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Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin (born January 11, 1886, Oskaloosa, United States; died 1971), was an Actor, comedian. Conklin's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Chester Conklin’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Chester Conklin’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Strategist

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Chester, according to the stars

Core essence

Chester is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Chester is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Chester is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Chester channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Chester's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Chester sits

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Chester’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Chester

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Chester

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Chester

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Chester

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Chester

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Chester

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oskaloosa 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.

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Chester Conklin's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 11, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Wood Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Chester Conklin was born on January 11, 1886, which falls in a Wood 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 8

Built for the big table.

Chester Conklin's birth date, January 11, 1886, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Chester’s chart

Chester’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Chester Conklin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.8° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.5° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 21°31′21°Moon in Aries · 1°21′Mercury in Sagittarius · 28°19′28°Venus in Pisces · 2°50′Mars in Virgo · 24°04′24°Jupiter in Libra · 5°53′Saturn in Cancer · 3°36′ · retrogradeUranus in Libra · 7°43′ · retrogradeNeptune in Taurus · 22°54′ · retrograde22°Pluto in Gemini · 1°20′ · retrograde

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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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Chester’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Chester’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Chester’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.2° to 1.8° orb

    Chester’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.8° orb

    Chester’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSuntrineMars2.1° to 3.0° orb

    Chester’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Chester’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.7° orb

    Chester’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb

    Chester’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus4.2° to 4.8° orb

    Chester’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

    Chester’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.7° to 5.9° orb

    Chester’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ChironGemini 11°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Chester turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • CeresSagittarius 25°19′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Chester is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ErosCapricorn 18°26′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Chester is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaTaurus 3°24′ (moves 0.09° 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. Chester is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Chester at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.6°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.7°

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. 1. Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Chester is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus biquintile Uranus 1.1°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chester Conklin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Chester’s cards

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Strength

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yin Wood

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Chester Conklin, 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 Q1070698, 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 Hartsook Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Chester Conklin at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Conklin.

Quick answers about Chester Conklin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Chester Conklin?
Chester Conklin was a Capricorn: born January 11, 1886, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster.
What was Chester Conklin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 11, 1886 birth.
What time was Chester Conklin 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 Conklin's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 11, 1886 birth date.
What was Chester Conklin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 11, 1886 birth date.
Where was Chester Conklin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Chester Conklin's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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