Babak Karimi
Babak Karimi (born November 11, 1960, Prague, Czech Republic), aged 65, is an Iranian film editor and actor.
Babak Karimi’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Babak
Babak Karimi’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Babak in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~287
Americans share it since 1968
1987
its peak year
US records hold Babak from 1968 onward, though not for 1960 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1987 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Babak’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on B (2) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Babak’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
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 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 1960, 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 Babak apart
The family line: born to Nosrat Karimi.
Wikipedia's editors put Babak Karimi under Iranian cinematographers, People from Prague and Silver Bear for Best Actor winners.
The same date carries Stanley Tucci. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Languages
- Persian
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Babak, according to the stars
Core essence
Babak does not do surface. The core of Babak 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 Babak is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Babak needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Babak needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Babak wants to be loved
Babak wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Babak and watch them fall for you again.
How Babak creates
How Babak makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Babak 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: Babak is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Babak is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Babak does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Babak's birth date. Working below.
Where Babak sits
Six lines
Babak’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 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 Babak Karimi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Prague 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 Prague that night
Computed for 50.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Prague at 9 p.m. that evening: Schedar of Cassiopeia, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.
Prague sits at 50.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 48% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Babak's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No Air 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 →Babak Karimi at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Babak Karimi's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 11, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Babak Karimi was born on November 11, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Babak Karimi's birth date, November 11, 1960, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Babak’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Babak Karimi's date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Babak Karimi combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Babak’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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
stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Babak’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.7° orb
Babak’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableSuntrineMars0.5° to 1.4° orb
Babak’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.6° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 1.9° to 13.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Babak’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°48′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 23°18′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 23°46′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros trine Venus 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.8°
Babak’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Babak’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
Born the same day as Babak
Stanley Tucci was born on November 11, 1960 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: from Prague, at 50.1°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Babak
Other actors
- Nicoletta Braschi1960
- John Corbett1961
- Valerie Bertinelli1960
- Robert Carlyle1961
- Michael Lohan1960
- Christopher Meloni1961
Born in Czech Republic
- Sigmund FreudAustrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Franz KafkaBohemian writer from Prague
- Jaroslav HeyrovskýCzech chemist
- Gerty CoriAustro-Hungarian-American biochemist
- Carl Ferdinand CoriCzech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
- Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate
More charts like Babak’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Harrison SalisburyAmerican journalist
- Dominick ArgentoAmerican composer
- Ann Telnaescartoonist
Born in Rat years
- James P. AllisonAmerican immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
- Barry C. BarishAmerican physicist
- Narges MohammadiIranian human rights activist (born 1972)
Also born on November 11
- Leonardo DiCaprio1974
- Demi Moore1962
- Friedrich Merz1955
- Reid Wiseman1975
- Christa B. Allen1991
- Calista Flockhart1964
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Stanley TucciAmerican actor and author (born 1960)
- Maggie SmithEnglish actress
- Rick Salomonfilm producer, online gambling entrepreneur
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- C. K. WilliamsAmerican poet and critic
- Mary JordanAmerican journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Aaron CoplandAmerican composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
- C. L. SulzbergerAmerican journalist and non-fiction writer
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Didier QuelozSwiss astronomer
- Frederick ReinesAmerican physicist
- Max FrankelAmerican journalist
- Neil SheehanAmerican writer, historian, soldier
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Kathy BatesAmerican film actress and director
- David BurtkaAmerican actor and professional chef
- Bobbi Kristina BrownAmerican television personality, daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Babak’s cards
Computed from November 11, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
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
Babak’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16048111 (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 Payamzamani 09, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Babak Karimi at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Babak Karimi’s chart
- How old is Babak Karimi?
- Babak Karimi is 65 years old, born November 11, 1960 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- What zodiac sign is Babak Karimi?
- Babak Karimi is a Scorpio: born November 11, 1960, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Babak Karimi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 11, 1960 birth.
- What is Babak Karimi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Babak Karimi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Babak Karimi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Babak Karimi's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
