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), Chinese zodiac was Earth Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
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
Stephen ranked 99th in 1898, the year of this birth, with 195 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Stephen apart
Willem Dafoe (1955) and John Leguizamo (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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The sky over Fountain Hill that night
Computed for 40.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Fountain Hill at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 12.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Fountain Hill at all: they sit past the −49.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 17% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Stephen's chart is
Chart pattern score
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · 2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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.
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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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Virgo 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
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
stableMarstrineJupiter1.9° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.5° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.6° to 6.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 23°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 18°27′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 0°29′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
Stephen’s family here
One relative of Stephen Vincent Benét also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Stephen’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1898. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1348138 (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.
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. The full method: how it works.
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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.
- 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 was Stephen Vincent Benét's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stephen Vincent Benét's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
