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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Layne
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.?
#662
US rank in 2025
~20,034
Americans share it since 1918
2021
its peak year
Layne ranked 826th among boys and 3,566th among girls in 1967, the year of this birth, with 76 American boys and 14 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Layne’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Layne Rutherford, not the name they published under.
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Expression · starting things
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Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Layne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1967, 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 Layne apart
The classrooms behind this chart: Meadowdale High School.
The working life starts in 1984, at 17.
Cause of death is recorded as drug overdose.
The same date carries Ty Burrell. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Meadowdale High School
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Working from
- 1984
- Cause of death
- drug overdose
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
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. Working below.
Where Layne sits
Six lines
Layne’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Layne Staley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bellevue on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Bellevue at 07:00, Layne Staley’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Bellevue that night
Computed for 47.61°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Bellevue was Mirfak, in Perseus, 84.6° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 109 catalog stars above the horizon.
Bellevue sits at 47.6°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −42.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bellevue on any night.
The Moon, 94% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -7° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Layne Rutherford
- Known as
- Layne Staley
- Born in
- Bellevue, United States
The death is recorded at Seattle, King County in 2002.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Layne's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Debater 巨門 in 辰
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Layne Staley's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.
What Leo means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.1° orb
JupitersquareNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
MarsconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.5° orb
MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 3.9° orb
MarssextileUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.0° orb
MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 5.4° orb
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 6.8° orb
MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 28°48′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 29°16′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 2°46′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°41′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°34′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Layne’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Layne’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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 and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Bellevue, at 47.6°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Layne’s cards
Computed from August 22, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Layne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309838 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Layne Staley.
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.
- 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.
- What was Layne Staley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
