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Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926, Queens, United States; died 2023), was an American singer. Bennett's honours include Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Tony Bennett’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Tony Bennett’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#784

US rank in 2025

~254,483

Americans share it since 1880

1961

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,012 American boys and 22 girls named Tony in 1926: 157th among boys and 1,876th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tony’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Tony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

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 1926, 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 Tony apart

The Grammy Award for Record of the Year came in 1963, when Tony Bennett was 37.

Tony Bennett was taught at High School of Art and Design.

Tony Bennett was 19 when the work began in 1945.

Tony Bennett lies at Calvary Cemetery.

Tony Bennett was married Sandra Grant Bennett and raised one child.

Wikipedia files Tony Bennett under American male painters, Big band singers and Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Queens).

Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
High School of Art and Design
Instruments
voice
Awards
NEA Jazz Masters (2006), Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (2007) and Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (1993)
Working from
1945
Buried at
Calvary Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
67

What the chart says

Tony, according to the stars

Core essence

Tony is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Tony is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Tony processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Tony needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Tony wants to be loved

Tony wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Tony gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Tony creates

How Tony makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Tony builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Tony is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Tony 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Tony is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Tony's birth date. Working below.

Where Tony sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Tony

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tony

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Tony

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tony

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Tony

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tony

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tony Bennett

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Queens at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Draco.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

Queens sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Queens at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 19% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Queens, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2023.

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

How unusual Tony's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Leo · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn

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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Tony Bennett in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Tony Bennett's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Tony Bennett was born on August 3, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 2

Quiet power, real power.

Tony Bennett's birth date, August 3, 1926, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Tony’s chart

Tony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.5° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.3° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.5° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.6° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Leo · 10°32′☉10°Moon in Gemini · 15°19′☽15°Mercury in Leo · 17°19′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Cancer · 12°27′♀12°Mars in Taurus · 1°15′♂1°Jupiter in Aquarius · 23°47′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Scorpio · 19°30′♄19°Uranus in Pisces · 29°06′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Leo · 23°59′♆23°Pluto in Cancer · 14°57′♇14°

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

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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

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.3° orb

    Tony’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Tony’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.1° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.9° to 7.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter6.2° to 6.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 2.1° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 2°10′

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 19°40′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 5°42′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 19°20′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 0.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.0°

Tony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Tony’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnAn 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.

  • Venus quintile Mars 0.8°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°

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Tony’s cards

Computed from August 3, 1926. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296729 (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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tony Bennett at Wikipedia, tonybennett.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tony Bennett.

Quick answers about Tony Bennett’s chart

What zodiac sign was Tony Bennett?
Tony Bennett was a Leo: born August 3, 1926, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Tony Bennett's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1926 birth.
What was Tony Bennett's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was Tony Bennett's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Tony Bennett's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Tony Bennett's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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