Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman (born May 30, 1909, Chicago, United States; died 1986), was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. Goodman's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Benny Goodman’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Benny
Benny Goodman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 1909, Benny came 453rd, carried by 31 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Benny’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
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 record
What sets Benny apart
Marissa Mayer (1975) and Im Yoon-ah (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Benny, according to the stars
Core essence
Benny 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. Benny needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Benny cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Benny needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Benny wants to be loved
Benny wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Benny like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Benny creates
How Benny makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Benny creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Benny is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Benny 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Benny 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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Benny Goodman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 85% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
How unusual Benny's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 4-planet stellium in Gemini
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.
Score your own chart →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Benny Goodman's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 30, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Benny Goodman was born on May 30, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Benny Goodman's birth date, May 30, 1909, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Benny’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benny Goodman's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Benny Goodman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Benny’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra 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
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.1° to 6.6° orb
Benny’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Benny’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb
Benny’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurytrineMars5.4° to 5.8° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Benny’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°11′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 27°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 23°05′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 11°14′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 27°15′ (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 square Mercury 0.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.8°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
- Eros square Uranus 2.5°
Benny’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Benny’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
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Fellow Gemini suns
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- Novak DjokovicSerbian tennis player
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on May 30
- Marissa Mayer1975
- Im Yoon-ah1990
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- Frankie Delgado1981
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
What a Day Master is →Other Gemini Rooster charts
- Cooper KuppAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Ameer AbdullahAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Norman PowellAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Royce O'NealeAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
Other Gilded Seekers
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- Suki WaterhouseBritish model and actress
- Jhené AikoAmerican R&B singer
Famous people with Life Path 9
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Benny’s cards
Computed from May 30, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Benny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q46755 (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 Photo by Jammes J. Kriegsmann, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benny Goodman 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 Goodman.
Quick answers about Benny Goodman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Benny Goodman?
- Benny Goodman was a Gemini: born May 30, 1909, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Benny Goodman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 30, 1909 birth.
- What was Benny Goodman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Benny Goodman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Benny Goodman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Benny Goodman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
