Ben Affleck is an American actor and filmmaker, born in Berkeley, California. He began in the PBS series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984), then appeared in Dazed and Confused (1993) and Chasing Amy (1997). He and Matt Damon took the screenplay Oscar for Good Will Hunting at the 1998 ceremony. Armageddon (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001) followed, and Hollywoodland (2006) brought him the Volpi Cup. He directed Gone Baby Gone (2007), The Town (2010) and Argo, which won the best picture Oscar at the 2013 ceremony, with Affleck among its producers. He starred in Gone Girl (2014), played Batman from 2016, and directed and acted in Air (2023).
A birth certificate in Rodden's file
Astro-Databank's Source Notes read "B.C. in hand, LMR." The initials are those of Lois M. Rodden, who collected the entry; the source is a birth certificate in hand, which earns the top rating, AA.
No other time is on record, so the chart rests on 2:53 a.m. alone.
| Point | Sign at birth | In that sign | Before and after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising sign | ♋︎ Cancer | 2:15 a.m. to 4:35 a.m. | Gemini before, Leo after |
| Midheaven | ♓︎ Pisces | 1:43 a.m. to 3:33 a.m. | Aquarius before, Aries after |
| Moon | ♏︎ Scorpio | all day | n/a |
Rising sign, midheaven and Moon calculated by us, Berkeley, California, Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).
Venus just ahead of the Cancer ascendant
Venus at 7°28′ of Cancer lies 1°06′ before the ascendant at 8°34′ Cancer. It has not yet risen at birth, so Placidus counts it in the 12th house and Whole Sign in the 1st, with the rest of Cancer.
Readers weigh a planet this near the horizon early, and Venus in Cancer is read as warmth shown through care for the familiar, here felt before it is seen.
Our pages: Venus in Cancer · Cancer rising · 12th house · 1st house.
The Moon, ruler of Cancer, 9.6 hours into Scorpio
Cancer held the Berkeley horizon from 2:15 a.m. to 4:35 a.m., and he was born 38 minutes after it rose. Its ruler is the Moon, which entered Scorpio at 5:20 p.m. on August 14 and stands at 4°46′, in the 5th house either way.
The Moon trines Venus, 2°41′ off, water to water, which suggests mood and warmth moving easily together. The 5th house covers performance and making things, so a Scorpio Moon there points to feeling that goes into the work.
Our pages: Moon in Scorpio · moon sign calculator · 5th house · Sun, Moon and rising together.
Leo Sun and retrograde Mercury, filed by two house systems
The Sun at 22°39′ of Leo and retrograde Mercury at 10°50′ share the sign of the stage, which the tradition reads as a bright, central voice.
Mercury is in the 2nd house of skills either way. The Sun is there under Whole Sign but moves to the 3rd, the house of talk and learning, under Placidus. A backward-moving Mercury is taken to mean ideas revised before they are spoken.
Our pages: Leo · Mercury in Leo · 2nd house · 3rd house.
Jupiter trines Mars, 1°36′ from exact
Jupiter at 28°39′ of Sagittarius, retrograde and nearly out of its sign, trines Mars at 0°14′ of Virgo, 1°36′ off, the tightest aspect here. With Mars just inside Virgo, the fire-earth trine suggests expansion paired with method.
Pluto at 0°27′, barely into Libra, squares Jupiter, 1°49′ off, which suggests pressure to rework whatever Jupiter would enlarge. Mars is in the 3rd house and Pluto in the 4th in both systems.
Our pages: Jupiter in Sagittarius · Mars in Virgo · Pluto in Libra · 6th house.
A Pisces midheaven, and Neptune in Sagittarius
The midheaven is 19°00′ Pisces, held by Pisces from 1:43 a.m. to 3:33 a.m. Pisces overhead suggests a public life drawn to imagination and image-making.
Neptune, the modern ruler of Pisces, stands at 2°29′ of Sagittarius, where Placidus files it in the 5th house and the Whole Sign system in the sixth. Jupiter, the older ruler, is in Sagittarius too.
Our pages: Midheaven in Pisces · Neptune in Sagittarius · 10th house · rising sign calculator.
All major aspects between the planets in Ben Affleck's chart
- Mars trine Jupiter orb 1°36′
- Jupiter square Pluto orb 1°49′
- Neptune sextile Pluto orb 2°02′
- Mars square Neptune orb 2°15′
- Moon trine Venus orb 2°41′
- Saturn trine Uranus orb 3°07′
- Sun sextile Saturn orb 4°05′
- Moon sextile Mars orb 4°32′
- Mercury sextile Uranus orb 4°37′
- Sun trine Jupiter orb 5°59′
- Moon square Mercury orb 6°04′
- Moon sextile Jupiter orb 6°08′
- Venus square Pluto orb 7°00′
- Sun sextile Uranus orb 7°12′
- Sun conjunction Mars orb 7°35′
- Venus square Uranus orb 8°00′
- Sun square Neptune orb 9°50′
Orbs: 8° for conjunction, opposition, square and trine, 6° for sextile, 2° more when the Sun or Moon is involved; Node, Lilith, Ascendant and Midheaven not counted. Same rules as our birth chart calculator.
Questions about Ben Affleck's chart
What rises on Ben Affleck's eastern horizon?
Cancer, at 8°34′ Cancer, from 2:15 a.m. to 4:35 a.m. that morning.
What is his Sun sign?
Leo, at 22°39′, with Mercury also in Leo.
Where is his Moon?
In Scorpio, at 4°46′, which it entered at 5:20 p.m. on August 14.
What time was Ben Affleck born?
At 2:53 a.m. on August 15, 1972, in Berkeley, California, per a birth certificate noted by Lois Rodden.
Where is Venus in his chart?
At 7°28′ of Cancer, 1°06′ before the ascendant.
Which aspect is tightest in his chart?
Jupiter trine Mars, 1°36′ from exact.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Astro-Databank (Astrodienst): published birth charts we test the calculation against
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
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Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. This page explains what the tradition says about the placements in a published chart; it makes no claims about Ben Affleck's character, health or private life. Birth data: Astro-Databank (Astrodienst), checked October 20, 2026. Positions: our calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris; it matches the Sun, Moon and ascendant degrees Astro-Databank publishes for this chart to within one arc minute.