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Annette Bening

Annette Bening (born May 29, 1958, Topeka, United States), aged 68, is an American actress (born 1958). Bening's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award and Donostia Award.

Annette Bening’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Annette Bening’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#1443

US rank in 2025

~169,795

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Annette’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Annette apart

John F. Kennedy (1917) and Peter Higgs (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Annette, according to the stars

Core essence

Annette 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. Annette needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Annette wants to be loved

Annette wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Annette creates

How Annette makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Annette creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Annette 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Annette 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Annette slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Annette's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Annette sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Annette

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Annette

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

PrivateExpressive
Annette

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Annette

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

PracticalVisionary
Annette

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Annette

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

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Annette Bening in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Annette Bening's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 29, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Annette Bening's birth date, May 29, 1958, 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 Annette’s chart

Annette’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Annette Bening, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 2.4° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.4° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun in Gemini · 7°49′☉7°Moon in Libra · 24°48′☽24°Mercury in Taurus · 17°17′☿17°Venus in Aries · 27°11′♀27°Mars in Pisces · 23°51′♂23°Jupiter in Libra · 22°23′ · retrograde♃℞22°Saturn in Sagittarius · 23°31′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Leo · 8°23′♅8°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°31′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Leo · 29°52′♇29°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Annette’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.0° orb

    Annette’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Annette’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb

    Annette’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb

    Annette’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.0° to 4.3° orb

    Annette’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.2° to 5.4° orb

    Annette’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.8° to 5.9° orb

    Annette’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb

    Annette’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb

    Annette’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Annette’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°43′

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Annette making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 6°37′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Annette is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 15°60′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Annette is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Annette is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°56′ (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 Annette 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.

  • Chiron trine Jupiter 0.3°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.0°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.5°

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°).

Annette’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. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Annette is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Annette’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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Annette Bening, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Annette’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The World

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The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Annette Bening, 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

Annette’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190602, 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 Annette_Bening_2011_AA.jpg: David Torcivia at https://www.flickr.com/photos/viatorci/ derivative work: César (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Annette Bening at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.

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Quick answers about Annette Bening’s chart

How old is Annette Bening?
Annette Bening is 68 years old, born May 29, 1958 in Topeka, United States.
What zodiac sign is Annette Bening?
Annette Bening is a Gemini: born May 29, 1958, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
What is Annette Bening's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 29, 1958 birth.
What time was Annette Bening 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 Annette Bening's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 29, 1958 birth date.
What is Annette Bening's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 29, 1958 birth date.
Where is Annette Bening's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Annette Bening's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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