What zodiac sign was Ben Roy Mottelson?

Ben Roy Mottelson was a Cancer: born July 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.

What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1926 birth.

What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Life Path number?

Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.

What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Ben Roy Mottelson's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Ben Roy Mottelson's dominant planet?

Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Ben Roy Mottelson

Ben Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926, Chicago, United States; died 2022), was a Danish-American nuclear physicist. Mottelson is best remembered for Nuclear Structure. Mottelson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Atoms for Peace Award and Ole Rømer Medal.

Ben Roy Mottelson’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Ben

Ben Roy Mottelson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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

Of the names registered in 1926, Ben came 155th among boys and 2,484th among girls, carried by 1,013 American boys and 14 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ben’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · versatility

Soul Urge · independence

Personality · quietly formidable

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

7 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

The record

What sets Ben apart

Tom Hanks (1956) and Courtney Love (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ben, according to the stars

Core essence

Ben feels the room before entering it. The core of Ben is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Ben, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Ben is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Ben needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Ben wants to be loved

Ben wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Ben like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ben is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ben gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Ben

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ben Roy Mottelson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ben’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 74.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.2° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Ben's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets

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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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Feeds you before you ask.

Ben Roy Mottelson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 9, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Ben Roy Mottelson was born on July 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Ben Roy Mottelson's birth date, July 9, 1926, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Ben’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Ben Roy Mottelson's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
Ben Roy Mottelson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.

Ben’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Cancer depending on the hour.

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

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

stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 6.7° orb
Ben’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareMars0.1° to 0.5° orb
Ben’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.2° to 0.4° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquarePluto1.8° to 2.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire3 of 10
Earth0 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water5 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal4 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironTaurus 1°50′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°21′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°11′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 10°14′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Eros opposition Pluto 0.1°
Eros square Mars 2.2°
Eros opposition Sun 2.5°
Hygiea sextile Venus 2.5°
Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.8°

Ben’s dominant planets

1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Ben’s chart

T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.3°
Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Venus quintile Uranus 1.3°
Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°

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All about Cancer →

Born in Tiger years

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Year of the Tiger →

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What a Day Master is →

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The Steadfast Visionary explained →

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs

Ben’s cards

Computed from July 9, 1926. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

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 Q107423 (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 GFHund, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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

Quick answers about Ben Roy Mottelson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ben Roy Mottelson?: Ben Roy Mottelson was a Cancer: born July 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1926 birth.
What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Life Path number?: Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ben Roy Mottelson's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ben Roy Mottelson's dominant planet?: Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.