Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét (born July 22, 1898, Fountain Hill, United States; died 1943), was an American poet, short story writer, novelist. Benét is best remembered for The Devil and Daniel Webster, By the Waters of Babylon and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Benét's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, O. Henry Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Stephen Vincent Benét’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Dog, with 
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How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Stephen needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen 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 Stephen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen 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. Stephen 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: Stephen is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Stephen 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 Stephen leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Stephen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Stephen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Cancer or Leo Sun
Stephen Vincent Benét was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Dog
Earth DogGuards the gate all night.
Stephen Vincent Benét was born on July 22, 1898, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Stephen Vincent Benét's birth date, July 22, 1898, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Vincent Benét's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Stephen Vincent Benét, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Virgo 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.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Stephen’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.2° to 1.3° orb
Stephen’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.5° to 3.1° orb
Stephen’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.9° to 3.1° orb
Stephen’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.9° to 2.4° orb
Stephen’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars2.5° to 2.8° orb
Stephen’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.2° orb
Stephen’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.0° to 3.8° orb
Stephen’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.6° to 6.6° orb
Stephen’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareMars5.7° to 6.1° orb
Stephen’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.3° orb
Stephen’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Stephen’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 ℞Scorpio 23°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Stephen carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresLeo 18°27′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Stephen is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 0°29′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Stephen is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°28′ (moves 0.36° 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 Stephen at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°39′ (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 Stephen 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 Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros square Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.7°
- Eros square Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.8°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Stephen’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. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Stephen is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Stephen’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.
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stephen Vincent Benét, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Stephen’s family here
One relative of Stephen Vincent Benét also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Stephen’s cards
Every card is computed from July 22, 1898, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stephen Vincent Benét, 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
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1348138, 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.
Portrait by Yale College (photographer unknown), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Vincent Benét 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 Stephen Vincent Benét’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stephen Vincent Benét?
- Stephen Vincent Benét was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dog.
- What was Stephen Vincent Benét's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1898 birth.
- What time was Stephen Vincent Benét 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 Stephen Vincent Benét's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1898 birth date.
- What was Stephen Vincent Benét's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1898 birth date.
- Where was Stephen Vincent Benét's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stephen Vincent Benét's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
