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Layne Staley’s birth chart

Rock musicianBorn August 22, 1967, Bellevue, Washington, United StatesDied April 5, 2002

Warm, generous and made to be seen.

  • SunLeoThe Bright One
  • MoonPiscesor Aries
  • VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Leo, the Bright One

    Warm, generous and made to be seen. Makes a room feel brighter and wants the people in it to shine too. More sensitive to criticism than it looks. His mind and his identity were close together: he spoke as he thought, and his ideas were part of who he was.

    The Sun conjunction Mercury (close at 1.9°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Pisces or Aries, the Tide

    Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness.

    For a birth after 12:48 p.m., his Moon was in Aries.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic

    Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches. He kept weighing pleasure against duty, and joy came once the work was done.

    Venus quincunx Saturn (close at 1.8°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Leo, the Storyteller

    Speaks with warmth and confidence and tells a great story. Thinks in big, bold ideas. Facts and dreams blurred together in his mind: wonderful for stories, harder when details mattered.

    Mercury square Neptune (wide at 5.4°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist

    Quietly powerful. Works in private, holds nothing back, and does not give up. He took on more than any one person could, and his boldness ran ahead of his plans.

    Mars square Jupiter (almost exact at 0.1°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    In his chart, his identity, his mind and his optimism (the Sun, Mercury and Jupiter) gather in Leo, and that part of life drew his attention first. No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through took deliberate effort.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Layne Staley was born three days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 93% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Tuesday, 31 days before the September equinox.

  • Venus retrograde

    Venus was retrograde all the day Layne Staley was born, as it was on 42 days of 1967. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Layne Staley, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1997, at 29: his first Saturn return. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Leo

You and Layne Staley

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Layne Staley’s chart in full

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Questions about his chart

What is Layne Staley’s zodiac sign?

Leo. Layne Staley was born on August 22, 1967, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Warm, generous and made to be seen. Makes a room feel brighter and wants the people in it to shine too.

What is Layne Staley’s Moon sign?

Pisces or Aries. The Moon moved from Pisces into Aries at 12:48 p.m. that day, local time: in Pisces for a birth before then, in Aries for one after.

What is Layne Staley’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on August 22, 1967. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Layne Staley’s Venus sign?

Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches.

How does your chart compare with Layne Staley’s?

Set your chart beside Layne Staley’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Layne Staley’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Rex Aran Emrick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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