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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Ben
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
In 2001, 394 American boys were registered Ben — 546th 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
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 2001, 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
Ben Sheppard was taught at Belmont University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Belmont Bruins men's basketball players, Greater Atlanta Christian School alumni and Indiana Mad Ants players.
Micah Peavy 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
- Belmont University
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
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. Working below.
Where Ben sits
Six lines
Ben’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ben Sheppard
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Atlanta 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 Atlanta that night
Computed for 33.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Atlanta at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.4° above the horizon in Boötes.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Atlanta sits at 33.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Atlanta at all: they sit past the −56.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon down and 19% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Ben's chart is
Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Earth planets · Mars retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
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
stableVenusoppositionMars2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.7° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 24°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 13°46′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 9°13′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ben’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ben’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.5°
Born the same day as Ben
Micah Peavy was born on July 16, 2001 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Atlanta, at 33.7°N, nothing below −56.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Ben
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Born in United States
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Born in Snake years
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- Christian BraunAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Also born on July 16
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- Hilary DuffAmerican actress and singer
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Other Cancer Snake charts
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Other Gilded Strategists
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Ben’s cards
Computed from July 16, 2001. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q100922242 (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.
The same Ben Sheppard 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Ben Sheppard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
