Benny Carter
Benny Carter (born August 8, 1907, Harlem, United States; died 2003), was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Carter's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.
Benny Carter’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Benny
Benny Carter’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Benny in the U.S.?
#841
US rank in 2025
~49,144
Americans share it since 1882
1948
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1907, Benny came 332nd, carried by 41 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Benny’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Benny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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 1907, 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 Benny apart
Benny Carter took the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1978, at 71.
Training came by way of Princeton University and Harvard University.
Cause of death is recorded as bronchitis.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Benny Carter: Mainstream jazz saxophonists, BBC Big Band members and Jazz arrangers.
Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton University and Harvard University
- Instruments
- trumpet, saxophone, clarinet and alto saxophone
- Awards
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987) and Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1978)
- Cause of death
- bronchitis
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 35
What the chart says
Benny, according to the stars
Core essence
Benny is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Benny is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Benny needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Benny needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Benny wants to be loved
Benny wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Benny openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Benny creates
How Benny makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Benny creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Benny 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Benny 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 Benny 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 Benny's birth date. Working below.
Where Benny sits
Six lines
Benny’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Benny Carter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harlem 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 Harlem that night
Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Harlem at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 5.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Harlem, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Benny Carter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Benny's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Benny Carter's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Benny Carter was born on August 8, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Benny Carter's birth date, August 8, 1907, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Benny’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benny Carter's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Benny Carter combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Benny’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Leo 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
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 0.6° orb
Benny’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.3° to 0.8° orb
Benny’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.9° to 1.2° orb
Benny’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.5° to 7.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.7° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 5.1° to 16.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Benny’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 15°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 12°24′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 23°10′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°25′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.6°
Benny’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Benny’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Mars 2.2°
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- Ferid MuradAmerican physician and pharmacologist
- David JuliusAmerican physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
- William G. KaelinAmerican Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
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Benny’s cards
Computed from August 8, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Benny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q356715 (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 Ed Berger, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benny Carter 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 Benny Carter.
Quick answers about Benny Carter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Benny Carter?
- Benny Carter was a Leo: born August 8, 1907, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Benny Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1907 birth.
- What was Benny Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Benny Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Benny Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Benny Carter's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
