Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes (born August 20, 1981, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 01:30), aged 45, is a British actor and singer.
Ben Barnes’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Ben Barnes’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Ben apart
Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Ben needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Ben gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Ben creates
How Ben makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ben creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Ben is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Ben is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Ben does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Ben's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ben sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Ben Barnes at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Ben Barnes'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.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Ben Barnes was born on August 20, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Ben Barnes's birth date, August 20, 1981, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Ben’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ben Barnes' timed chart: Moon in the 10th house, Venus in the 4th house, Mars in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 4th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Barnes' timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ben Barnes combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Ben’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), 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
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb
Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 0.6° orb
Ben’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 0.6° orb
Ben’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MarssquarePlutoapplying · 0.6° orb
Ben’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareUranusseparating · 0.7° orb
Ben’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 1.1° orb
Ben’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.0° orb
Ben’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SuntrineMoonapplying · 4.1° orb
Ben’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
MarstrineUranusapplying · 4.5° orb
Ben’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
Ben’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb
Ben’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.6° orb
Ben’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenusconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.7° orb
Ben’s affections and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°50′ · House 11
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ben building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 10°25′ · 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.
♡ ErosTaurus 10°34′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Ben wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 18°29′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Ben is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°00′ · 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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Ascendant 1.8°
- Eros sextile Ascendant 2.0°
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. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Mars; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Ben is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
Stellium in Libra · Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Kite · Sun, Moon, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Mars · Moon, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mercury 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.8°
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 10 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 2 | Sun | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 3 | Mercury | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 4 | Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 4 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 4 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 4 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 1 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 4 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 3 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from August 20, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310086, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Ben Barnes’s chart
- How old is Ben Barnes?
- Ben Barnes is 45 years old, born August 20, 1981 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Barnes?
- Ben Barnes is a Leo: born August 20, 1981, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster.
- What is Ben Barnes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1981 birth.
- What time was Ben Barnes born?
- 01:30 local time in Cambridge, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Ben Barnes's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 01:30 birth time in Cambridge, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Ben Barnes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the August 20, 1981 birth date.
- What is Ben Barnes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 20, 1981 birth time.
- Where is Ben Barnes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°, 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 Barnes's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Mars; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
