Akshay Venkatesh
Akshay Venkatesh (born November 21, 1981, Delhi, India), aged 44, is an Australian number theorist. Venkatesh's honours include Fields medal, SASTRA Ramanujan Prize and Salem Prize.
Akshay Venkatesh’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Akshay
Akshay Venkatesh’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Akshay in the U.S.?
#6158
US rank in 2025
~1,808
Americans share it since 1981
2008
its peak year
In 1981, 8 American boys were registered Akshay — 4,518th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Akshay’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Akshay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, 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 Akshay apart
The Salem Prize came in 2007, when Akshay Venkatesh was 26.
The schooling ran through Scotch College, Perth and University of Western Australia.
The family line: born to Svetha Venkatesh.
On Wikipedia the categories read Indian emigrants to Australia, Scientists from Delhi and Australian mathematicians.
Björk (1965) and Goldie Hawn (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Scotch College, Perth, University of Western Australia and Princeton University
- Awards
- Fields medal (2018), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2008) and Ostrowski Prize (2017)
- Citizenship
- Australia and India
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Akshay, according to the stars
Core essence
Akshay does not do surface. The core of Akshay is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Akshay is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Akshay wants to be loved
Akshay wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Akshay you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Akshay creates
How Akshay makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Akshay creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Akshay is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Akshay is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Akshay channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Akshay's birth date. Working below.
Where Akshay sits
Six lines
Akshay’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Akshay Venkatesh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Delhi 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 Delhi that night
Computed for 28.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Delhi was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 82.6° up.
Of the 96 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Delhi sits at 28.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Acrux cannot be seen from Delhi at all: they sit past the −61.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 21% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual Akshay's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Akshay Venkatesh's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 21, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Akshay Venkatesh was born on November 21, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Akshay Venkatesh's birth date, November 21, 1981, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Akshay’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Akshay Venkatesh's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Akshay Venkatesh combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Akshay’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 1.0° orb
Akshay’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.0° to 1.9° orb
Akshay’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenustrineMars1.8° to 2.2° orb
Akshay’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.9° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.4° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 6.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Akshay’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 19°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 22°35′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 18°38′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Eros trine Mars 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
Akshay’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Akshay’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on November 21
- Björk1965
- Goldie Hawn1945
- Davido1992
- Ronny Chieng1985
- Dick Durbin1944
- Cameran Wimberly1983
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- Ernest RutherfordNew Zealand physicist
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- Jackie ChanHong Kong actor and martial artist
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Other Tidal Guardians
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Akshay’s cards
Computed from November 21, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Akshay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176588 (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 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Akshay Venkatesh at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Akshay Venkatesh.
Quick answers about Akshay Venkatesh’s chart
- How old is Akshay Venkatesh?
- Akshay Venkatesh is 44 years old, born November 21, 1981 in Delhi, India.
- What zodiac sign is Akshay Venkatesh?
- Akshay Venkatesh is a Scorpio: born November 21, 1981, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Akshay Venkatesh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 21, 1981 birth.
- What is Akshay Venkatesh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Akshay Venkatesh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Akshay Venkatesh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Akshay Venkatesh's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
