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Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv, Israel), aged 77, is Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949). Netanyahu has held office as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel and Knesset member. Netanyahu's honours include Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross, Irving Kristol Award and Tzeltner Prize.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood 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

Benjamin ranked 135th among boys and 4,275th among girls in 1949, the year of this birth, with 2,016 American boys and 7 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Benjamin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

Benjamin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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 Benjamin apart

The shelf Benjamin Netanyahu is read from: A Place Among the Nations, Fighting Terrorism and Terrorism: How the West Can Win.

Cheltenham High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1967, at 18.

The family line: born to Zila Netanyahu and Benzion Netanyahu, married Sara Netanyahu and raised 3 children.

The same date carries Shulamit Ran. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
A Place Among the Nations, Fighting Terrorism and Terrorism: How the West Can Win
Educated at
Cheltenham High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MIT Sloan School of Management
Awards
Jabotinsky Medal (1980), honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University (1988) and Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross (2019)
Working from
1967
Citizenship
Israel
Languages
French, English and Hebrew
Wikipedia editions
170

What the chart says

Benjamin, according to the stars

Core essence

Benjamin makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Benjamin is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Benjamin cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Benjamin needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Benjamin builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Benjamin is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Benjamin fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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
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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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Benjamin’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 79.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14.1° 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 Tel Aviv that night

Computed for 32.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Tel Aviv at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.8° above the horizon in Pegasus.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 32.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −57.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tel Aviv on any night.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives in
Jerusalem · Caesarea

Wikidata records Jerusalem and Caesarea as Benjamin Netanyahu's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Benjamin Netanyahu: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Benjamin's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · A leaning bowl

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 Netanyahu in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Benjamin Netanyahu's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Benjamin Netanyahu's birth date, October 21, 1949, 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 12° to 27° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.8° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.9° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.6° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.7° orbSun in Libra · 27°38′☉27°Moon in Libra · 20°18′☽20°Mercury in Libra · 9°43′☿9°Venus in Sagittarius · 12°28′♀12°Mars in Leo · 26°45′♂26°Jupiter in Capricorn · 24°01′♃24°Saturn in Virgo · 15°24′♄15°Uranus in Cancer · 4°58′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Libra · 15°23′♆15°Pluto in Leo · 18°00′♇17°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsextileMars0.7° to 1.1° orb

    Benjamin’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb

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

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.4° to 3.5° orb

    Benjamin’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.1° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto5.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.1° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 7°24′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 24°00′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 3°06′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 27°22′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 20°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.9°

Benjamin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Benjamin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 2.0°

Born the same day as Benjamin

Shulamit Ran was born on October 21, 1949 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Tel Aviv, at 32.1°N, nothing below −57.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Benjamin’s cards

Computed from October 21, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Benjamin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43723 (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 Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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 Benjamin Netanyahu.

Quick answers about Benjamin Netanyahu’s chart

How old is Benjamin Netanyahu?
Benjamin Netanyahu is 77 years old, born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
What zodiac sign is Benjamin Netanyahu?
Benjamin Netanyahu is a Libra: born October 21, 1949, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Benjamin Netanyahu's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1949 birth.
What is Benjamin Netanyahu's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Benjamin Netanyahu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Benjamin Netanyahu's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Benjamin Netanyahu's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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