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Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970, Staten Island, United States), aged 56, is an American actor and playwright. Akhtar is best known for Homeland Elegies. Akhtar's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Nestroy Theatre Prize.

Ayad Akhtar’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Ayad Akhtar’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

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

How common is the name Ayad in the U.S.?

#8337

US rank in 2025

~159

Americans share it since 2000

2016

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Ayad falls under that line for 1970. Its peak came in 2016, and 159 Americans have carried it since 2000.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ayad’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

Ayad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Ayad apart

Bill Gates (1955) and Julia Roberts (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ayad, according to the stars

Core essence

Ayad does not do surface. The core of Ayad 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 Ayad is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Ayad cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Ayad needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Ayad wants to be loved

Ayad 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 Ayad even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Ayad creates

How Ayad makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ayad 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: Ayad is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ayad 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 Ayad 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. Ayad fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Ayad's birth date. Working below.

Where Ayad sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ayad

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ayad

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ayad

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ayad

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ayad

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ayad

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

Dedicate a star to Ayad Akhtar

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

Ayad’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 76.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Staten Island that night

Computed for 40.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Staten Island at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.3° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.

Staten Island sits at 40.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.

How unusual Ayad's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Fire planets · Venus retrograde

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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Ayad Akhtar at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Ayad Akhtar's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Ayad Akhtar was born on October 28, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Ayad Akhtar's birth date, October 28, 1970, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Ayad’s chart

Ayad’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.7° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.7° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.5° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 5.8° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 6.1° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 6.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 4°52′☉4°Moon in Libra · 16°55′☽16°Mercury in Scorpio · 5°42′☿5°Venus in Scorpio · 23°55′ · retrograde♀℞23°Mars in Libra · 5°14′♂5°Jupiter in Scorpio · 13°56′♃13°Saturn in Taurus · 20°16′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Libra · 10°47′♅10°Neptune in Scorpio · 29°41′♆29°Pluto in Virgo · 28°35′♇28°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb

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

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.5° to 3.8° orb

    Ayad’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenussextilePluto4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.3° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn6.2° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.4° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 5.9° to 17.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercuryconjunctionJupiterorb from 7.5° to 8.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 29°44′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 20°24′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 12°52′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 1.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.1°

Ayad’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ayad’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, 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.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 1.9°

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Ayad’s cards

Computed from October 28, 1970. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ayad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4830797 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ayad Akhtar.

Quick answers about Ayad Akhtar’s chart

How old is Ayad Akhtar?
Ayad Akhtar is 56 years old, born October 28, 1970 in Staten Island, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ayad Akhtar?
Ayad Akhtar is a Scorpio: born October 28, 1970, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Ayad Akhtar's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1970 birth.
What is Ayad Akhtar's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Ayad Akhtar's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ayad Akhtar's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ayad Akhtar's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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