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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~49,144
Americans share it since 1880
1948
its peak year
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Benny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Benny Carter in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Benny Carter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Leo 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.
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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.
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
Benny’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.4° orb
Benny’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
Benny’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.5° to 7.5° orb
Benny’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.6° orb
Benny’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.9° orb
Benny’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 15°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Benny making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLeo 12°24′ (moves 0.45° 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. Benny is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAries 23°10′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Benny is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°25′ (moves 0.08° 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. Benny is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Benny guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.6°
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°).
Benny’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Benny is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Benny’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Mars 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benny Carter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Benny’s cards
Every card is computed from August 8, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Benny Carter, 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
Benny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q356715, 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 Ed Berger, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benny Carter 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- 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 time was Benny Carter 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 was Benny Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1907 birth date.
- What was Benny Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1907 birth date.
- 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.
