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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ben
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
Ben ranked 310th among boys and 7,350th among girls in 1972, the year of this birth, with 591 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ben’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt, not the name they published under.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ben’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Ben apart
Abiy Ahmed (1976) and Melinda Gates (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Sport
- poker
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Spanish and English
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. Working below.
Where Ben sits
Six lines
Ben’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 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.
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 Ben Affleck
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Read from the sky above Berkeley at 02:53, Ben Affleck’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Berkeley that night
Computed for 37.87°N, at the documented birth time.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Berkeley at the birth hour, 79.4° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Berkeley on any night.
The Moon, 35% lit at first quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt
- Known as
- Ben Affleck
- Born in
- Berkeley, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Ben Affleck's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Berkeley, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as supportive for this chart: 70 of 100, 42nd of 165 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Reykjavik, Iceland, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Ben's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 未.
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
23 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Ben Affleck's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MoontrineVenusapplying · 2.7° orb
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 3.1° orb
SunsextileSaturnseparating · 4.1° orb
MoonsextileMarsseparating · 4.5° orb
MercurysextileUranusseparating · 4.6° orb
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 6.0° orb
MoonsquareMercuryapplying · 6.1° orb
SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°05′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°59′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°05′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°59′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 19°18′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ben’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ben’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 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
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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3 relatives of Ben Affleck also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Ben’s cards
Computed from August 15, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483118 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Nomoretitanic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Affleck at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Ben Affleck.
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.
- 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.
- What is Ben Affleck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
