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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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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.
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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 · 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Benjamin 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Benjamin List in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays 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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Benjamin List was born on January 11, 1968, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Benjamin List's birth date, January 11, 1968, 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 List's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Benjamin List combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Benjamin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Benjamin List, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Taurus or Gemini 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.
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
Benjamin’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
Benjamin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
Benjamin’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.3° orb
Benjamin’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.2° to 5.4° orb
Benjamin’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrinePluto5.0° to 6.6° orb
Benjamin’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune5.3° to 6.1° orb
Benjamin’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.6° to 6.9° orb
Benjamin’s affections grind against their growth.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.4° orb
Benjamin’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Benjamin absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 27°58′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Benjamin is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo 27°19′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Benjamin is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°19′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Benjamin is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Benjamin is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Benjamin is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Benjamin List, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Benjamin’s cards
Every card is computed from January 11, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Benjamin List, 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 Q105572, 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 Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benjamin List at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
- 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 time was Benjamin List 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 is Benjamin List's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 11, 1968 birth date.
- What is Benjamin List's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 11, 1968 birth date.
- 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.
