Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry (born October 18, 1926, St. Louis, United States; died 2017), was an American musician. Berry is best remembered for Roll Over Beethoven, Rock and Roll Music and Johnny B. Goode. Berry's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors.
Chuck Berry’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Chuck Berry’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 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Chuck in the U.S.?
#8381
US rank in 2025
~17,871
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Chuck’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Chuck, according to the stars
Core essence
Chuck makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Chuck is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Chuck is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Chuck needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Chuck wants to be loved
Chuck wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Chuck gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Chuck creates
How Chuck makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Chuck 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: Chuck is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Chuck 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 Chuck leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Chuck is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Chuck's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chuck sits
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Chuck Berry at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Chuck Berry's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Chuck Berry was born on October 18, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Chuck Berry's birth date, October 18, 1926, 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 Chuck’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chuck Berry's date-only chart is Venus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Chuck Berry combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Chuck’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chuck Berry, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Pisces 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.
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Chuck’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.5° to 0.8° orb
Chuck’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextilePluto0.6° to 0.9° orb
Chuck’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.7° to 1.9° orb
Chuck’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
Chuck’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb
Chuck’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
Chuck’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.1° to 3.5° orb
Chuck’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.7° to 4.4° orb
Chuck’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.5° to 4.9° orb
Chuck’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Chuck’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 0°04′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Chuck building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 23°25′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Chuck is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°48′ (moves 0.40° 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. Chuck is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 17°51′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Chuck is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°40′ (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 Chuck 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.
- Eros trine Mars 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Eros square Venus 1.7°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.0°
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°).
Chuck’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Chuck is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Chuck’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Mars, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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 semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chuck Berry, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on October 18
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Other Libra Tiger charts
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Other Gilded Strategists
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Chuck’s cards
Every card is computed from October 18, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chuck Berry, 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
Chuck’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5921, 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 Pablo Vaz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chuck Berry at Wikipedia, app.soundcharts.com, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube 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 Chuck Berry.
Quick answers about Chuck Berry’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Chuck Berry?
- Chuck Berry was a Libra: born October 18, 1926, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Chuck Berry's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1926 birth.
- What time was Chuck Berry 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 Chuck Berry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the October 18, 1926 birth date.
- What was Chuck Berry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 18, 1926 birth date.
- Where was Chuck Berry's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Chuck Berry's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
