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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965, Kabul, Afghanistan), aged 61, is an Afghan novelist. Hosseini is best known for Sea Prayer, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hosseini's honours include The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal, Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer and Great Immigrants Award.

Khaled Hosseini’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Khaled Hosseini’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Khaled in the U.S.?

#1773

US rank in 2025

~2,777

Americans share it since 1880

2024

its peak year

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Khaled’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Khaled, according to the stars

Core essence

Khaled feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Khaled is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Khaled wants to be loved

Khaled wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Khaled, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Khaled creates

How Khaled makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Khaled creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Khaled is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Khaled 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 Khaled leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Khaled 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 Khaled's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Khaled sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Khaled

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Khaled

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Khaled

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Khaled

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Khaled

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Khaled

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Khaled Hosseini

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kabul on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Khaled’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 84.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 57.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Khaled Hosseini's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 4, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Khaled Hosseini's birth date, March 4, 1965, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Khaled’s chart

Khaled’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Khaled Hosseini, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.3° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.5° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.7° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.6° orbSun in Pisces · 13°31′☉13°Moon in Pisces · 24°00′☽24°Mercury in Pisces · 20°51′☿20°Venus in Pisces · 3°43′♀3°Mars in Virgo · 20°46′ · retrograde♂℞20°Jupiter in Taurus · 20°30′♃20°Saturn in Pisces · 8°19′♄8°Uranus in Virgo · 12°46′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Scorpio · 19°58′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Virgo · 15°04′ · retrograde♇℞15°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Khaled’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Khaled’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.9° orb

    Khaled’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Khaled’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus0.2° to 1.3° orb

    Khaled’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Khaled’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.6° to 1.0° orb

    Khaled’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.0° to 2.1° orb

    Khaled’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.3° orb

    Khaled’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb

    Khaled’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb

    Khaled’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.6° orb

    Khaled’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable8 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.

Khaled’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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 18°01′ (moves 0.06° 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 Khaled absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 24°45′ (moves 0.39° 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. Khaled is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 28°29′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Khaled is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 5°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Khaled is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Khaled is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.6°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.8°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 2.9°

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°).

Khaled’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. 1. ♆ Neptune12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    disposes Neptune; 7 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Khaled is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Khaled’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, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.

  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Khaled Hosseini, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Khaled’s cards

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The Radiant Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Khaled Hosseini, 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

Khaled’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193116, 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 Counse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Khaled Hosseini at Wikipedia, khaledhosseini.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Khaled Hosseini.

Quick answers about Khaled Hosseini’s chart

How old is Khaled Hosseini?
Khaled Hosseini is 61 years old, born March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
What zodiac sign is Khaled Hosseini?
Khaled Hosseini is a Pisces: born March 4, 1965, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
What is Khaled Hosseini's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 4, 1965 birth.
What time was Khaled Hosseini 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 Khaled Hosseini's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 4, 1965 birth date.
What is Khaled Hosseini's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 4, 1965 birth date.
Where is Khaled Hosseini's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Khaled Hosseini's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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