Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born December 20, 1948, Zanzibar City, Tanzania), aged 77, is a Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948). Gurnah is best known for Paradise, Memory of Departure and Dottie. Gurnah's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, honorary doctorate and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
Abdulrazak’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
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What the chart says
Abdulrazak, according to the stars
Core essence
Abdulrazak is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Abdulrazak is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Abdulrazak needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Abdulrazak needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Abdulrazak creates
How Abdulrazak makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Abdulrazak creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Abdulrazak is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Abdulrazak 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Abdulrazak does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Abdulrazak's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Abdulrazak Gurnah's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 20, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born on December 20, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Abdulrazak Gurnah's birth date, December 20, 1948, 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 Abdulrazak’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Abdulrazak Gurnah's date-only chart is Sun opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Abdulrazak Gurnah combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Abdulrazak’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Abdulrazak Gurnah, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Leo 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.
stableSunoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Abdulrazak’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Abdulrazak’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.4° to 1.6° orb
Abdulrazak’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.7° to 4.3° orb
Abdulrazak’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.7° to 3.4° orb
Abdulrazak’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.3° to 4.9° orb
Abdulrazak’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 4.5° orb
Abdulrazak’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.3° to 5.7° orb
Abdulrazak’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.5° to 6.7° orb
Abdulrazak’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.5° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Abdulrazak’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 2°46′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Abdulrazak building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 24°42′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Abdulrazak is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosScorpio 25°34′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Abdulrazak is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 15°05′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Abdulrazak is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Abdulrazak is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.1°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.9°
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°).
Abdulrazak’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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Abdulrazak is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Abdulrazak’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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Abdulrazak Gurnah, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Abdulrazak’s cards
Every card is computed from December 20, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Abdulrazak Gurnah, 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
Abdulrazak’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317877, 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 Adrian Tync, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Abdulrazak Gurnah at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Abdulrazak Gurnah’s chart
- How old is Abdulrazak Gurnah?
- Abdulrazak Gurnah is 77 years old, born December 20, 1948 in Zanzibar City, Tanzania.
- What zodiac sign is Abdulrazak Gurnah?
- Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Sagittarius: born December 20, 1948, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
- What is Abdulrazak Gurnah's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 20, 1948 birth.
- What time was Abdulrazak Gurnah 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 Abdulrazak Gurnah's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 20, 1948 birth date.
- What is Abdulrazak Gurnah's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 20, 1948 birth date.
- Where is Abdulrazak Gurnah's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Abdulrazak Gurnah's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
