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), Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Chester
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
The SSA recorded 370 American boys named Chester in 1976: 404th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Chester’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on C (3) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chester’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1976, 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 Chester apart
Chester Bennington was taught at James Madison High School and Greenway High School.
Chester Bennington was 16 when the work began in 1992.
Cause of death is recorded as hanging to death.
The family line: born to Lee Russell Bennington, married Samantha Marie Olit and Talinda Ann Bentley and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Chester Bennington under Nu metal singers, Suicides by hanging in California and Kings of Chaos (band) members.
Fred Rogers (1928) and Barron Trump (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- James Madison High School and Greenway High School
- Instruments
- guitar, bass guitar, drum kit and sampler
- Working from
- 1992
- Cause of death
- hanging to death
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 98
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Chester Bennington
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Phoenix 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 Phoenix that night
Computed for 33.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Pollux stood nearest the zenith over Phoenix at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.3° above the horizon in Gemini.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Phoenix sits at 33.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 68% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 29° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Phoenix, United States
- Lived in
- Palos Verdes Peninsula
Wikidata records Palos Verdes Peninsula as Chester Bennington's home, against Phoenix as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Palos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County in 2017.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Chester Bennington: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Chester's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets
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 →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.2° to 6.0° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.3° to 5.7° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.6° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 26°01′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 12°02′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 17°32′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 28°33′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Chester’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Chester’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
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More charts like Chester’s
Born in Dragon years
- Diane LaneAmerican actress
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Also born on March 20
- Fred Rogers1928
- Barron Trump2006
- Luisito Comunica1991
- Christy Carlson Romano1984
- Clare Crawley1981
- Kathy Ireland1963
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Néstor KirchnerPresident of Argentina from 2003 to 2007
- James FrancoAmerican actor
- Jordan PetersonCanadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Carl SaganAmerican astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
- Justin Trudeau23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025
- Werner HeisenbergGerman theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Chester’s cards
Computed from March 20, 1976. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chester’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19198 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Chester Bennington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Chester Bennington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
