Ben Spies
1984-07-11 at 14:55:00 · Memphis, Tennessee
Ben Spies's chart reveals a deeply intuitive and nurturing soul... someone who feels everything, protects what they love, and finds identity through emotional connection. With a Cancer Sun in the 9th house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of philosophy and expansion... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Capricorn Moon speaks to what Ben needs emotionally... structure, achievement, and the knowledge that effort leads to results. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets Ben through Scorpio rising... intense, mysterious, and deeply perceptive... someone whose presence is felt before they speak. This is the lens through which all of their chart's energy is filtered, the first thing people sense before they know the full story.
Their drive runs deep and is not easily deterred... they pursue goals with quiet, transformative intensity. With 5 retrograde planets in their natal chart, much of Ben's energy is directed inward... a rich inner world that fuels their outer expression.
Planetary Positions
Rising: Scorpio · Midheaven: Leo♋ Cancer
19° · House 9
♑ Capricorn
4° · House 2
♌ Leo
8° · House 9
♋ Cancer
26° · House 9
♏ Scorpio
14° · House 1
♑ Capricorn
6° · House 2℞
♏ Scorpio
9° · House 12℞
♐ Sagittarius
10° · House 2℞
♐ Sagittarius
29° · House 2℞
♎ Libra
29° · House 12
♊ Gemini
5° · House 7℞
♊ Gemini
6° · House 7
♓ Pisces
27° · House 5
Chart Interpretations
Sun in Cancer in House 9
Your Sun in Cancer in the ninth house links your core identity to the search for meaning through an emotionally and culturally rich lens ... a philosophical and spiritual orientation that is personal rather than abstract, rooted in lived experience and the traditions that shaped you rather than in purely intellectual investigation. Cancer is cardinal water ruled by the Moon, and in the 9th house's domain of belief, higher education, and the broadening of worldview those qualities produce someone who seeks wisdom that feels personally resonant, spiritually alive, and connected to the emotional and cultural inheritance of their particular origins. Travel that deepens your understanding of human emotional experience moves you profoundly; learning that has no personal emotional charge fails to genuinely stay. The 9th house is Cadent, transforming experience into worldview, and with Cancer here your philosophy of life is genuinely formed by and inseparable from your emotional history. To work with this energy consciously, pursue higher learning and philosophical inquiry in environments that feel emotionally nourishing ... your best insights arise from the lived, felt encounter with ideas in real-world context rather than from purely abstract study. The honest challenge is seeking philosophical comfort rather than philosophical challenge: Cancer in the 9th can gravitate toward traditions that affirm what it already loves rather than those that genuinely expand and occasionally disrupt its emotional worldview.
Moon in Capricorn in House 2
Your Moon in Capricorn in the second house brings the Moon's detriment in Capricorn into direct and honest relationship with the domain of personal resources, self-worth, and material security ... and what this creates is one of the most seriously, patiently, and strategically capable financial temperaments in the chart, alongside a deep psychological entanglement between financial standing and inner felt safety that deserves careful and compassionate understanding. Capricorn is cardinal earth ruled by Saturn, and in the 2nd house those qualities mean your emotional relationship with money is characterized by Saturnine discipline, conservative intelligence, and the long-term strategic perspective that builds substantial material security over decades of sustained effort. The Moon's detriment here means that the Moon's natural emotional openness and ease of receiving are genuinely challenged: there may be a deep and sometimes irrational fear of material scarcity that drives an intensity of financial accumulation that goes beyond what the actual circumstances require, and that confuses the security of sufficient resources with an inner sense of okayness that no amount of accumulation can fully supply. Your instincts about long-term financial planning, real estate, and conservative investment are genuinely excellent and worth trusting. To work with this energy consciously, allow yourself to actually enjoy the security you have built rather than perpetually measuring it against a higher standard that moves just ahead of wherever you are ... the pleasure of having built something solid is a genuine emotional right that Capricorn in the 2nd sometimes denies itself by always looking ahead to what remains to be built. The honest growth challenge is the conflation of self-worth with financial achievement, and the growth is developing an interior sense of value that recognizes your essential worth is not contingent on what your balance sheet reflects in any given moment.
