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Chester Bennington

Chester Bennington’s birth chart

Born 20 March 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.

Sun in Pisces or Aries · Moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius

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Chester Bennington’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

20 March 1976 was a Saturday: the day Chester Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona. The Sun moved from Pisces into Aries at about 04:50 local time that day, so the zodiac sign depends on the birth time: Pisces for a birth before then, Aries after. The Moon was in Scorpio until about 03:35 and in Sagittarius afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Chester died on 20 July 2017, aged 41. No verified birth time is on file for Chester; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.

Water carries the most weight: five of the eight planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, against fire two, air one and earth none. Cardinal signs hold four, mutable signs three and fixed signs one. The tightest aspect is Venus trine Uranus, about 0.6° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.

StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 20 March, among them Carl Reiner, Fernando Torres and John de Lancie.

See the sky the day Chester was born: the stars over Phoenix, Arizona, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

Chester Bennington’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Pisces or Aries

Pisces until about 04:50, then Aries (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.

Born before about 04:50: Sun in Pisces

A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Chester Bennington the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.

Born after about 04:50: Sun in Aries

An Aries Sun starts things. For Chester that points to energy that is direct and impatient with delay, and to feeling most like themselves when there is something to go first at. The work of this placement is finishing what the spark began.

Moon sign

Scorpio or Sagittarius

Scorpio until about 03:35, then Sagittarius (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.

Born before about 03:35: Moon in Scorpio

The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Chester that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.

Born after about 03:35: Moon in Sagittarius

A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Chester, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.

Rising sign

The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Phoenix, Arizona, at each hour of the day.

Chester Bennington’s rising sign, by birth time

StarMap has not verified a birth time for Chester yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 20 March 1976, computed for Phoenix, Arizona.

Rising sign by time of birth, local time
Born around (local time)Rising sign
00:00 to 01:45Sagittarius rising
01:45 to 03:40Capricorn rising
03:40 to 05:15Aquarius rising
05:15 to 06:35Pisces rising
06:35 to 07:55Aries rising
07:55 to 09:30Taurus rising
09:30 to 11:30Gemini rising
11:30 to 13:45Cancer rising
13:45 to 16:10Leo rising
16:10 to 18:35Virgo rising
18:35 to 20:55Libra rising
20:55 to 23:20Scorpio rising
23:20 to 24:00Sagittarius rising

Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.

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Drawn for midday on 20 March 1976, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. The Sun is drawn at its midday place; it moved from Pisces into Aries at about 04:50, so its sign depends on the birth time. How to read a chart wheel

Placements

Chester Bennington’s planets by sign
SunPisces until about 04:50, then Aries
MoonScorpio until about 03:35, then Sagittarius
Mercury19° Pisces 03'
Venus7° Pisces 05'
Mars0° Cancer 59'
Jupiter28° Aries 42'
Saturn26° Cancer 04'℞
Uranus6° Scorpio 29'℞
Neptune13° Sagittarius 57'℞
Pluto10° Libra 37'℞
North Node13° Scorpio 20'
South Node13° Taurus 20'

Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.

Chester Bennington’s planets, sign by sign

Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Chester Bennington’s private life.

  1. Sun in Pisces or Aries

    Pisces until about 04:50, then Aries

    purpose and vitality

    Born before about 04:50: Sun in Pisces

    The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Chester Bennington's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.

    Born after about 04:50: Sun in Aries

    With the Sun in Aries, Chester's sense of purpose tends to come alive when there is a clear start line. They probably feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though that energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. The typical pattern is a project launched with excitement, then handed off once the routine sets in.

  2. Moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius

    Scorpio until about 03:35, then Sagittarius

    needs and habits

    Born before about 03:35: Moon in Scorpio

    For Chester, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.

    Born after about 03:35: Moon in Sagittarius

    The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Chester edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.

  3. Mercury in Pisces

    19° Pisces 03' at midday

    mind and voice

    Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Chester is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.

  4. Venus in Pisces

    7° Pisces 05' at midday

    love and values

    Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Chester probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.

  5. Mars in Cancer

    0° Cancer 59' at midday

    drive and anger

    Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Chester, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.

  6. Jupiter in Aries

    28° Aries 42' at midday

    growth and excess

    Jupiter in Aries grows through bold, direct action and taking the first step before feeling fully ready. Chester's overreach, on this reading, is starting more than can realistically be finished. A burst of confidence tends to get a new venture off the ground, whether or not the groundwork is in place.

  7. Saturn in Cancer

    26° Cancer 04' at midday ℞

    discipline and doubt

    Emotional security is where Chester's Saturn in Cancer builds discipline; it is a placement often associated with learning early to be the steady one. Asking for care tends to be difficult with this Saturn, even when care is clearly needed. Over time, people with this placement often become the dependable anchor for others, including some who never quite return the favour.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio

    6° Scorpio 29' at midday ℞

    freedom, generational

    Much of Chester's age group has Uranus in Scorpio. It changes attitudes to power, secrecy and what is held in common, often while living through upheavals in institutions once considered permanent. In an individual it tends to be a low tolerance for hidden agendas.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius

    13° Sagittarius 57' at midday ℞

    imagination, generational

    Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Chester in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.

  10. Pluto in Libra

    10° Libra 37' at midday ℞

    power, generational

    Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Chester belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.

Aspects in Chester Bennington’s chart

How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.

  1. Venus trine Uranus

    about 0.6° at midday

    Closeness does not have to feel confining for Chester Bennington, because under this trine affection and independence sit easily together. Excitement and stability manage to coexist, more comfortably than the usual choice between the two would suggest.

  2. Sun square Mars

    about 0.7° at midday

    Impatience, or a habit of picking fights that did not need picking, can come from the clash between Chester's sense of self and their drive to act. With the Sun square Mars, a pause between the impulse and the action turns this friction into determination they can use.

  3. Mars sextile Jupiter

    about 2.3° at midday

    There is confident, well-aimed energy in this sextile, and not much wasted effort, since Chester's drive and optimism pull together. Taking the initiative suits Chester, above all when they commit to one goal and do not scatter their energy across several.

  4. Jupiter square Saturn

    about 2.6° at midday

    Enthusiasm for growth can run into limits here, whether practical or self-imposed, and to Chester it may feel as though ambition keeps outrunning the time and energy available. Jupiter square Saturn works best when the limit is treated as a pace-setter and not as a wall.

  5. Sun trine Saturn

    about 4.2° at midday

    Effort and identity feel like the same project under a Sun-Saturn trine, because Chester's sense of self and capacity for discipline reinforce each other. What they build tends to last, since ambition and patience are already in agreement.

  6. Mercury square Neptune

    about 5.1° at midday

    Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Chester is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.

The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.

  • Neptune sextile Plutoabout 3.3°
  • Mars trine Uranusabout 5.5°
  • Venus trine Marsabout 6.1°
  • Jupiter opposition Uranusabout 7.8°

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How this page is made

Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.

Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).

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