Ben Okri
Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria), aged 67, is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Okri is best known for Every Leaf a Hallelujah, Songs of Enchantment and Starbook. Okri's honours include Booker Prize, Knight Bachelor and Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Ben Okri’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Ben Okri’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Ben is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Ben creates
How Ben makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Ben creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Ben is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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.
Where Ben sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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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.
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Ben Okri's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 15, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Ben Okri was born on March 15, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Ben Okri's birth date, March 15, 1959, 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 Okri's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ben Okri combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ben Okri, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.0° to 7.6° orb
Ben’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.4° orb
Ben’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.5° orb
Ben’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.7° to 1.4° orb
Ben’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileUranus2.8° to 3.4° orb
Ben’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Ben’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars4.1° to 4.2° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.2° to 5.8° orb
Ben’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.2° orb
Ben’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.7° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 24°49′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Ben making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ben is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 2°26′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Ben is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°56′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Ben needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ben is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Eros square Pluto 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.4°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.2°
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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Ben is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Okri, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Ben
Uday Kotak was born on March 15, 1959 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from March 15, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ben Okri, 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 Q315362, 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 Metsavend, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Okri 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 Okri.
Quick answers about Ben Okri’s chart
- How old is Ben Okri?
- Ben Okri is 67 years old, born March 15, 1959 in Minna, Nigeria.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Okri?
- Ben Okri is a Pisces: born March 15, 1959, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Ben Okri's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 15, 1959 birth.
- What time was Ben Okri 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 Okri's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the March 15, 1959 birth date.
- What is Ben Okri's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 15, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Ben Okri's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Okri's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
