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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, India), aged 64, is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist. Roy is best known for The God of Small Things. Roy's honours include Booker Prize, Time 100 and Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon.

Arundhati Roy’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Arundhati Roy’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

What Arundhati’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

11

Soul Urge · insight

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on A (1) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Arundhati’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Arundhati apart

Katherine Heigl (1978) and Hande Erçel (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Arundhati, according to the stars

Core essence

Arundhati is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Arundhati 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.

How Arundhati wants to be loved

Arundhati wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Arundhati even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Arundhati creates

How Arundhati makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Arundhati creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Arundhati is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Arundhati is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Arundhati has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Arundhati's birth date. Working below.

Where Arundhati sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Arundhati

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Arundhati

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Arundhati

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Arundhati

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

PracticalVisionary
Arundhati

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Arundhati

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shillong on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Arundhati’s birth-night reference starHamalwarm orange · AriesHamal, in Aries. A warm orange star, 86.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Hamal →The warmest lightBetelgeusedeep red · OrionBetelgeuse, in Orion. A deep red star, 29.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Betelgeuse →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Shillong that night

Computed for 25.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Shillong at 9 p.m. that evening: Hamal of Aries, within 3.9° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

Shillong sits at 25.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon, 94% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 60° below the horizon.

How unusual Arundhati'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.

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Arundhati Roy at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Arundhati Roy's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Arundhati Roy's birth date, November 24, 1961, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Arundhati’s chart

Arundhati’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.6° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4.5° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 5.7° orbSun in Sagittarius · 1°45′☉1°Moon in Gemini · 24°42′☽24°Mercury in Scorpio · 19°32′☿19°Venus in Scorpio · 16°20′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 7°28′♂7°Jupiter in Aquarius · 2°58′♃2°Saturn in Capricorn · 25°50′♄25°Uranus in Virgo · 0°29′♅0°Neptune in Scorpio · 11°48′♆11°Pluto in Virgo · 10°03′♇10°

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

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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

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.8° to 1.6° orb

    Arundhati’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableSunsquareUranus0.8° to 1.8° orb

    Arundhati’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Arundhati’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquarePluto2.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter4.2° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars5.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.1° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarssquareUranusorb from 6.6° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercuryconjunctionNeptuneorb from 7.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 1°58′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 17°07′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 15°02′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 27°57′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Sun 0.2°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.3°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Ceres opposition Mercury 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.4°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.5°

Arundhati’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Arundhati’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.

  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.5°

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Arundhati’s cards

Computed from November 24, 1961. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Arundhati’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q212801 (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 Augustus Binu/ facebook, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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 Arundhati Roy.

Quick answers about Arundhati Roy’s chart

How old is Arundhati Roy?
Arundhati Roy is 64 years old, born November 24, 1961 in Shillong, India.
What zodiac sign is Arundhati Roy?
Arundhati Roy is a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1961, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Arundhati Roy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1961 birth.
What is Arundhati Roy's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Arundhati Roy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Arundhati Roy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Arundhati Roy's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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