Dileep Rao
Dileep Rao (born July 29, 1973, Los Angeles, United States), aged 53, is an American actor.
Dileep Rao’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Your match with Dileep
Dileep Rao’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 Dileep’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on P (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dileep’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Gold · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, 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 Dileep apart
Claremont High School and University of California, San Diego shaped the training.
The working life starts in 2006, at 33.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Dileep Rao: Claremont High School (California) alumni, American people of Kannada descent and University of California, San Diego alumni.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Josh Radnor (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Claremont High School and University of California, San Diego
- Working from
- 2006
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Dileep, according to the stars
Core essence
Dileep is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Dileep 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.
How Dileep wants to be loved
Dileep wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Dileep and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Dileep creates
How Dileep 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. Dileep 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: Dileep 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Dileep 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Dileep gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Dileep's birth date. Working below.
Where Dileep sits
Six lines
Dileep’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 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 Dileep Rao
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Kornephoros stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.4° above the horizon in Hercules.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
How unusual Dileep's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury · 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
Leo Sun
Warm, loud, hard to ignore.
Dileep Rao's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Ox
Says little. Finishes everything.
Dileep Rao was born on July 29, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Quiet power, real power.
Dileep Rao's birth date, July 29, 1973, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Dileep’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dileep Rao's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Dileep Rao 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.
Dileep’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Cancer or 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
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 6.9° orb
Dileep’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMercurysquareMars0.1° to 0.7° orb
Dileep’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.3° to 1.4° orb
Dileep’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.3° to 1.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune1.3° to 2.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.9° to 5.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Dileep’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°54′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 19°56′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°09′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 28°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres square Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.0°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.8°
- Eros sextile Mercury 3.0°
Dileep’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dileep’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Uranus, 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.
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
More people like Dileep
Other actors
- Nick Lachey1973
- Molly Sims1973
- Nas1973
- Brian Austin Green1973
- Holly Marie Combs1973
- Tori Spelling1973
Born in United States
- Jen ShahAmerican television personality
- Juliette LewisAmerican actress and singer
- Janelle BrownAmerican writer
- Monica LewinskyAmerican activist and writer (born 1973)
- Seth MacFarlaneAmerican writer, actor, and producer
- Eddie CibrianAmerican actor (born 1973)
More charts like Dileep’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Koichi TanakaJapanese chemist
- Roger SperryAmerican neuroscientist
- Salvatore QuasimodoItalian writer
Born in Ox years
- John KeyPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016
- Neil Patrick HarrisAmerican actor
- Ashley TisdaleAmerican actress and singer
Also born on July 29
- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
- Josh Radnor1974
- Sanjay Dutt1959
- Ginni Rometty1957
- Tim Gunn1953
- Fernando Alonso1981
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Alice MunroCanadian writer
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner
Other Leo Ox charts
- Auguste BeernaertBelgian prime minister and human rights activist
- Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister
- Baruch Samuel BlumbergAmerican physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner
- Wolfgang PaulGerman physicist
Other Radiant Guardians
- Fredrik LundbergSwedish businessman
- Joe Biden46th President of the United States
- Jennifer AnistonAmerican actress
- Melania TrumpFirst Lady of the United States
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Oscar IsaacGuatemalan-American actor
- Lucy HaleAmerican actress and singer
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Dileep’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dileep’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1225469 (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 Dileep Rao at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dileep Rao.
Quick answers about Dileep Rao’s chart
- How old is Dileep Rao?
- Dileep Rao is 53 years old, born July 29, 1973 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dileep Rao?
- Dileep Rao is a Leo: born July 29, 1973, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Dileep Rao's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1973 birth.
- What is Dileep Rao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dileep Rao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dileep Rao's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dileep Rao's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.







