Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett (born April 8, 1943, Buffalo, United States; died 1987), was an American choreographer. Bennett's honours include Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Michael Bennett’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Goat, with 
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Michael Bennett’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?
#21
US rank in 2025
~4,448,633
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Michael is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Michael is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Michael creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Michael is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Michael goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Michael's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Michael sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Michael Bennett's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 8, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Michael Bennett was born on April 8, 1943, which falls in a Water 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 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Michael Bennett's birth date, April 8, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Bennett's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Michael Bennett combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michael Bennett, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 1.4° orb
Michael’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb
Michael’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenussquareMars1.7° to 2.2° orb
Michael’s affections grind against their drive.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
Michael’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto2.9° orb
Michael’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Michael’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 5.2° orb
Michael’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.8° orb
Michael’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Michael’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 ℞Leo 23°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Michael performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°10′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Michael is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 26°57′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Michael wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°59′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Michael at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Michael guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron square Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Michael’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Michael is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Michael’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Bennett, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Michael’s cards
Every card is computed from April 8, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michael Bennett, 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
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1289541, 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.
The same Michael Bennett 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Michael Bennett.
Quick answers about Michael Bennett’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michael Bennett?
- Michael Bennett was an Aries: born April 8, 1943, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- What was Michael Bennett's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 8, 1943 birth.
- What time was Michael Bennett 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 Michael Bennett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the April 8, 1943 birth date.
- What was Michael Bennett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 8, 1943 birth date.
- Where was Michael Bennett's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michael Bennett's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
