Benjamin Lawrence Reid
Benjamin Lawrence Reid (born May 3, 1918, Louisville, United States; died 1990), was an American professor and author. Reid's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Fulbright Scholarship.
Benjamin Lawrence Reid’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Benjamin Lawrence Reid’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Benjamin in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~829,312
Americans share it since 1880
1989
its peak year
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Benjamin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Benjamin, according to the stars
Core essence
Benjamin is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Benjamin is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Benjamin needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Benjamin needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Benjamin wants to be loved
Benjamin wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Benjamin, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Benjamin creates
How Benjamin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Benjamin 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: Benjamin is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Benjamin is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Benjamin 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 Benjamin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Benjamin Lawrence Reid was born on May 3, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Benjamin Lawrence Reid's birth date, May 3, 1918, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Benjamin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benjamin Lawrence Reid's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Benjamin Lawrence Reid combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Benjamin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Benjamin Lawrence Reid, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Aquarius 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.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.1° to 0.2° orb
Benjamin’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineMars1.4° to 2.2° orb
Benjamin’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.5° to 2.0° orb
Benjamin’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.1° to 2.6° orb
Benjamin’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Benjamin’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb
Benjamin’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus4.5° to 5.0° orb
Benjamin’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.8° to 6.3° orb
Benjamin’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableUranustrinePluto6.5° orb
Benjamin’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Benjamin’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.
⚷ ChironAries 1°49′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Benjamin may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°48′ (moves 0.01° 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 Benjamin caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 27°56′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Benjamin is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 3°57′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Benjamin feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Benjamin that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 Pluto 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.6°
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°).
Benjamin’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Benjamin is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Benjamin’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benjamin Lawrence Reid, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Benjamin’s cards
Every card is computed from May 3, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Benjamin Lawrence Reid, 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
Benjamin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q65739687, 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.
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Quick answers about Benjamin Lawrence Reid’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Benjamin Lawrence Reid?
- Benjamin Lawrence Reid was a Taurus: born May 3, 1918, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1918 birth.
- What time was Benjamin Lawrence Reid 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.
- What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 3, 1918 birth date.
- What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 3, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Benjamin Lawrence Reid's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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