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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, Chinese zodiac is 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 1969

2024

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Khaled falls under that line for 1965. Its peak came in 2024, and 2,777 Americans have carried it since 1969.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Khaled’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 K (2) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Khaled’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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 Khaled apart

The shelf Khaled Hosseini is read from: And the Mountains Echoed, Sea Prayer and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

The classrooms behind this chart: Independence High School and UC San Diego School of Medicine.

The working life starts in 2003, at 38.

Wikipedia's editors put Khaled Hosseini under Santa Clara University alumni, Afghan expatriates in Iran and Writers from San Jose, California.

Miriam Makeba (1932) and Angela White (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
And the Mountains Echoed, Sea Prayer and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Educated at
Independence High School, UC San Diego School of Medicine and University of California, San Diego
Awards
Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer (2008) and Great Immigrants Award (2009)
Working from
2003
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
86

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. Working below.

Where Khaled sits

Six lines

Khaled’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Khaled

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

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

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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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
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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Kabul that night

Computed for 34.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kabul was Castor, in Gemini, 84.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

From 34.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −55.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kabul on any night.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.

How unusual Khaled's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Pisces · Only two elements · Mars retrograde

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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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.

What Pisces means →

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.

What the Snake means →

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.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Khaled’s chart

Khaled’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableSunoppositionUranus0.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.6° to 1.0° orb

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.6° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 18°01′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 24°45′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Khaled’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Khaled’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.2°

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Khaled’s cards

Computed from March 4, 1965. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Khaled’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193116 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Khaled Hosseini's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Khaled Hosseini's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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