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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~671
Americans share it since 1880
1994
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Jafar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Jafar Panahi, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Jafar’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileMars3.9° to 4.1° orb
Jafar’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarssquareUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
Jafar’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb
Jafar’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
Jafar’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 1°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Jafar absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 28°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Jafar is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosTaurus 12°39′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Jafar wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°27′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Jafar is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 7°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Jafar guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Jafar’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Jafar is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Jafar’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jafar Panahi, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jafar’s cards
Every card is computed from July 11, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Jafar Panahi, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jafar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q31637, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- 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 time was Jafar Panahi born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Jafar Panahi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 11, 1960 birth date.
- What is Jafar Panahi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 11, 1960 birth date.
- 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.
