Ben Sheppard
Ben Sheppard (born July 16, 2001, Atlanta, United States), aged 25, is an American basketball player (born 2001). Sheppard has played for Belmont Bruins men's basketball.
Ben Sheppard’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Ben Sheppard’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal 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
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
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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 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.
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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ben creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Ben is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ben has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Ben's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Ben Sheppard at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Ben Sheppard's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 16, 2001, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Ben Sheppard was born on July 16, 2001, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Ben Sheppard's birth date, July 16, 2001, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Ben’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Sheppard's date-only chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ben Sheppard combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ben Sheppard, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° 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.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.4° orb
Ben’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.9° to 1.9° orb
Ben’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
Ben’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.3° orb
Ben’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionMars2.5° to 3.7° orb
Ben’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
Ben’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.5° to 4.7° orb
Ben’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb
Ben’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
Ben’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrineUranus6.7° to 7.0° orb
Ben’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 24°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Ben building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 13°46′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Ben caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLeo 9°13′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Ben loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Ben needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ben at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.1°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.4°
- Eros sextile Venus 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 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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Ben is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Sheppard, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Ben
Micah Peavy was born on July 16, 2001 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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Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 2001, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ben Sheppard, 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 Q100922242, 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.
The same Ben Sheppard at Wikipedia.
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 Sheppard.
Quick answers about Ben Sheppard’s chart
- How old is Ben Sheppard?
- Ben Sheppard is 25 years old, born July 16, 2001 in Atlanta, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Sheppard?
- Ben Sheppard is a Cancer: born July 16, 2001, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Ben Sheppard's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 2001 birth.
- What time was Ben Sheppard 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.
- How tall is Ben Sheppard?
- Ben Sheppard is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ben Sheppard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 2001 birth date.
- What is Ben Sheppard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 2001 birth date.
- Where is Ben Sheppard's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Sheppard's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
