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Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan (born October 11, 1942, Prayagraj, India), aged 84, is an Indian actor. Notable films include The Great Gatsby, Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sadness... and Sholay. Bachchan's honours include Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award and Padma Vibhushan.

Amitabh Bachchan’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Amitabh Bachchan’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

What Amitabh’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on A (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Amitabh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 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 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Amitabh apart

The Padma Shri in arts came in 1984, when Amitabh Bachchan was 42.

Amitabh Bachchan was taught at Boys' High School & College and Sherwood College.

Amitabh Bachchan was 27 when the work began in 1969.

On the family side, Amitabh Bachchan was born to Teji Bachchan and Harivansh Rai Bachchan, married Jaya Bachchan and raised one child.

Wikipedia files Amitabh Bachchan under Hindi-language playback singers, Indian amateur radio people and India MPs 1984 to 1989.

Rei Kawakubo 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
Boys' High School & College, Sherwood College and Kirori Mal College
Instruments
voice
Awards
Padma Vibhushan (2015), Padma Bhushan (2001) and Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2019)
Working from
1969
Citizenship
India
Languages
English and Hindi
Wikipedia editions
126

What the chart says

Amitabh, according to the stars

Core essence

Amitabh makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Amitabh 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.

How Amitabh wants to be loved

Amitabh wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Amitabh gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Amitabh creates

How Amitabh makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Amitabh creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Amitabh 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 1 is the pioneer. Amitabh is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Amitabh leads without needing to do it alone.

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. Amitabh fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Amitabh's birth date. Working below.

Where Amitabh sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Amitabh

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Amitabh

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

PrivateExpressive
Amitabh

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Amitabh

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Amitabh

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Amitabh

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 Amitabh Bachchan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Prayagraj 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 Prayagraj that night

Computed for 25.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Prayagraj at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

Prayagraj sits at 25.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Prayagraj, India
Lives in
Mumbai

Wikidata records Mumbai as Amitabh Bachchan's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Amitabh Bachchan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Amitabh's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No Earth planets

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

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Amitabh Bachchan's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Amitabh Bachchan's birth date, October 11, 1942, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Amitabh’s chart

Amitabh’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 8° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.7° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.8° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Libra · 17°16′☉17°Moon in Scorpio · 1°01′☽1°Mercury in Libra · 16°55′ · retrograde☿℞16°Venus in Libra · 8°02′♀8°Mars in Libra · 15°33′♂15°Jupiter in Cancer · 23°35′♃23°Saturn in Gemini · 12°17′ · retrograde♄℞12°Uranus in Gemini · 4°12′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Libra · 0°16′♆0°Pluto in Leo · 7°05′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Amitabh’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.3° to 1.6° orb

    Amitabh’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.4° to 2.3° orb

    Amitabh’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars1.6° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn2.9° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.2° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.9° to 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air7 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 25°56′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 22°31′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 7°12′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 6°35′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Pluto 0.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.5°
  • Eros trine Venus 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°

Amitabh’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Amitabh’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

Born the same day as Amitabh

Rei Kawakubo was born on October 11, 1942 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 87 catalog stars stood above Prayagraj, at 25.4°N that night, with Aljanah nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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Amitabh’s cards

Computed from October 11, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Amitabh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9570 (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 File:Amitabh Bacchan and Shrinivas Kulkarni.jpg: Shrinivaskulkarni1388 derivative work: Junior Jumper, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Amitabh Bachchan.

Quick answers about Amitabh Bachchan’s chart

How old is Amitabh Bachchan?
Amitabh Bachchan is 84 years old, born October 11, 1942 in Prayagraj, India.
What zodiac sign is Amitabh Bachchan?
Amitabh Bachchan is a Libra: born October 11, 1942, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Amitabh Bachchan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1942 birth.
How tall is Amitabh Bachchan?
Amitabh Bachchan is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Amitabh Bachchan's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Amitabh Bachchan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Amitabh Bachchan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Amitabh Bachchan's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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