Hamdi Ulukaya
Hamdi Ulukaya (born October 26, 1972, İliç, Turkey), aged 54, is a Turkish businessperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1972).
Hamdi Ulukaya’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Hamdi
Hamdi Ulukaya’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 Hamdi in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~530
Americans share it since 1988
2016
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Hamdi falls under that line for 1972. Its peak came in 2016, and 530 Americans have carried it since 1988.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hamdi’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on I (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hamdi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Hamdi apart
Hamdi Ulukaya took the Global Citizen Awards in 2018, at 46.
Training came by way of State University of New York at Albany and Ankara University.
On the family side, Hamdi Ulukaya was married Louise Vongerichten.
Hillary Clinton (1947) and Evo Morales (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- State University of New York at Albany and Ankara University
- Awards
- Global Citizen Awards (2018)
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Languages
- Turkish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
What the chart says
Hamdi, according to the stars
Core essence
Hamdi does not do surface. The core of Hamdi 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 Hamdi is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Hamdi wants to be loved
Hamdi 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 Hamdi and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Hamdi creates
How Hamdi makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Hamdi creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Hamdi 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 1 is the pioneer. Hamdi 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 Hamdi 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. Hamdi fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Hamdi's birth date. Working below.
Where Hamdi sits
Six lines
Hamdi’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Hamdi Ulukaya
Three stars chosen from the real sky above İliç 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 İliç that night
Computed for 39.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at İliç at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 10.8° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from İliç on any night.
The Moon, 76% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 51° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- İliç, Turkey
- Lives in
- New Berlin
Wikidata records New Berlin as Hamdi Ulukaya's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hamdi Ulukaya: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hamdi's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Pluto · A leaning bowl
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Hamdi Ulukaya's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 26, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Hamdi Ulukaya was born on October 26, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Hamdi Ulukaya's birth date, October 26, 1972, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Hamdi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hamdi Ulukaya's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Hamdi Ulukaya combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Hamdi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Hamdi’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb
Hamdi’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.5° to 1.3° orb
Hamdi’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Hamdi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 25°13′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 22°18′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 7°28′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.2°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.2°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Hamdi’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Hamdi’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.8°
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on October 26
- Hillary Clinton1947
- Evo Morales1959
- Seth MacFarlane1973
- CM Punk1978
- Keith Urban1967
- Drew Gooden1993
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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- Fred Albert ShannonAmerican historian
- Herbert AgarAmerican journalist
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Hamdi’s cards
Computed from October 26, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hamdi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q12071778 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hamdi Ulukaya.
Quick answers about Hamdi Ulukaya’s chart
- How old is Hamdi Ulukaya?
- Hamdi Ulukaya is 54 years old, born October 26, 1972 in İliç, Turkey.
- What zodiac sign is Hamdi Ulukaya?
- Hamdi Ulukaya is a Scorpio: born October 26, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Hamdi Ulukaya's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 26, 1972 birth.
- What is Hamdi Ulukaya's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Hamdi Ulukaya's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Hamdi Ulukaya's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hamdi Ulukaya's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
