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Ben Bredeson

Ben Bredeson (born February 20, 1998, Hartland, United States), aged 28, is an American football player (born 1998). Bredeson has played for Michigan Wolverines football.

Ben Bredeson’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Ben Bredeson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 559th in 1998, the year of this birth, with 353 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ben’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

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

4 · 1 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Rose-gold · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, 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

Arrowhead High School shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Ben Bredeson under Sportspeople from Hartland, Wisconsin, Players of American football from Waukesha County, Wisconsin and American people of Norwegian descent.

Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Arrowhead High School
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Ben, according to the stars

Core essence

Ben feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Ben is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Ben is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Ben needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Ben wants to be loved

Ben wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ben you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Ben is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Ben slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Ben

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Ben

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ben

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ben

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ben Bredeson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hartland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ben’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 77.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 69.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hartland that night

Computed for 43.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Hartland at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.8° above the horizon in Gemini.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 43.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hartland at all: they sit past the −46.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 35% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Ben's chart is

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Pisces · A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree

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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Ben Bredeson's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Ben Bredeson was born on February 20, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Ben Bredeson's birth date, February 20, 1998, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Ben’s chart

Ben’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.3° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.3° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.1° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.6° orbSun in Pisces · 1°54′☉1°Moon in Sagittarius · 14°38′☽14°Mercury in Pisces · 0°35′☿0°Venus in Capricorn · 22°28′♀22°Mars in Pisces · 20°43′♂20°Jupiter in Pisces · 3°54′♃3°Saturn in Aries · 17°13′♄17°Uranus in Aquarius · 10°01′♅10°Neptune in Aquarius · 0°49′♆0°Pluto in Sagittarius · 7°58′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.7° orb

    Ben’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.6° to 2.4° orb

    Ben’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableVenussextileMars1.6° to 1.9° orb

    Ben’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 4.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.0° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.4° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Ben’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 18°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 0°24′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 22°17′ (moves 0.52° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 12°46′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 7°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 0.4°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.4°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.7°

Ben’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Ben’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.6°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.7°

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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?

Ben’s cards

Computed from February 20, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23883956 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ben Bredeson at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ben Bredeson.

Quick answers about Ben Bredeson’s chart

How old is Ben Bredeson?
Ben Bredeson is 28 years old, born February 20, 1998 in Hartland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ben Bredeson?
Ben Bredeson is a Pisces: born February 20, 1998, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Ben Bredeson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1998 birth.
How tall is Ben Bredeson?
Ben Bredeson is 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Ben Bredeson's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Ben Bredeson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ben Bredeson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ben Bredeson's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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