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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Ben
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
The SSA recorded 1,276 American boys and 17 girls named Ben in 1918: 128th among boys and 2,112th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ben’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor came in 1972, when Ben Johnson was 54.
Ben Johnson was 21 when the work began in 1939.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Pawhuska City Cemetery as the resting place.
Wikipedia files Ben Johnson under Roping (rodeo), Male actors from Mesa, Arizona and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831) and Chris Evans (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1972), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1973) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1972)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1939
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Pawhuska City Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
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. Working below.
Where Ben sits
Six lines
Ben’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ben Johnson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Foraker on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Foraker that night
Computed for 36.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Foraker at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 2.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Foraker sits at 36.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Foraker at all: they sit past the −53.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon up and 27% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Foraker, United States
The death is recorded at Mesa, Maricopa County in 1996.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ben Johnson: 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 Gemini · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunsquareMars3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 3°15′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 5°10′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus or Gemini during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 15°39′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ben’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ben’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on June 13
- James Clerk Maxwell1831
- Chris Evans1981
- Luis Walter Alvarez1911
- Paavo Nurmi1897
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala1954
- Kat Dennings1986
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Jamie Campbell BowerBritish actor
- Coco GauffAmerican tennis player
- Russell BrandEnglish comedian, actor, and podcaster
Other Gemini Horse charts
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Other Gilded Seekers
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Ben’s cards
Computed from June 13, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q349166 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Johnson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Ben Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ben Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
