Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller (born Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller; November 30, 1965, New York City, United States, 17:35), aged 60, is an American actor and comedian. Stiller is best known for Madagascar and Night at the Museum. Stiller's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series and MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
Ben Stiller’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Ben
Ben Stiller’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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 1965, 727 American boys and 5 girls were registered Ben — 276th among boys and 6,612th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ben’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
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Soul Urge · being needed
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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
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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
Night at the Museum and Madagascar. That is the work the name is attached to.
Ben Stiller was taught at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Cathedral School of St. John the Divine.
Ben Stiller was 10 when the work began in 1975.
Ben Stiller was born to Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, married Christine Taylor and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Audacy people, Comedians from Manhattan and American writers of Irish descent.
Winston Churchill (1874) and Kaley Cuoco (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Night at the Museum and Madagascar
- Educated at
- UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Cathedral School of St. John the Divine and Calhoun School
- Awards
- MTV Movie Award for Best Villain (2005)
- Working from
- 1975
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 87
What the chart says
Ben, according to the stars
Core essence
Ben is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ben is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Ben is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Ben needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ben you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ben does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Read from the sky above New York City at 17:35, Ben Stiller’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, at the documented birth time.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over New York City at the birth hour, 74.2° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 47% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller
- Known as
- Ben Stiller
- Born in
- New York City, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Ben's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Minister 天相 in 卯
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/6
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury
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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Ben Stiller's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Ben Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Ben Stiller's birth date, November 30, 1965, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Ben’s chart
- Seven of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ben Stiller's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Moon in the 10th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 10th house, Uranus in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Stiller's timed chart is Uranus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ben Stiller combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Ben’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Ben’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 1.1° orb
Ben’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssextileSaturnseparating · 1.9° orb
Ben’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.1° orb
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 2.2° orb
SunsquareMoonapplying · 3.1° orb
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 3.1° orb
VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 4.3° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 4.6° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 5.3° orb
MoonconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb
VenustrineUranusseparating · 5.4° orb
MercurysquareUranusseparating · 5.6° orb
MarstrinePlutoapplying · 5.7° orb
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 6.4° orb
MarstrineUranusapplying · 6.7° orb
MoontrineJupiterseparating · 6.9° orb
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ben’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°58′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°02′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°02′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°23′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°26′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.7°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.5°
- Eros square Sun 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Eros square Mercury 2.8°
Ben’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter9.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn9 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; angular in the tenth house; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Ben’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Saturn, 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 semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
Ben’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 7 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 10 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 7 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 7 | Uranus, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 4 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 1 | Sun, Mercury | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 10 | Venus, Mars | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 6 | Moon, Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Ben Stiller also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Ben’s cards
Computed from November 30, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q47100 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ben Stiller.
Quick answers about Ben Stiller’s chart
- How old is Ben Stiller?
- Ben Stiller is 60 years old, born November 30, 1965 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ben Stiller?
- Ben Stiller is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1965, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Ben Stiller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1965 birth.
- What time was Ben Stiller born?
- 17:35 local time in New York City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Ben Stiller's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 17:35 birth time in New York City, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Ben Stiller?
- Ben Stiller is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ben Stiller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ben Stiller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ben Stiller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 16°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ben Stiller's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
