Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson (born June 13, 1918, Foraker, United States; died 1996), was an American actor. Johnson's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Ben Johnson’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Ben Johnson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
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) × mutable 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 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
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 is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Ben needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Ben needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Ben needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Ben is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Ben creates
How Ben makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ben creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ben is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: 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.
Where Ben sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Foraker on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Ben Johnson at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Ben Johnson's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Ben Johnson was born on June 13, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Ben Johnson's birth date, June 13, 1918, 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
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Johnson's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ben Johnson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ben Johnson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Leo 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.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.3° to 1.3° orb
Ben’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.5° to 2.3° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.1° to 1.8° orb
Ben’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMarssquareJupiter2.2° to 2.4° orb
Ben’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareMars3.4° to 4.0° orb
Ben’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.3° to 4.5° orb
Ben’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb
Ben’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.9° orb
Ben’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 1.3° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 2.6° to 13.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 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.
⚷ ChironAries 3°15′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ben may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 5°10′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Ben caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosTaurus or Gemini during this date
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.
⚕ HygieaAries 15°39′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Ben feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Ben that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.5°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.0°
- Eros square 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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Ben is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, 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 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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Johnson, 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 June 13, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ben Johnson, 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 Q349166, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Johnson 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 Johnson.
Quick answers about Ben Johnson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ben Johnson?
- Ben Johnson was a Gemini: born June 13, 1918, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Ben Johnson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1918 birth.
- What time was Ben Johnson 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 was Ben Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1918 birth date.
- What was Ben Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Ben Johnson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ben Johnson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
