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Malik Benson

Malik Benson (born October 17, 2002, Lansing, United States), aged 24, is an American football player. Benson has played for Las Vegas Raiders, Alabama Crimson Tide football and Florida State Seminoles football.

Malik Benson’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Malik Benson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#437

US rank in 2025

~49,866

Americans share it since 1949

1996

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,659 American boys named Malik in 2002: 211th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Malik’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Malik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

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 2002, 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 Malik apart

The schooling ran through Hutchinson Community College and University of Alabama.

Wikipedia files Malik Benson under People from Lansing, Kansas, Players of American football from Kansas and Hutchinson Blue Dragons football players.

Maximilian Beier shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Hutchinson Community College, University of Alabama and Florida State University
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Malik, according to the stars

Core essence

Malik makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Malik 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, Malik is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Malik needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Malik wants to be loved

Malik wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Malik even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Malik creates

How Malik makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Malik creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Malik 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Malik 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Malik fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Malik's birth date. Working below.

Where Malik sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Malik

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Malik

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

PrivateExpressive
Malik

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Malik

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

PracticalVisionary
Malik

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Malik

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Malik Benson

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

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

The sky over Lansing that night

Computed for 39.25°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lansing was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 80.5° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

Lansing sits at 39.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −50.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lansing on any night.

The Moon, 91% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.

How unusual Malik's chart is

Chart pattern score

73 / 100 · Rare

3-planet stellium in Libra · Grand trine · T-square onto Venus

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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Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Malik Benson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 2002, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Water Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Malik Benson was born on October 17, 2002, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Malik Benson's birth date, October 17, 2002, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Malik’s chart

Malik’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 0.3° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.6° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.9° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 4° orbSun in Libra · 24°09′☉24°Moon in Pisces · 14°59′☽14°Mercury in Libra · 7°09′☿7°Venus in Scorpio · 14°38′ · retrograde♀℞14°Mars in Libra · 1°16′♂1°Jupiter in Leo · 14°39′♃14°Saturn in Gemini · 29°03′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Aquarius · 25°02′ · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Aquarius · 8°12′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Sagittarius · 15°38′♇15°

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

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Malik’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Malik’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 6.6° orb

    Malik’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.3° to 1.7° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.4° to 1.4° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn1.9° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus4.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.5° to 6.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune6.3° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 4°21′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 7°57′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°52′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 19°13′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Ceres opposition Mercury 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.8°

Malik’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Malik’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars biquintile Uranus 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.6°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.6°

Born the same day as Malik

Maximilian Beier was born on October 17, 2002 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Lansing sits at 39.2°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Malik’s cards

Computed from October 17, 2002. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Malik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q118570936 (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 The University of Alabama, CC BY 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 Malik Benson.

Quick answers about Malik Benson’s chart

How old is Malik Benson?
Malik Benson is 24 years old, born October 17, 2002 in Lansing, United States.
What zodiac sign is Malik Benson?
Malik Benson is a Libra: born October 17, 2002, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Malik Benson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 2002 birth.
How tall is Malik Benson?
Malik Benson is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Malik Benson's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Malik Benson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Malik Benson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Malik Benson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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