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, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Michael
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
Michael ranked 10th among boys and 553rd among girls in 1943, the year of this birth, with 24,745 American boys and 188 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Michael apart
Kofi Annan (1938) and Vivienne Westwood (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Michael sits
Six lines
Michael’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 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.
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 Michael Bennett
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buffalo 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 Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Buffalo at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableUranussextilePluto2.9° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 5.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°08′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°10′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 26°57′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°59′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Michael’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Michael’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on April 8
- Kofi Annan1938
- Vivienne Westwood1941
- Marc Jacobs1963
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Famous people with Life Path 2
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Michael’s cards
Computed from April 8, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1289541 (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.
The same Michael Bennett 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 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.
- 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 was Michael Bennett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michael Bennett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
