Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi (born July 11, 1960, Mianeh, Iran), aged 66, is an Iranian film director. Panahi is best known for Taxi, It Was Just an Accident and The White Balloon. Panahi's honours include Un Certain Regard, Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien and Golden Leopard.
Jafar Panahi’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jafar
Jafar Panahi’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jafar in the U.S.?
#6961
US rank in 2025
~671
Americans share it since 1975
1994
its peak year
Jafar is in US records from 1975, but 1960 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1994.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jafar’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jafar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · 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 Jafar apart
Giorgio Armani (1934) and Lil' Kim (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Languages
- Persian, Iranian and Azerbaijani
What the chart says
Jafar, according to the stars
Core essence
Jafar feels the room before entering it. The core of Jafar is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Jafar, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Jafar wants to be loved
Jafar wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jafar gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Jafar creates
How Jafar makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jafar 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: Jafar 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 7 is the seeker. Jafar is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jafar is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Jafar's birth date. Working below.
Where Jafar sits
Six lines
Jafar’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Jafar Panahi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mianeh 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 Mianeh that night
Computed for 37.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mianeh was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 78.1° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 79 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mianeh on any night.
The Moon, 88% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Mianeh, Iran
- Lives in
- Tehran
Wikidata records Tehran as Jafar Panahi'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 Jafar Panahi: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jafar's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 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 →Jafar Panahi at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Jafar Panahi's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 11, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Jafar Panahi was born on July 11, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Jafar Panahi's birth date, July 11, 1960, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jafar’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jafar Panahi's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
- Jafar Panahi combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Jafar’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Jafar’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
Jafar’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 4.7° orb
Jafar’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 2.5° to 17.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.6° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Jafar’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 1°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 28°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 12°39′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°27′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 7°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.1°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.8°
Jafar’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jafar’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
More people like Jafar
Other directors
- Ridley Scott1937
- Eddie Murphy1961
- Gian Maria Volonte1933
- Seth MacFarlane1973
- Richard Attenborough1923
- Max Mitchell1999
Born in Iran
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- Ali KhameneiSupreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
- Adam ForoughiIranian-born American businessman, CEO of AppLovin
- Sam AsghariIranian-American model and fitness trainer (born 1994)
- Narges MohammadiIranian human rights activist (born 1972)
- Shirin EbadiIranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
More charts like Jafar’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- David C. TurnleyAmerican photographer
- Frank LoesserAmerican songwriter
- Anthony R. DolanSpeechwriter to Ronald Reagan
Born in Rat years
- Wells AdamsAmerican reality television participant
- Fantasia BarrinoAmerican singer
- Selma BlairAmerican actress (born 1972)
Also born on July 11
- Giorgio Armani1934
- Lil' Kim1974
- Lisa Rinna1963
- Joan Smalls1988
- Justin Chambers1970
- Richie Sambora1959
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Ron LivingstonAmerican actor
- Monica LewinskyAmerican activist and writer (born 1973)
- Tommy MottolaAmerican music executive
Other Cancer Rat charts
- Frits ZernikeDutch physicist
- Herbert Spencer GasserAmerican physiologist
- Walther Hermann NernstGerman physical chemist and physicist
- Paul ConradAmerican political cartoonist and sculptor
Other Gilded Visionarys
- László KrasznahorkaiHungarian novelist and screenwriter
- Giorgio ParisiItalian physicist (1948-)
- Andrea M. GhezAmerican astronomer
- José Ramos-Horta2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Edward TellerHungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist
- Ashton KutcherAmerican actor
- Jack BlackAmerican actor, comedian, singer, musician and producer
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Jafar’s cards
Computed from July 11, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jafar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q31637 (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 Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jafar Panahi at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jafar Panahi.
Quick answers about Jafar Panahi’s chart
- How old is Jafar Panahi?
- Jafar Panahi is 66 years old, born July 11, 1960 in Mianeh, Iran.
- What zodiac sign is Jafar Panahi?
- Jafar Panahi is a Cancer: born July 11, 1960, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Jafar Panahi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 11, 1960 birth.
- What is Jafar Panahi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jafar Panahi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jafar Panahi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jafar Panahi's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
