Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948, Jamesville, United States), aged 78, is an American sound designer and film director. Burtt's honours include Academy Award for Best Sound Editing and Special Achievement Academy Award.
Ben Burtt’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Ben Burtt’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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
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
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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 feels the room before entering it. The core of Ben is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Ben, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ben cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Ben needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Ben like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ben is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Ben Burtt at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Ben Burtt's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Ben Burtt was born on July 12, 1948, which falls in a Earth 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 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Ben Burtt's birth date, July 12, 1948, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Ben’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Burtt's date-only chart is Mars square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Ben Burtt combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ben Burtt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 7.7° orb
Ben’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareUranus0.1° to 0.7° orb
Ben’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.5° to 0.8° orb
Ben’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareMars2.1° to 2.8° orb
Ben’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.4° to 3.0° orb
Ben’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.0° orb
Ben’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysquareMars3.1° orb
Ben’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb
Ben’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.0° to 4.1° orb
Ben’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.0° orb
Ben’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareJupiter6.2° to 6.9° orb
Ben’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 18°26′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Ben carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresCancer 3°44′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Ben is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCancer 5°56′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Ben is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°23′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
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 LilithAquarius 28°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ben at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.7°
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 and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Burtt, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from July 12, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ben Burtt, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q816456, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Jo!Hannes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Burtt at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ben Burtt.
Quick answers about Ben Burtt’s chart
- How old is Ben Burtt?
- Ben Burtt is 78 years old, born July 12, 1948 in Jamesville, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Burtt?
- Ben Burtt is a Cancer: born July 12, 1948, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- What is Ben Burtt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1948 birth.
- What time was Ben Burtt born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Ben Burtt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1948 birth date.
- What is Ben Burtt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1948 birth date.
- Where is Ben Burtt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Burtt's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
