Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington (born March 20, 1976, Phoenix, United States; died 2017), was an American singer, songwriter and musician. Best-known releases include High Rise and Mall (Music from the Motion Picture).
Chester Bennington’s zodiac sign was Pisces or Aries (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.How compatible are you with Chester Bennington?
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How common is the name Chester in the U.S.?
#1588
US rank in 2025
~122,302
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Chester’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Chester, according to the stars
How Chester wants to be loved
Chester wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Chester, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Chester creates
How Chester makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Chester creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Chester is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Chester is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Chester leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Chester does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Chester's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Phoenix on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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.
Pisces or Aries Sun
Chester Bennington was born on a day when the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Chester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Chester Bennington's birth date, March 20, 1976, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Chester’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chester Bennington's date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Chester’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chester Bennington, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Chester’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMars0.4° to 1.0° orb
Chester’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.2° to 2.4° orb
Chester’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.5° to 2.8° orb
Chester’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
Chester’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
Chester’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.2° to 6.0° orb
Chester’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarstrineUranus5.3° to 5.7° orb
Chester’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineMars5.7° to 6.5° orb
Chester’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.6° to 7.9° orb
Chester’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Chester’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.
⚷ ChironAries 26°01′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Chester may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 12°02′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Chester feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosPisces 17°32′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Chester is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 28°33′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Chester needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Chester carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Chiron square Saturn 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.8°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.4°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
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°).
Chester’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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Chester is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Chester’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.
Grand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chester Bennington, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Chester’s cards
Every card is computed from March 20, 1976, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chester Bennington, 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
Chester’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19198, 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 Stefan Brending (2eight), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chester Bennington at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Chester Bennington.
Quick answers about Chester Bennington’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Chester Bennington?
- Chester Bennington was born on a day when the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Chester Bennington's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 20, 1976 birth.
- What time was Chester Bennington 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 Chester Bennington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 20, 1976 birth date.
- What was Chester Bennington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 20, 1976 birth date.
- Where was Chester Bennington's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Chester Bennington's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
