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Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava (born August 8, 1974, Hamilton, Canada), aged 52, is an Indo-Canadian mathematician. Bhargava's honours include Fields medal, Padma Bhushan in science & engineering and Clay Research Award.

Manjul Bhargava’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Manjul Bhargava’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.

What Manjul’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Manjul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

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 1974, 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 Manjul apart

Manjul Bhargava took the Morgan Prize in 1996, at 22.

Training came by way of Plainedge High School and Princeton University.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Manjul Bhargava: Canadian people of Indian descent, American academics of Indian descent and People from North Massapequa, New York.

Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Plainedge High School, Princeton University and Harvard University
Awards
Fields medal (2014), Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) and Fermat Prize (2011)
Citizenship
Canada and United States
Wikipedia editions
41

What the chart says

Manjul, according to the stars

Core essence

Manjul is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Manjul is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Manjul runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Manjul needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Manjul wants to be loved

Manjul 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. Manjul gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Manjul creates

How Manjul makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Manjul creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Manjul is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

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

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Manjul 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 Manjul's birth date. Working below.

Where Manjul sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Manjul

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Manjul

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

PrivateExpressive
Manjul

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Manjul

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Manjul

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Manjul

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Manjul Bhargava

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

Manjul’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 78.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Hamilton that night

Computed for 43.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hamilton at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 11.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 43.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −46.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hamilton on any night.

The Moon, 71% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

How unusual Manjul's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Venus

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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The quick version

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Manjul Bhargava's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Tiger

Leads by moving.

Manjul Bhargava was born on August 8, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Manjul Bhargava's birth date, August 8, 1974, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Manjul’s chart

Manjul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.1° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 15°43′☉15°Moon in Aries · 16°48′☽16°Mercury in Leo · 6°16′☿6°Venus in Cancer · 22°18′♀22°Mars in Virgo · 7°35′♂7°Jupiter in Pisces · 16°16′ · retrograde♃℞16°Saturn in Cancer · 13°15′♄13°Uranus in Libra · 24°16′♅24°Neptune in Sagittarius · 6°52′ · retrograde♆℞6°Pluto in Libra · 4°52′♇4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.6° orb

    Manjul’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Manjul’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.4° to 2.4° orb

    Manjul’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.4° to 1.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus1.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter5.4° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 1.2° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.7° to 16.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Manjul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°54′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 14°50′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 7°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.4°
  • Eros square Sun 0.9°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.6°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.1°

Manjul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Manjul’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.

  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.7°

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Manjul’s cards

Computed from August 8, 1974. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Manjul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1398727 (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 Schmid, Renate, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Manjul Bhargava at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Manjul Bhargava.

Quick answers about Manjul Bhargava’s chart

How old is Manjul Bhargava?
Manjul Bhargava is 52 years old, born August 8, 1974 in Hamilton, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Manjul Bhargava?
Manjul Bhargava is a Leo: born August 8, 1974, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Manjul Bhargava's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1974 birth.
What is Manjul Bhargava's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Manjul Bhargava's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Manjul Bhargava's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Manjul Bhargava's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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