Bengaluru Venkata Raman
Bengaluru Venkata Raman (born August 8, 1912, Bengaluru, India; died 1998), was an Indian astrologer.
Bengaluru Venkata Raman’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Bengaluru
Bengaluru Venkata Raman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
What Bengaluru’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 U (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bengaluru’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Bengaluru apart
Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Bengaluru, according to the stars
Core essence
Bengaluru is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Bengaluru is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Bengaluru processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Bengaluru needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Bengaluru wants to be loved
Bengaluru wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Bengaluru openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Bengaluru creates
How Bengaluru makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Bengaluru creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Bengaluru 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Bengaluru is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bengaluru channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Bengaluru's birth date. Working below.
Where Bengaluru sits
Six lines
Bengaluru’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Bengaluru Venkata Raman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru that night
Computed for 12.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rasalhague stood nearest the zenith over Bengaluru at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.9° above the horizon in Ophiuchus.
Of the 80 catalog stars above the horizon, Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest.
From 13.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 24% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual Bengaluru's chart is
Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Mercury · 2 planets 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
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Bengaluru Venkata Raman's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Bengaluru Venkata Raman was born on August 8, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Bengaluru Venkata Raman's birth date, August 8, 1912, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Bengaluru’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bengaluru Venkata Raman's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bengaluru Venkata Raman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Bengaluru’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Gemini 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
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.0° orb
Bengaluru’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
Bengaluru’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.8° orb
Bengaluru’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.8° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.0° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Bengaluru’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 9°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°51′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°16′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 23°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.3°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.7°
Bengaluru’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bengaluru’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
More people like Bengaluru
Born in India
- Michael BatesBritish actor
- Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer and poet
- Adi GodrejIndian businessman
- N. R. Narayana MurthyIndian businessman
- Vivien LeighBritish actress
- Srinivasa RamanujanIndian mathematician
More charts like Bengaluru’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Shmuel Yosef AgnonUkrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
- Richard WillstätterGerman chemist
- Jules A. HoffmannFrench biologist
Born in Rat years
- George R. R. MartinAmerican writer and television producer
- Dwayne JohnsonAmerican actor and professional wrestler
- LeBron JamesAmerican basketball player
Also born on August 8
- Roger Federer1981
- Paul Dirac1902
- Ernest Lawrence1901
- Roger Penrose1931
- Shawn Mendes1998
- Alysa Liu2005
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Pierre OmidyarAmerican entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
- Viktor VekselbergRussian–Cypriot oligarch and businessman
- Alexander MamutRussian billionaire
Other Leo Rat charts
- Antonio BanderasSpanish actor
- Angie HarmonAmerican actress
- David DuchovnyAmerican actor and writer
- Ali KriegerAmerican soccer player
Other Radiant Guardians
- Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabhabusinessman
- Fredrik LundbergSwedish businessman
- Joe Biden46th President of the United States
- Jennifer AnistonAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Woody HarrelsonAmerican actor
- Siti NurhalizaMalaysian singer, actress, and model
- Geoffrey RushAustralian actor
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Bengaluru’s cards
Computed from August 8, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bengaluru’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2882455 (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 Bengaluru Venkata Raman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bengaluru Venkata Raman.
Quick answers about Bengaluru Venkata Raman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bengaluru Venkata Raman?
- Bengaluru Venkata Raman was a Leo: born August 8, 1912, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Bengaluru Venkata Raman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1912 birth.
- What was Bengaluru Venkata Raman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bengaluru Venkata Raman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bengaluru Venkata Raman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bengaluru Venkata Raman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
