Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965, New Castle, United States, 23:56), aged 61, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer. Reznor's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and Academy Award for Best Original Score.
Trent Reznor’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Trent
Trent Reznor’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Trent in the U.S.?
#1344
US rank in 2025
~51,710
Americans share it since 1916
2001
its peak year
Trent ranked 323rd among boys and 5,777th among girls in 1965, the year of this birth, with 554 American boys and 7 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Trent’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Trent’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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 Trent apart
Trent Reznor took the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in 2011, at 46.
Mercer Area High School and Allegheny College shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1982, at 17.
On the family side, Trent Reznor was married Mariqueen Maandig.
The same date carries Luann de Lesseps. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Mercer Area High School and Allegheny College
- Instruments
- guitar, cello, drum and piano
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (2011), Academy Award for Best Original Score (2011) and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (2013)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- Working from
- 1982
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
Trent, according to the stars
Core essence
Trent is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Trent is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Trent 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 Trent 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 Trent wants to be loved
Trent wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Trent like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Trent creates
How Trent makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Trent creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Trent 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Trent is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Trent channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Trent's birth date. Working below.
Where Trent sits
Six lines
Trent’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Trent Reznor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Castle on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above New Castle at 23:56, Trent Reznor’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New Castle that night
Computed for 41.00°N, at the documented birth time.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over New Castle at the birth hour, 79.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New Castle on any night.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waning gibbous.
What Trent's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Solar Star 太陽 in 巳
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Trent Reznor's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Trent Reznor was born on May 17, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Trent Reznor's birth date, May 17, 1965, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Trent’s chart
- The Ascendant is Capricorn, from the documented birth time, with no planet in the four angular houses.
- The tightest major aspect in Trent Reznor's timed chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Trent Reznor combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Trent’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 0.6° orb
Trent’s affections and growth act as one.
MarsconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.7° orb
Trent’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturnoppositionPlutoseparating · 2.2° orb
Trent’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MarsconjunctionUranusseparating · 2.3° orb
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 3.0° orb
VenussquareUranusapplying · 4.2° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 4.9° orb
SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 5.2° orb
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 6.4° orb
VenussquareMarsapplying · 6.6° orb
MercurytrineUranusapplying · 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Trent’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 21°55′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°48′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 5°58′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 18°45′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°30′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.4°
- Eros square Venus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.9°
Trent’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Trent’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.
- Sun quincunx Moon 0.3°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.9°
Trent’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 3 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 11 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 6 | Sun, Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 5 | Venus, Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 5 | Mars, Uranus, Pluto | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 9 | Neptune | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 6 | Moon | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Trent
Luann de Lesseps was born on May 17, 1965 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New Castle, at 41.0°N, nothing below −49.0° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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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
Trent’s cards
Computed from May 17, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Trent’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q282722 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Mykal Burns!, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Trent Reznor at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Trent Reznor.
Quick answers about Trent Reznor’s chart
- How old is Trent Reznor?
- Trent Reznor is 61 years old, born May 17, 1965 in New Castle, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Trent Reznor?
- Trent Reznor is a Taurus: born May 17, 1965, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
- What is Trent Reznor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 17, 1965 birth.
- What time was Trent Reznor born?
- 23:56 local time in New Castle, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Trent Reznor's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 23:56 birth time in New Castle, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Trent Reznor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Trent Reznor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Trent Reznor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 24°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Trent Reznor's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
