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Ben Powers

Ben Powers (born October 29, 1996, Wichita, United States), aged 30, is an American football player (born 1996). Powers has played for Baltimore Ravens and Oklahoma Sooners football.

Ben Powers’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Ben Powers’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

In 1996, 315 American boys were registered Ben — 578th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ben’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

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

1 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Crimson · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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

Study took Ben Powers to Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School.

On Wikipedia the categories read Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School alumni, Butler Grizzlies football players and Players of American football from Wichita, Kansas.

D'Angelo Ross shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Ben, according to the stars

Core essence

Ben does not do surface. The core of Ben is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ben is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Ben processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Ben needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Ben creates

How Ben makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ben creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Ben is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ben is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ben leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ben fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Ben

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ben

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ben

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ben

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ben

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ben

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ben Powers

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wichita 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 Wichita that night

Computed for 37.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Wichita at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 9.6° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.

Wichita sits at 37.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −52.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wichita on any night.

The Moon, 86% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.

How unusual Ben's chart is

Chart pattern score

59 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Mars · 3 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Ben Powers's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Ben Powers was born on October 29, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Ben Powers's birth date, October 29, 1996, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Ben’s chart

Ben’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.8° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.3° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 6°36′☉6°Moon in Gemini · 15°21′☽15°Mercury in Scorpio · 4°31′☿4°Venus in Libra · 0°18′♀0°Mars in Leo · 29°42′♂29°Jupiter in Capricorn · 12°27′♃12°Saturn in Aries · 1°38′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Aquarius · 0°48′♅0°Neptune in Capricorn · 25°08′♆25°Pluto in Sagittarius · 1°59′♇1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Ben’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Ben’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.7° to 2.0° orb

    Ben’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto2.0° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus2.9° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.6° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Ben’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 22°41′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 24°39′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 10°15′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 14°24′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.9°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.4°

Ben’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Ben’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Saturn, Uranus, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 1.1°
  • Mars biquintile Neptune 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.9°

Born the same day as Ben

D'Angelo Ross was born on October 29, 1996 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 37.7°N, the sky above Wichita stops at −52.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes

Ben’s cards

Computed from October 29, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q61302667 (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 Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ben Powers at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ben Powers.

Quick answers about Ben Powers’s chart

How old is Ben Powers?
Ben Powers is 30 years old, born October 29, 1996 in Wichita, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ben Powers?
Ben Powers is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1996, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Ben Powers's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1996 birth.
How tall is Ben Powers?
Ben Powers is 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Ben Powers's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Ben Powers's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ben Powers's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ben Powers's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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