Mercury in Leo in House 9
Your Mercury in Leo in the ninth house gives you the intellectual temperament of a natural teacher, philosopher, and public communicator of ideas ... someone whose genuine passion for the big questions of meaning, justice, and human possibility comes through in everything you say and write about them. Mercury governs thinking and communication; Leo is fixed fire ruled by the Sun, and in the ninth house of higher learning, philosophy, travel, and the ongoing project of building a meaningful worldview, that quality means your philosophical thinking is animated by personal conviction and the genuine desire to inspire as well as to inform. You communicate philosophical and spiritual ideas with a warmth and emotional resonance that makes them personally urgent rather than merely abstractly correct. To work with this energy consciously, develop genuine depth of knowledge alongside your natural passion for big ideas ... your communicative power in this domain is at its peak when the inspiration is backed by real intellectual substance. The growth edge is that Leo in the ninth house can make philosophical positions feel like personal declarations of identity rather than genuinely open questions; the growth work is allowing your most important beliefs to be challenged without experiencing that challenge as a personal attack, and discovering that the beliefs that survive genuine scrutiny are more powerful than those held simply through conviction.
Venus in Cancer in House 9
Your Venus in Cancer in the ninth house brings emotional depth and nurturing instincts to your exploration of philosophy, higher education, travel, and meaning-making. You are drawn to belief systems that honor emotion, family, and the sacred dimensions of ordinary domestic life. Travel appeals most when it involves immersion in local cultures, home-cooked meals, and forming genuine emotional connections with people in distant places. Higher education is most fulfilling when it resonates emotionally and connects to your personal story. You may be drawn to studying history, psychology, or cultural traditions that illuminate the human emotional experience across time. The challenge is provincialism ... becoming so attached to your own cultural and emotional framework that different perspectives feel threatening. Consciously expose yourself to unfamiliar worldviews with the same openness and curiosity you bring to caring for others, and your understanding will deepen beautifully.
Mars in Scorpio in House 1
Your Mars in Scorpio in the first house places the planet of drive in one of its co-ruling signs ... a placement of exceptional depth, intensity, and strategic power. You project a magnetic, penetrating presence that others feel immediately, even when you say very little. Your drive is quiet but relentless; you pursue your goals with complete focus and do not back down when obstacles arise. You have a natural instinct for power dynamics and an ability to see through surface appearances to what is really going on. The key insight: your intensity is a gift ... direct it with intention rather than letting it burn indiscriminately, and you become a genuinely transformative force in every arena you enter.
Jupiter in Capricorn in House 2
℞Your Jupiter in Capricorn in the second house brings disciplined, structured energy to your finances, possessions, and sense of self-worth. With Jupiter in its fall here, abundance does not come easily or quickly, but what you build financially is remarkably solid and enduring. You are a careful, strategic manager of resources who understands the value of compound growth, long-term investment, and living within your means. Self-worth is connected to tangible achievement and financial competence rather than abstract confidence. You may earn through business, management, finance, or any field that rewards disciplined, long-term effort. The challenge is scarcity thinking ... believing that resources are always limited and that generosity is a luxury you cannot afford. Practice strategic generosity alongside your natural prudence, and you will discover that your careful approach to money generates more than enough abundance to share.
Saturn in Scorpio in House 12
℞Your Saturn in Scorpio in the twelfth house places its most intense transformative demands in the realm that is most hidden and most resistant to conscious control. The twelfth house is the domain of the unconscious, of karma, of what we carry without knowing we carry it ... and Saturn in Scorpio here asks that you do sustained, courageous work on the most deeply buried psychological material. Dreams may be particularly vivid or disturbing as the psyche pushes material toward consciousness. The path forward is not suppression but skilled, patient engagement with the depths ... therapy, shadow work, contemplative practice. What you unearth and integrate here becomes the source of a profound wisdom that you can eventually offer the world.
Uranus in Sagittarius in House 2
℞Your Uranus in Sagittarius in the second house brings expansive, adventurous energy and unexpected change to your finances, possessions, and sense of self-worth. Sagittarius is mutable fire, so your approach to money is optimistic, risk-tolerant, and oriented toward growth, while Uranus ensures your financial landscape includes dramatic ups and downs. As a generational placement, your cohort transforms global economics, international trade, and how different cultures define wealth, and in your second house, these shifts directly affect your personal resources. You may earn through teaching, publishing, travel, international business, or philosophical and spiritual pursuits. Your relationship with money is philosophical as much as practical ... you see resources as a means to experience and explore, not just accumulate. The challenge is that Sagittarian optimism combined with Uranian risk-taking can lead to financial overextension. When you develop a financial strategy that supports your adventurous nature while maintaining a realistic safety net, your relationship with money becomes an authentic expression of your values without the anxiety of perpetual boom-and-bust cycles.
