Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro (born Benjamin Aaron Shapiro; January 15, 1984, Los Angeles, United States, 12:57), aged 42, is an American conservative political commentator. Shapiro is best known for The Right Side of History, The Ben Shapiro Show and Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future. Shapiro's honours include Independence Day (Israel) torchbearer.
Ben Shapiro’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Pig, with 
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Ben Shapiro’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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
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Ben’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 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 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 wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Ben and watch them fall for you again.
How Ben creates
How Ben makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ben creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Ben is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Ben runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Ben's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ben sits
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Ben Shapiro's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Pig
Water PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Ben Shapiro was born on January 15, 1984, which falls in a Water 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 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Ben Shapiro's birth date, January 15, 1984, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Ben’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ben Shapiro's timed chart: Mars in the 7th house, Saturn in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Shapiro's timed chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ben Shapiro 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
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonoppositionVenusseparating · 0.4° orb
Ben’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.4° orb
Ben’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysextileMarsapplying · 0.5° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.7° orb
Ben’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 2.0° orb
Ben’s mind and imagination act as one.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.1° orb
Ben’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssextileNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb
Ben’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 2.7° orb
Ben’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
JupitersextilePlutoapplying · 2.8° orb
Ben’s growth opens doors for their depths.
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 3.2° orb
Ben’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.0° orb
Ben’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
MoonoppositionUranusseparating · 6.4° orb
Ben’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 28°00′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ben building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 6°45′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Ben is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosScorpio 15°28′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Ben is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 5°13′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ben is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°55′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Ben is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.4°
- Chiron conjunction Ascendant 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.8°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto9 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mars, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Ben is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Moon 0.6°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mars 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Ben’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 9 | Moon | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 2 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 7 | Mars, Saturn, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 8 | Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 7 | Sun, Mercury | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from January 15, 1984, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4886439, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Ben Shapiro’s chart
- How old is Ben Shapiro?
- Ben Shapiro is 42 years old, born January 15, 1984 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Shapiro?
- Ben Shapiro is a Capricorn: born January 15, 1984, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Pig.
- What is Ben Shapiro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 15, 1984 birth.
- What time was Ben Shapiro born?
- 12:57 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Ben Shapiro's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 12:57 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Ben Shapiro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the January 15, 1984 birth date.
- What is Ben Shapiro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 28°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 15, 1984 birth time.
- Where is Ben Shapiro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Shapiro's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
