Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch (born July 19, 1976, Hammersmith, United Kingdom), aged 50, is an English actor. Notable films include Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War and 12 Years a Slave. Cumberbatch's honours include Order of the British Empire, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Benedict Cumberbatch’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Benedict in the U.S.?
#814
US rank in 2025
~10,475
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
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Benedict’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Benedict, according to the stars
Core essence
Benedict feels the room before entering it. The core of Benedict 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 Benedict, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Benedict wants to be loved
Benedict wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Benedict openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Benedict creates
How Benedict makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Benedict creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Benedict is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Benedict is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Benedict channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Benedict's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Benedict sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Benedict Cumberbatch's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 19, 1976, 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.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Benedict Cumberbatch was born on July 19, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Benedict Cumberbatch's birth date, July 19, 1976, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Benedict’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benedict Cumberbatch's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Benedict Cumberbatch combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Benedict’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Benedict Cumberbatch, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 4° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Benedict’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.7° to 2.8° orb
Benedict’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
Benedict’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb
Benedict’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
Benedict’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
Benedict’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 4.9° orb
Benedict’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenussextilePluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
Benedict’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.2° orb
Benedict’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.7° to 4.6° orb
Benedict’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.0° orb
Benedict’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Benedict’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Benedict’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°48′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
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 Benedict building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 0°15′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Benedict is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosGemini 13°39′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Benedict is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°44′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Benedict at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 29°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Benedict carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.8°
- Hygiea conjunction 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°).
Benedict’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Benedict is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Benedict’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benedict Cumberbatch, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Benedict’s cards
Every card is computed from July 19, 1976, 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 Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Benedict Cumberbatch, 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
Benedict’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q244674, 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.
Portrait by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benedict Cumberbatch at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
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Quick answers about Benedict Cumberbatch’s chart
- How old is Benedict Cumberbatch?
- Benedict Cumberbatch is 50 years old, born July 19, 1976 in Hammersmith, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Benedict Cumberbatch?
- Benedict Cumberbatch is a Cancer: born July 19, 1976, 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 Fire Dragon.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 19, 1976 birth.
- What time was Benedict Cumberbatch 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 Benedict Cumberbatch?
- Benedict Cumberbatch is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the July 19, 1976 birth date.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 19, 1976 birth date.
- Where is Benedict Cumberbatch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
