Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt; August 15, 1972, Berkeley, United States, 02:53), aged 54, is an American actor, director and screenwriter. Notable films include Shakespeare in Love, Good Will Hunting and Suicide Squad. Affleck's honours include Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay and Saturn Awards.
Ben Affleck’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Ben Affleck’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ben in the U.S.?
#843
US rank in 2025
~85,816
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ben’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ben, according to the stars
Core essence
Ben is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ben 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, Ben feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ben needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben 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. Ben gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Ben creates
How Ben makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ben creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ben is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ben is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ben 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 Ben's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Ben Affleck's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Ben Affleck was born on August 15, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Ben Affleck's birth date, August 15, 1972, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Ben’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ben Affleck's timed chart: Venus in the 1st house, Uranus in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Affleck's timed chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Ben Affleck combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Ben’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarstrineJupiterseparating · 1.6° orb
Ben’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 1.8° orb
Ben’s growth grinds against their depths.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.0° orb
Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 2.2° orb
Ben’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineVenusapplying · 2.7° orb
Ben’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 3.1° orb
Ben’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
SunsextileSaturnseparating · 4.1° orb
Ben’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileMarsseparating · 4.5° orb
Ben’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysextileUranusseparating · 4.6° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 6.0° orb
Ben’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
MoonsquareMercuryapplying · 6.1° orb
Ben’s feelings grind against their mind.
SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 7.6° orb
Ben’s core identity and drive act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Ben’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°05′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ben may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°59′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ben caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°05′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Ben is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°59′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Ben carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 19°18′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Ben is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros trine Ascendant 0.5°
- Eros trine Venus 0.6°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Ben’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Ben is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Ben’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Sun quintile Moon 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.2°
Ben’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 5 | Venus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 2 | Sun, Mercury | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 2 | Mars | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | Uranus, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 4 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 6 | Jupiter, Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 3 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 2 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from August 15, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483118, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Nomoretitanic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Ben Affleck’s chart
- How old is Ben Affleck?
- Ben Affleck is 54 years old, born August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Affleck?
- Ben Affleck is a Leo: born August 15, 1972, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Ben Affleck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 15, 1972 birth.
- What time was Ben Affleck born?
- 02:53 local time in Berkeley, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Ben Affleck's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 02:53 birth time in Berkeley, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Ben Affleck?
- Ben Affleck is 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ben Affleck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the August 15, 1972 birth date.
- What is Ben Affleck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 15, 1972 birth time.
- Where is Ben Affleck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 19°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Affleck's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
