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, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ben
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
Ben ranked 192nd among boys and 4,749th among girls in 1943, the year of this birth, with 835 American boys and 5 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Kingsley took the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in 1981, at 38.
Pendleton College and The Manchester Grammar School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1966, at 23.
On the family side, Ben Kingsley was married Daniela Lavender and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Ben Kingsley under English people of Gujarati descent, Actors from the City of Salford and British people of Zanzibari descent.
Anthony Hopkins (1937) and Baron Waqa (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Pendleton College, The Manchester Grammar School and University of Salford
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1983), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1983) and Knight Bachelor (2001)
- Nominated for
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award
- Working from
- 1966
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 87
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. Working below.
Where Ben sits
Six lines
Ben’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Kingsley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Snainton 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 Snainton that night
Computed for 54.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Miram stood nearest the zenith over Snainton at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.9° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 54.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Snainton at all: they sit past the −35.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 28% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Ben's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
6 planets retrograde · Mars retrograde
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 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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Pisces 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
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
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 15°49′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 29°48′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°59′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°30′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 24°35′ (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 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°
Ben’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ben’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
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Ben’s cards
Computed from December 31, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q173158 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Ben Kingsley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ben Kingsley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
