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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Chuck
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 1914
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 32 American boys named Chuck in 1926: 1,282nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Chuck’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chuck’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Chuck apart
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Chuck sits
Six lines
Chuck’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Chuck Berry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at St. Louis was Scheat, in Pegasus, 78.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
St. Louis sits at 38.6°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 −51.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Chuck's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Uranus · T-square onto Jupiter · Mars retrograde
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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Pisces 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
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
stableSunsextileNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.1° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.7° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.5° to 4.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 0°04′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 23°25′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 17°51′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Chuck’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Chuck’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Chuck
Other composers
- Hank Williams1923
- André Previn1929
- Leon Kirchner1919
- Marion Williams1927
- George Walker1922
- George Crumb1929
Born in United States
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- William RedfieldAmerican actor
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- Lawrence TurmanAmerican film producer
- Harry Dean StantonAmerican actor
- Leontyne PriceAfrican-American soprano
More charts like Chuck’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Alfie JonesEnglish association football player (born 1997)
- Michael SvobodaAustrian association football player (1998-)
- Felix NmechaGerman association football player
Born in Tiger years
- Anthony EdwardsAmerican actor
- Joel EdgertonAustralian actor
- Brooke ElliottAmerican actress and singer
Also born on October 18
- Zohran Mamdani1991
- Ne-Yo1979
- Brittney Griner1990
- Zac Efron1987
- Martina Navratilova1956
- Bristol Palin1990
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Meghan McCainAmerican columnist, author, and television personality (born 1984)
- Drake MayeAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Martin LawrenceAmerican actor and comedian (born 1965)
Other Libra Tiger charts
- Ashley HamiltonAmerican actor
- Natalie MainesAmerican singer; lead vocalist for Dixie Chicks
- Kelly PrestonAmerican actress
- Trent Alexander-ArnoldEnglish association football player (born 1998)
Other Gilded Strategists
- Hamdi UlukayaTurkish businessperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1972)
- Suleyman KerimovBusinessman, investor, oligarch
- Woody JohnsonAmerican businessman, ambassador
- Dato Sri TahirIndonesian businessman
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Seiji OzawaJapanese orchestra conductor
- James TaylorAmerican singer and guitarist
- James LevineAmerican conductor and pianist
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Chuck’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chuck’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5921 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Chuck Berry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Chuck Berry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
