What zodiac sign was Roy J. Glauber?

Roy J. Glauber was a Virgo: born September 1, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.

What was Roy J. Glauber's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1925 birth.

What was Roy J. Glauber's Life Path number?

Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.

What was Roy J. Glauber's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Roy J. Glauber's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Roy J. Glauber's dominant planet?

Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Roy J. Glauber

Roy J. Glauber (born September 1, 1925, New York City, United States; died 2018), was an American theoretical physicist. Glauber's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Humboldt Prize and Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Roy J. Glauber’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

Your match with Roy

Roy J. Glauber’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#525

US rank in 2025

~411,331

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1925, Roy came 32nd among boys and 1,046th among girls, carried by 6,376 American boys and 53 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Roy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · direction and scale

Soul Urge · being needed

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7).

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

Roy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Roy apart

Roy J. Glauber took the Albert A. Michelson Medal in 1985, at 60.

Bronx High School of Science and Harvard University shaped the training.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Roy J. Glauber: Honorary members of Optica (society), People from Arlington, Massachusetts and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni.

Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at: Bronx High School of Science and Harvard University
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (2005), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1996) and Albert A. Michelson Medal (1985)
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English
Wikipedia editions: 73

What the chart says

Roy, according to the stars

Core essence

Roy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Roy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Roy needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Roy needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Roy wants to be loved

Roy wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Roy gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Roy creates

How Roy makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Roy creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Roy 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 9 is the humanitarian. Roy is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Roy channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Roy's birth date. Working below.

Where Roy sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network

Roy

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Roy

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Roy

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Roy

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

PracticalVisionary

Roy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Roy

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Roy J. Glauber

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

Roy’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 86.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 15.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Lyra.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.

The name and the places

Born in: New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Newton, Middlesex County in 2018.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roy J. Glauber: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Roy's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Venus · 1 unaspected planet

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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Roy J. Glauber in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Roy J. Glauber's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Roy J. Glauber was born on September 1, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Roy J. Glauber's birth date, September 1, 1925, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Roy’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Roy J. Glauber's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
Roy J. Glauber combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.

Roy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

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

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Roy’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
Roy’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.9° orb
Roy’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
stableVenussquarePluto1.0° to 2.2° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.5° to 2.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.6° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 4.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water3 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal3 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°57′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 25°36′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 2°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 11°46′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
Hygiea square Venus 1.0°
Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.0°
Chiron trine Mercury 1.3°
Ceres trine Uranus 1.5°
Hygiea trine Saturn 2.1°
Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.6°

Roy’s dominant planets

1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects

Configurations in Roy’s chart

T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn 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 semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
Mercury quintile Saturn 1.0°
Mercury semi-square Venus 1.1°
Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°

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Roy’s cards

Computed from September 1, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Roy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q64188 (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 Markus Pössel (User name: Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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Quick answers about Roy J. Glauber’s chart

What zodiac sign was Roy J. Glauber?: Roy J. Glauber was a Virgo: born September 1, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Roy J. Glauber's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1925 birth.
What was Roy J. Glauber's Life Path number?: Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Roy J. Glauber's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Roy J. Glauber's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Roy J. Glauber's dominant planet?: Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.