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (born January 29, 1866, Clamecy, France; died 1944), was a French author. Rolland is best remembered for Péguy, The life of Toistoi and Jean-Christophe. Rolland's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Prix Femina and Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française.

Romain Rolland’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Romain Rolland’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 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Romain in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~541

Americans share it since 1911

1990

its peak year

US records hold Romain from 1911 onward, though not for 1880 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1990 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Romain’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Romain’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

The record

What sets Romain apart

Oprah Winfrey (1954) and Olga Tokarczuk (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Romain, according to the stars

Core essence

Romain is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Romain is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Romain is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Romain needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Romain wants to be loved

Romain wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Romain be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Romain creates

How Romain makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Romain builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Romain is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Romain 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Romain does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Romain's birth date. Working below.

Where Romain sits

Six lines

Romain’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Romain

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Romain

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Romain

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Romain

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Romain

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Romain

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clamecy on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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The sky over Clamecy that night

Computed for 47.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Clamecy was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 87.0° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 47.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Clamecy at all: they sit past the −42.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.

How unusual Romain's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet · 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.

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Romain Rolland in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Romain Rolland's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 29, 1866, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Romain Rolland's birth date, January 29, 1866, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Romain’s chart

Romain’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.1° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 2.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 9°25′☉9°Moon in Cancer · 22°23′☽22°Mercury in Capricorn · 19°32′☿19°Venus in Aquarius · 2°43′♀2°Mars in Capricorn · 16°59′♂16°Jupiter in Capricorn · 16°59′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 11°56′♄11°Uranus in Cancer · 0°27′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Aries · 8°16′♆8°Pluto in Taurus · 12°15′♇12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Romain’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.3° orb

    Romain’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Romain’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto4.3° to 5.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.6° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Romain’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 16°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 29°11′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 21°15′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 1°06′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.8°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Venus 1.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.7°

Romain’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Romain’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Saturn, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.3°

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Romain’s cards

Computed from January 29, 1866. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Romain’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q47162 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Romain Rolland 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 Romain Rolland.

Quick answers about Romain Rolland’s chart

What zodiac sign was Romain Rolland?
Romain Rolland was an Aquarius: born January 29, 1866, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Romain Rolland's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 29, 1866 birth.
What was Romain Rolland's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Romain Rolland's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Romain Rolland's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Romain Rolland's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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