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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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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 1880
1948
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Benny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, 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 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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. 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 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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Benny Goodman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra 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.
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
Benny’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb
Benny’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.5° to 3.1° orb
Benny’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° orb
Benny’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° 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.
stableMercurytrineMars5.4° to 5.8° orb
Benny’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 5.8° orb
Benny’s core identity grinds against their drive.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°11′
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.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 27°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Benny caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 23°05′ (moves 0.67° 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.
⚕ HygieaCancer 11°14′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Benny is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 27°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Benny exacting with themselves first.
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 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Benny is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benny Goodman, 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 May 30, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Benny Goodman, 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 Q46755, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- 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 time was Benny Goodman 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 Goodman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 30, 1909 birth date.
- What was Benny Goodman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 30, 1909 birth date.
- 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.
