Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga (born October 23, 1974, Chennai, India), aged 52, is an Indian journalist and author. Adiga is best known for The White Tiger. Adiga's honours include Booker Prize.
Aravind Adiga’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Aravind
Aravind Adiga’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Aravind in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~165
Americans share it since 1994
2003
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Aravind falls under that line for 1974. Its peak came in 2003, and 165 Americans have carried it since 1994.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Aravind’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
22
Soul Urge · legacy
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on A (1) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Aravind’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The record
What sets Aravind apart
Pelé (1940) and Paul Kagame (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Aravind, according to the stars
Core essence
Aravind makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Aravind 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 Aravind wants to be loved
Aravind 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. Aravind gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Aravind creates
How Aravind 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. Aravind 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: Aravind is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Aravind 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: 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. Aravind fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Aravind's birth date. Working below.
Where Aravind sits
Six lines
Aravind’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 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 Aravind Adiga
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chennai 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 Chennai that night
Computed for 13.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chennai at 9 p.m. that evening: Markab of Pegasus, within 2.4° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 79 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 13.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 56% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
How unusual Aravind's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Libra · No Earth planets · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Aravind Adiga's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 23, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Aravind Adiga was born on October 23, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Aravind Adiga's birth date, October 23, 1974, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Aravind’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Aravind Adiga's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Aravind Adiga combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Aravind’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Aravind’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Aravind’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.5° to 1.1° orb
Aravind’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.8° to 1.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.3° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.8° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars2.7° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.8° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water3 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.
Aravind’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 21°52′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 1°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°59′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 2°33′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Uranus 0.2°
- Eros trine Mars 1.4°
- Eros trine Sun 1.5°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.7°
- Eros trine Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.9°
Aravind’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Aravind’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.6°
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Fellow Libra suns
- T. J. WattAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Jamel DeanAmerican football cornerback
- Michael Pittman Jr.American football wide receiver
Born in Tiger years
- Quentin LakeAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Ronnie RiversAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Sam OkuayinonuAmerican football player (born 1998)
Also born on October 23
- Pelé1940
- Paul Kagame1957
- Ryan Reynolds1976
- Felix Bloch1905
- Margaret Qualley1994
- Minnie1997
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Karl MaldenAmerican actor
- Nicoletta BraschiItalian actress and producer
- Gabriel ByrneIrish actor
Other Libra Tiger charts
- Matthew MacfadyenEnglish actor
- Paul Walter HauserAmerican actor
- Dwight D. Eisenhowerpresident of the United States from 1953 to 1961
- Anne EnrightIrish writer (born 1962)
Other Radiant Visionarys
- John Metchie IIITaiwanese-Canadian gridiron football player (born 2000)
- Chigozie AnusiemAmerican football player
- Larrell MurchisonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Garret WallowAmerican football linebacker
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician, Nobel Prize recipient
- Richard HendersonNobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945)
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Aravind’s cards
Computed from October 23, 1974. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
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
Aravind’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296299 (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.
The same Aravind Adiga at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Aravind Adiga.
Quick answers about Aravind Adiga’s chart
- How old is Aravind Adiga?
- Aravind Adiga is 52 years old, born October 23, 1974 in Chennai, India.
- What zodiac sign is Aravind Adiga?
- Aravind Adiga is a Libra: born October 23, 1974, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Aravind Adiga's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 23, 1974 birth.
- What is Aravind Adiga's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Aravind Adiga's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Aravind Adiga's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Aravind Adiga's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
