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Steve Benson

Steve Benson (born January 2, 1954, Sacramento, United States; died 2025), was an American cartoonist. Benson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Sigma Delta Chi Award and Emperor Has No Clothes Award.

Steve Benson’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Steve Benson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Steve in the U.S.?

#1617

US rank in 2025

~242,131

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

In 1954, 5,062 American boys and 17 girls were registered Steve — 76th among boys and 2,774th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steve’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (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

Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 Steve apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning came in 1993, when Steve Benson was 39.

The schooling ran through Brigham Young University.

The family line: born to Mark A. Benson.

On Wikipedia the categories read American Mormon missionaries in Japan, Benson family and Critics of Mormonism.

Isaac Asimov (1920) and Christy Turlington (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Brigham Young University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1993), Sigma Delta Chi Award (2014) and Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2002)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Steve, according to the stars

Core essence

Steve is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Steve is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Steve is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Steve needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Steve wants to be loved

Steve wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Steve you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Steve creates

How Steve 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. Steve 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: Steve is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Steve is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Steve 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 Steve's birth date. Working below.

Where Steve sits

Six lines

Steve’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Steve

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steve

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Steve

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steve

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Steve

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steve

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Steve Benson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sacramento on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Steve’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 86.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 71.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Sacramento that night

Computed for 38.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sacramento was Menkib, in Perseus, 86.1° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Sacramento sits at 38.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sacramento on any night.

The Moon, 4% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Sacramento, United States

The death is recorded at Gilbert, Maricopa County in 2025.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Steve Benson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Steve's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 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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Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Steve Benson's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 2, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Steve Benson was born on January 2, 1954, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Steve Benson's birth date, January 2, 1954, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Steve’s chart

Steve’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Capricorn · 11°55′☉11°Moon in Sagittarius · 14°25′☽14°Mercury in Capricorn · 4°52′☿4°Venus in Capricorn · 5°24′♀5°Mars in Scorpio · 8°01′♂8°Jupiter in Gemini · 18°48′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Scorpio · 7°37′♄7°Uranus in Cancer · 21°27′ · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Libra · 25°53′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 24°42′ · retrograde♇℞24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 0.7° orb

    Steve’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.7° orb

    Steve’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

    Steve’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn2.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.3° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars2.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.7° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.8° to 7.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 21°10′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 8°30′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 22°32′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 26°25′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 11°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.5°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 2.2°

Steve’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Steve’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.3°

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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works

Steve’s cards

Computed from January 2, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2346847 (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 Chitrapa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steve Benson at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Benson.

Quick answers about Steve Benson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Steve Benson?
Steve Benson was a Capricorn: born January 2, 1954, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Steve Benson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 2, 1954 birth.
What was Steve Benson's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Steve Benson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Steve Benson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Steve Benson's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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