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Benjamin List

Benjamin List (born January 11, 1968, Frankfurt, Germany), aged 58, is a German chemist (1968-). List is best known for asymmetric organocatalysis. List's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Benjamin List’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Benjamin List’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Benjamin in the U.S.?

#11

US rank in 2025

~829,312

Americans share it since 1880

1989

its peak year

In 1968, 3,017 American boys and 22 girls were registered Benjamin — 99th among boys and 2,715th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Benjamin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Benjamin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

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What sets Benjamin apart

Siti Nurhaliza (1979) and Mary J. Blige (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Benjamin, according to the stars

Core essence

Benjamin is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Benjamin is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Benjamin wants to be loved

Benjamin wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Benjamin and watch them fall for you again.

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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Benjamin slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Benjamin's birth date. Working below.

Where Benjamin sits

Six lines

Benjamin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Benjamin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Benjamin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Benjamin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Benjamin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Benjamin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Benjamin

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Benjamin List

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Frankfurt on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Benjamin’s birth-night reference starMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 84.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirfak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 76.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Frankfurt that night

Computed for 50.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Frankfurt was Mirfak, in Perseus, 84.5° up.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Frankfurt sits at 50.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −39.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Frankfurt on any night.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 86% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Benjamin's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · No Air planets · 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.

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Benjamin List in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Benjamin List's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 11, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Benjamin List was born on January 11, 1968, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Benjamin List's birth date, January 11, 1968, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Benjamin’s chart

Benjamin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 20°17′☉20°Moon in Gemini · 2°03′☽2°Mercury in Capricorn · 28°35′☿28°Venus in Sagittarius · 11°27′♀11°Mars in Pisces · 1°36′♂1°Jupiter in Virgo · 5°12′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Aries · 6°37′♄6°Uranus in Virgo · 29°12′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Scorpio · 25°55′♆25°Pluto in Virgo · 22°47′ · retrograde♇℞22°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.1° orb

    Benjamin’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Benjamin’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 3.5° orb

    Benjamin’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSuntrinePluto2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.0° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune5.3° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.6° to 6.9° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Benjamin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 25°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 27°58′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 27°19′ (moves 0.71° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°19′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.6°
  • Eros trine Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.7°

Benjamin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Benjamin’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 2.4°

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Benjamin’s cards

Computed from January 11, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Benjamin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105572 (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 Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Benjamin List at Wikipedia.

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Quick answers about Benjamin List’s chart

How old is Benjamin List?
Benjamin List is 58 years old, born January 11, 1968 in Frankfurt, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Benjamin List?
Benjamin List is a Capricorn: born January 11, 1968, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Benjamin List's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 11, 1968 birth.
What is Benjamin List's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Benjamin List's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Benjamin List's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Benjamin List's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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