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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

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

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

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Intimate circleWide network
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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Ben’s chart

Ben’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ben Feringa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° 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.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Ben’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb

    Ben’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn1.7° to 2.5° orb

    Ben’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

    Ben’s affections grind against their growth.

  • 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

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

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Ben is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

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

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Ben is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

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

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Ben is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

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

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Ben needing solitude to reset.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Ben that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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.

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

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. 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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ben is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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.

  • 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 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Feringa, 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 May 18, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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

No birth time is on public record for Ben Feringa, 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 Q3259614, 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 Wybe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ben Feringa at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
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 time was Ben Feringa 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 Feringa's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 18, 1951 birth date.
What is Ben Feringa's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 18, 1951 birth date.
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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