Benji Madden
Benji Madden (born March 11, 1979, Waldorf, United States), aged 47, is an American rock musician.
Benji Madden’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Goat, with 
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Benji Madden’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Benji in the U.S.?
#1341
US rank in 2025
~2,348
Americans share it since 1880
1975
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Benji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Benji apart
Joel Madden shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Benji, according to the stars
Core essence
Benji feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Benji is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Benji wants to be loved
Benji 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 Benji be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Benji creates
How Benji makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Benji creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Benji 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Benji is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Benji 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 Benji's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waldorf on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Benji Madden at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Benji Madden's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 11, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
Benji Madden was born on March 11, 1979, which falls in a Earth 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 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Benji Madden's birth date, March 11, 1979, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Benji’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benji Madden's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.
- Benji Madden combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Benji’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Benji Madden, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Benji’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Benji’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Benji’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.3° to 2.0° orb
Benji’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
Benji’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.3° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 7.1° to 18.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 7.1° to 19.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Benji’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 6°29′ (moves 0.05° 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 Benji building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 7°23′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Benji is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°32′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Benji is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 28°27′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Benji is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Benji is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron square Venus 2.9°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.9°
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°).
Benji’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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter2.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Neptune
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Benji is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Benji’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.
Yod onto Saturn · Mercury, Venus, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benji Madden, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Benji’s family here
2 relatives of Benji Madden also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Benji
Joel Madden was born on March 11, 1979 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Benji’s cards
Every card is computed from March 11, 1979, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Benji Madden, 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
Benji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q792976, 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 Alfred Nitsch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benji Madden 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 Benji Madden.
Quick answers about Benji Madden’s chart
- How old is Benji Madden?
- Benji Madden is 47 years old, born March 11, 1979 in Waldorf, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Benji Madden?
- Benji Madden is a Pisces: born March 11, 1979, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat.
- What is Benji Madden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1979 birth.
- What time was Benji Madden 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 Benji Madden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the March 11, 1979 birth date.
- What is Benji Madden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 11, 1979 birth date.
- Where is Benji Madden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Benji Madden's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
