Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley (born December 31, 1943, Snainton, United Kingdom), aged 82, is an English actor (born 1943). Kingsley's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Knight Bachelor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Ben Kingsley’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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Ben Kingsley’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, 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
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Ben’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ben is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Ben is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Ben needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ben even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ben creates
How Ben makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ben creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Ben is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ben is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Ben scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Ben's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Ben Kingsley at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Ben Kingsley's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 31, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Ben Kingsley was born on December 31, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Ben Kingsley's birth date, December 31, 1943, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Ben’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Kingsley's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.
- Ben Kingsley combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ben Kingsley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Pisces 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.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Ben’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.1° orb
Ben’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Ben’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.3° to 2.6° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
Ben’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° orb
Ben’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
Ben’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° orb
Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
Ben’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.7° orb
Ben’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 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 ℞Virgo 15°49′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Ben turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 29°48′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ben feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°59′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Ben is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°30′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Ben is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 24°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Ben is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.2°
- Eros square Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.9°
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. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Ben is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Kingsley, 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 December 31, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ben Kingsley, 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 Q173158, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Kingsley at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Kingsley.
Quick answers about Ben Kingsley’s chart
- How old is Ben Kingsley?
- Ben Kingsley is 82 years old, born December 31, 1943 in Snainton, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Kingsley?
- Ben Kingsley is a Capricorn: born December 31, 1943, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- What is Ben Kingsley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1943 birth.
- What time was Ben Kingsley 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 Kingsley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 31, 1943 birth date.
- What is Ben Kingsley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 31, 1943 birth date.
- Where is Ben Kingsley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Kingsley's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
