Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Chester Bennington.

20 March 1976 · 22:41 · Phoenix, Arizona

Chester Bennington's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Sagittarius, Sagittarius rising. Born March 20, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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What is Chester Bennington's sun sign?

Chester Bennington's sun is in Aries.

What is Chester Bennington's moon sign?

Chester Bennington's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Chester Bennington's rising sign?

Chester Bennington's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Chester Bennington born?

Chester Bennington was born March 20, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share fire as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAries · 4th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonSagittarius · 1st house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Aries in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeScorpio · 12th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 6th house

The South Node in Taurus (6th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Pisces; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Sagittarius rising puts Jupiter in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Jupiter · the chart rulerAries · 5th house

Growth comes through action, courage and beginnings, carried by faith in the new. The shadow is an ego inflated by constant starting with no follow-through.

Where it drives. The heart grows large. Generous in love and strong in creative output, with joy taken in romance and in children. Self-expression is where the luck lives.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver. Planets in the 10th (Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusScorpio · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAries · 5th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, mutable chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Your Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share fire as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
54%
Earth
8%
Air
0%
Water
38%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

No major aspect patterns sit tight enough to qualify here. The chart reads as a network of pair contacts rather than a defining geometry.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Sun square Marsorb 0.43°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 1.17°

In you, the Moon works easily with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Venus trine Uranusorb 1.21°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Moon conjunction Neptuneorb 2.18°

In you, the Moon is fused with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mars sextile Jupiterorb 2.38°

In you, Mars works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

Venus is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Moon and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Part of Fortune trine Vertexorb 1.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Part of Fortune and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Venus trine Uranusorb 1.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Venus and Uranus feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.8°

A natural, flowing ease: Neptune and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Saturn square Chironorb 0.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn and Chiron never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Marsorb 0.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Mars never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

Mercury runs uphill in Pisces, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

Saturn runs uphill in Cancer, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 2.8°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and Saturn never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Chester Bennington
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun0°46' Aries4th houseexaltation
Moon11°46' Sagittarius1st house·
Mercury19°56' Pisces4th housedetriment
Venus7°41' Pisces3rd houseexaltation
Mars1°12' Cancer7th housefall
Jupiter28°49' Aries5th housechart ruler
Saturn26°03' Cancer8th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus6°28' Scorpio11th houseretrograde
Neptune13°57' Sagittarius1st houseretrograde
Pluto10°36' Libra10th houseretrograde
Chiron26°02' Aries5th house·
North Node13°21' Scorpio12th house·
South Node13°21' Taurus6th house·
Black Moon Lilith15°46' Aries4th house·
Part of Fortune23°21' Pisces4th house·
Vertex22°10' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsquarechiron0.02°applying
sunsquaremars0.43°applying
moonsextilepluto1.17°separating
part-of-fortunetrinevertex1.19°separating
venustrineuranus1.21°separating
neptunetrinelilith1.82°separating
moonconjunctionneptune2.18°applying
mercurytrinevertex2.22°applying
marssextilejupiter2.38°separating
saturntrinepart-of-fortune2.71°applying
jupitersquaresaturn2.76°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron2.78°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.35°separating
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune3.41°applying
chironsquarevertex3.88°separating
saturnconjunctionvertex3.90°applying
moontrinelilith4.00°applying
moonsquarevenus4.09°separating
suntrinesaturn4.71°separating
plutooppositionlilith5.17°separating
marstrineuranus5.27°applying
venustrinenorth-node5.67°applying
mercurysquareneptune5.98°separating
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune7.42°separating
jupitersesquiquadrateneptune0.14°applying
sunbiquintileuranus0.30°separating
venussesquiquadratevertex0.52°separating
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.61°applying
moonsesquiquadratesaturn0.72°separating
moonsesquiquadratechiron0.74°separating
mercurysesquiquadrateuranus1.53°applying
moonsemisextilenorth-node1.58°applying
uranussesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.88°separating
sunsemisextilejupiter1.96°separating
north-nodequincunxlilith2.42°separating