Layne Staley
Layne Staley (born Layne Rutherford; August 22, 1967, Bellevue, United States, 07:00; died 2002), was an American rock musician.
Layne Staley’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Layne Staley’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Layne in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~20,034
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
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Layne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Layne, according to the stars
Core essence
Layne is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Layne is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Layne 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 Layne 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 Layne wants to be loved
Layne wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Layne and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Layne creates
How Layne makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Layne creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Layne is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Layne 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Layne runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Layne's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Layne Staley's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Layne Staley was born on August 22, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Layne Staley's birth date, August 22, 1967, 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 Layne’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Layne Staley's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Venus in the 1st house, Uranus in the 1st house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Layne Staley's timed chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Layne Staley combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Layne’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarssquareJupiterapplying · 0.2° orb
Layne’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 1.3° orb
Layne’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 1.5° orb
Layne’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.0° orb
Layne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.1° orb
Layne’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
JupitersquareNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
Layne’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
Layne’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.5° orb
Layne’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 3.9° orb
Layne’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MarssextileUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
Layne’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.0° orb
Layne’s mind grinds against their imagination.
MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 5.4° orb
Layne’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 6.8° orb
Layne’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.4° orb
Layne’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Layne’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 28°48′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Layne absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 29°16′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Layne is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosGemini 2°46′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Layne is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°41′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Layne is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°34′ · House 8
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 Layne 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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.5°
- Chiron conjunction Moon 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.2°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.6°
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°).
Layne’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♆ Neptune10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 6 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Layne is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Layne’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Moon quincunx Mercury 0.4°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Moon 1.7°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 2.0°
Layne’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 12 | Venus, Uranus, Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 1 | Mars, Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 8 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 3 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 3 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 12 | Sun, Mercury, Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Layne
Ty Burrell was born on August 22, 1967 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Layne’s cards
Every card is computed from August 22, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Layne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309838, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Rex Aran Emrick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Layne Staley at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Layne Staley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Layne Staley?
- Layne Staley was a Leo: born August 22, 1967, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was Layne Staley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1967 birth.
- What time was Layne Staley born?
- 07:00 local time in Bellevue, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Layne Staley's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 07:00 birth time in Bellevue, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Layne Staley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1967 birth date.
- What was Layne Staley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1967 birth time.
- Where was Layne Staley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Layne Staley's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 6 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
