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Ben Feringa

Ben Feringa (born May 18, 1951, Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands), aged 75, is a Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry. Feringa's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and Humboldt Prize.

Ben Feringa’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Ben Feringa’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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 255th among boys and 4,886th among girls in 1951, the year of this birth, with 687 American boys and 6 girls 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

11

Soul Urge · insight

7

Personality · composed, private

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

3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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

Ben Feringa took the Spinoza Prize in 2004, at 53.

University of Groningen shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Ben Feringa under Spinoza Prize winners, Dutch organic chemists and University of Groningen alumni.

Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Groningen
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016), Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2025) and Humboldt Prize (2012)
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
English and Dutch
Wikipedia editions
57

What the chart says

Ben, according to the stars

Core essence

Ben is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Ben is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

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 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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ben is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Ben is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ben

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
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You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

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 Feringa

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

Ben’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 27.9° 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 Barger-Compascuum that night

Computed for 52.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Phecda stood nearest the zenith over Barger-Compascuum at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 52.8°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −37.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Barger-Compascuum on any night.

The Moon, 92% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands
Lives in
Groningen

Wikidata records Groningen as Ben Feringa's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ben Feringa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Ben's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Ben Feringa at a glance

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Ben Feringa's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Ben Feringa was born on May 18, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Ben Feringa's birth date, May 18, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 11° to 25° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.1° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.2° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.2° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.1° orbSun in Taurus · 26°42′☉26°Moon in Libra · 18°24′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 2°03′☿2°Venus in Cancer · 8°23′♀8°Mars in Taurus · 27°44′♂27°Jupiter in Aries · 5°39′♃5°Saturn in Virgo · 25°38′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Cancer · 7°09′♅7°Neptune in Libra · 17°11′ · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Leo · 17°30′♇17°

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb

    Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.6° to 1.6° orb

    Ben’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb

    Ben’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.9° to 1.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn1.7° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.6° to 16.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 4.3° to 18.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.8° to 5.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 1°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 9°16′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 15°48′ (moves 0.49° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 13°08′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 24°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mercury 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Venus 0.9°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.1°

Ben’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ben’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 biquintile Saturn 0.4°

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Ben’s cards

Computed from May 18, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3259614 (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 Wybe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ben Feringa 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 Feringa.

Quick answers about Ben Feringa’s chart

How old is Ben Feringa?
Ben Feringa is 75 years old, born May 18, 1951 in Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands.
What zodiac sign is Ben Feringa?
Ben Feringa is a Taurus: born May 18, 1951, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Ben Feringa's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1951 birth.
What is Ben Feringa's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Ben Feringa's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ben Feringa's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ben Feringa's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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