Neptune in Sagittarius in House 2
℞Your Neptune in Sagittarius in the second house blends the planet of idealism and dissolution with Sagittarius' expansive, freedom-loving energy, directing it into the house of money, possessions, and personal values. Neptune in Sagittarius is generational, but the second house makes financial and self-worth themes personally significant. You may be drawn to earn through work in education, publishing, travel, philosophy, or any field where your visionary expansiveness is a genuine asset. Your values are philosophical and freedom-oriented ... you are not easily enslaved by material possessions, which is a genuine strength. The risk is an overly optimistic approach to finances that underestimates practical needs. Your practical insight is to combine your philosophical generosity with enough practical planning to ensure that your freedom is genuinely sustainable.
Pluto in Libra in House 12
Your Pluto in Libra in the twelfth house tucks transformative relational power into the most hidden sector of your chart. Libra's cardinal air energy in this realm of the unconscious, spirituality, and solitude means your deepest patterns around relationships, fairness, and the balance of power operate largely below conscious awareness. You may carry hidden resentments about past relationship injustices, unconscious patterns of people-pleasing that sacrifice your own needs, or buried anger about situations where harmony was maintained at the cost of truth. Dreams and solitary reflection may reveal the relational dynamics you suppress in waking life. Spiritual practices involving partnership, beauty, or the restoration of balance can be profoundly healing. The challenge is bringing your hidden relational patterns into awareness rather than projecting them onto others or numbing yourself through surface-level social pleasantries. When you do this deep inner work, you develop a quiet wisdom about human connection that makes you an extraordinarily perceptive and compassionate partner, friend, and counselor.
North Node in Gemini in House 7
℞Your North Node in Gemini in the seventh house points toward your growth through partnerships built on rich intellectual exchange, genuine curiosity about the other person, and open, flexible communication. You are here to learn that the most fulfilling close relationships are also great conversations ... relationships where both people remain curious, adaptable, and willing to keep learning from each other. The seventh house focuses this energy on marriage, partnerships, and contracts. Choose partners who stimulate your mind, prioritize honest and frequent communication within your relationships, and resist the pull toward heavy, fated bonds at the expense of lightness and mental connection. A good relationship is also a good dialogue.
Chiron in Gemini in House 7
Chiron in Gemini in the seventh house places the Wounded Healer in the domain of committed partnerships and significant one-on-one relating ... filtered through mutable air's need for intellectual stimulation and Mercury's instinct for connection through dialogue and exchange. The wound here lives in the experience of being understood ... or not ... by the person closest to you. Gemini needs conversation to feel intimate: the seventh house requires genuine reciprocity and the deep willingness to encounter another person's reality, and Chiron here means the very thing you need most in partnership (to be genuinely heard and intellectually engaged) is also the thing most likely to be missing or to wound you when it fails. Mutable air in the seventh house can produce a pattern of attracting partnerships that begin with thrilling intellectual chemistry and then reveal, over time, a fundamental gap in genuine understanding ... the stimulation was real, but the depth of mutual recognition was not. Mercury rules Gemini, and in the seventh house its energy means communication is not merely a feature of your relationships but their essential medium: how you speak to each other, whether you can say the difficult things, whether conversation deepens over time or stays in its comfortable grooves, these are make-or-break dimensions of partnership for you. Your gift is an unusually clear understanding of what genuine intellectual intimacy in partnership requires ... not just compatible intelligence but the willingness to be changed by what the other person says. To work with this energy consciously, choose partners not just for stimulating conversation but for the quality of their listening ... the Gemini wound in the seventh house heals most fully with a partner who can receive you as completely as you articulate yourself. The growth edge is that mutable air can mistake novelty for depth and move on when the conversation becomes familiar, and the growth is discovering that the most interesting conversation you'll ever have with a partner is the one that has been going on for twenty years.
Ascendant (Rising) in Scorpio
With Scorpio rising, you project intensity and depth before you say a word. People sense that there is more going on beneath the surface than you reveal. Your presence is magnetic and a little mysterious... you observe everything and give away very little until you decide someone has earned your trust.
Descendant in Taurus
With your Descendant in Taurus, you're drawn to partners who are stable, sensual, and grounded. You seek relationships that provide security and consistency... someone who makes the world feel solid.
Midheaven in Leo
With your Midheaven in Leo, your career path demands creative self-expression and recognition. You thrive when your work is visible and your unique contribution is acknowledged. Your public reputation is built on confidence, generosity, and the ability to inspire others.
Imum Coeli in Aquarius
With your IC in Aquarius, your roots are shaped by unconventionality and intellectual independence. Your home life may have felt different from the norm. You recharge through freedom, technology, and spaces where you can think without rules.
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