Ben Skowronek
Ben Skowronek (born June 27, 1997, Indianapolis, United States), aged 29, is an American football player (born 1997). Skowronek has played for Northwestern Wildcats football and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football.
Ben Skowronek’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Ben
Ben Skowronek’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 372 American boys named Ben in 1997: 534th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ben’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1997, 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 Skowronek was taught at Homestead High School and Northwestern University.
Wikipedia files Ben Skowronek under Players of American football from Fort Wayne, Indiana, Northwestern Wildcats football players and American football special teamers.
Tobey Maguire (1975) and Khloé Kardashian (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Homestead High School and Northwestern University
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Ben needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Ben gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ben is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ben fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Skowronek
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis that night
Computed for 39.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Indianapolis at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.3° above the horizon in Boötes.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Indianapolis sits at 39.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Indianapolis at all: they sit past the −50.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 44% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Ben's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Sun · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Ben Skowronek's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 27, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Ox
Fire OxStubborn, and usually right.
Ben Skowronek was born on June 27, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Ben Skowronek's birth date, June 27, 1997, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Ben’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Skowronek's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ben Skowronek combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Aries 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 5.9° orb
Ben’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Ben’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextilePluto0.2° to 0.7° orb
Ben’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 5.5° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.4° to 4.8° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ben’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 25°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 13°37′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 7°05′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°09′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.4°
- Eros square Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.7°
Ben’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ben’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 2.0°
More people like Ben
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More charts like Ben’s
Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on June 27
- Tobey Maguire1975
- Khloé Kardashian1984
- Vera Wang1949
- Sam Claflin1986
- Wagner Moura1976
- Matthieu Blazy1984
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Gessime YassineMoroccan footballer
- Robin RoefsDutch association football player (born 2003)
- Braxton BerriosAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Rodrigo BentancurUruguayan association football player
- Saša KalajdžićAustrian association football player
- A. J. BrownAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Tim SettleAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Gilded Pioneers
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- Michael PhelpsAmerican swimmer
- Bruno MarsAmerican singer-songwriter and record producer
- Gillian AndersonAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 5
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- Durham SmytheAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Ben’s cards
Computed from June 27, 1997. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102046795 (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 Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Skowronek 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 Skowronek.
Quick answers about Ben Skowronek’s chart
- How old is Ben Skowronek?
- Ben Skowronek is 29 years old, born June 27, 1997 in Indianapolis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Skowronek?
- Ben Skowronek is a Cancer: born June 27, 1997, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Ben Skowronek's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 27, 1997 birth.
- How tall is Ben Skowronek?
- Ben Skowronek is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ben Skowronek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ben Skowronek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ben Skowronek's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Skowronek's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
