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Ben Saraf

Ben Saraf (born April 14, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa), aged 20, is an Israeli basketball player (born 2006). Saraf has played for Ratiopharm Ulm.

Ben Saraf’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Ben Saraf’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, 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 2006, 455 American boys were registered Ben — 551st 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.

3

Expression · expression and voice

7

Soul Urge · understanding

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

8 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

The record

What sets Ben apart

Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) and Adrien Brody (1973) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Ben is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Ben wants to be loved

Ben wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Ben, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ben is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ben

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Ben

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ben

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Ben

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

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 Saraf

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

Ben’s birth-night reference starAlphardwarm orange · HydraAlphard, in Hydra. A warm orange star, 68.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphard →The warmest lightRigil Kentaurusyellow · CentaurusRigil Kentaurus, in Centaurus. A yellow star, 35.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Rigil Kentaurus →

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

The sky over Johannesburg that night

Computed for 26.20°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Johannesburg was Alphard, in Hydra, 68.1° up.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Johannesburg sits at 26.2°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

How unusual Ben's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Ben Saraf in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Ben Saraf's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 2006, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Ben Saraf was born on April 14, 2006, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Ben Saraf's birth date, April 14, 2006, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 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 26° to 8° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.7° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.9° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.3° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.9° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.4° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun in Aries · 24°19′☉24°Moon in Scorpio · 2°30′☽2°Mercury in Pisces · 27°21′☿27°Venus in Pisces · 8°55′♀8°Mars in Cancer · 0°13′♂0°Jupiter in Scorpio · 16°27′ · retrograde♃℞16°Saturn in Leo · 4°27′♄4°Uranus in Pisces · 13°05′♅13°Neptune in Aquarius · 19°26′♆19°Pluto in Sagittarius · 26°41′ · retrograde♇℞26°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.3° orb

    Ben’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSuntrinePluto1.9° to 2.9° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.5° to 3.2° orb

    Ben’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto3.2° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.7° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.7° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 2.5° to 13.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 9°13′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 15°57′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 10°14′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 22°22′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°01′ (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 opposition Venus 0.1°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.9°

Ben’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Ben’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Pluto, MercuryAn 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.

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°

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Ben’s cards

Computed from April 14, 2006. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q117359974 (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 Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ben Saraf at Wikipedia and Instagram.

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

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

Quick answers about Ben Saraf’s chart

How old is Ben Saraf?
Ben Saraf is 20 years old, born April 14, 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
What zodiac sign is Ben Saraf?
Ben Saraf is an Aries: born April 14, 2006, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Ben Saraf's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 2006 birth.
How tall is Ben Saraf?
Ben Saraf is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Ben Saraf's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Ben Saraf's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ben Saraf's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ben Saraf's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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