Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof (born November 16, 1972, Shiraz, Iran), aged 53, is an Iranian filmmaker. Rasoulof is best known for Head Wind, There Is No Evil and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Rasoulof's honours include Golden Bear, Time 100 and Berliner Bär.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Mohammad
Mohammad Rasoulof’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.
How common is the name Mohammad in the U.S.?
#562
US rank in 2025
~17,193
Americans share it since 1964
2022
its peak year
Mohammad ranked 2,057th in 1972, the year of this birth, with 20 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mohammad’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on D (4).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mohammad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Mohammad apart
The shelf Mohammad Rasoulof is read from: Iron Island, Goodbye and The White Meadows.
Training came by way of Shiraz University.
The working life starts in 2001, at 29.
The same date carries Brandi Glanville. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Iron Island, Goodbye and The White Meadows
- Educated at
- Shiraz University
- Awards
- Time 100 (2025), Berliner Bär (2025) and Lumière Award for Best International Co-Production (2025)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter and European Film Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 2001
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Languages
- Persian
- Wikipedia editions
- 31
What the chart says
Mohammad, according to the stars
Core essence
Mohammad does not do surface. The core of Mohammad is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Mohammad is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Mohammad is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Mohammad needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Mohammad wants to be loved
Mohammad wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Mohammad gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Mohammad creates
How Mohammad makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Mohammad 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: Mohammad 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Mohammad 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 Mohammad leads without needing to do it alone.
Computed from Mohammad's birth date. Working below.
Where Mohammad sits
Six lines
Mohammad’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 Mohammad Rasoulof
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shiraz 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 Shiraz that night
Computed for 29.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Shiraz at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 96 catalog stars were up in all.
From 29.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from Shiraz at all: they sit past the −60.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 76% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.
How unusual Mohammad's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →Mohammad Rasoulof at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Mohammad Rasoulof's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Mohammad Rasoulof was born on November 16, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Mohammad Rasoulof's birth date, November 16, 1972, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Mohammad’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mohammad Rasoulof's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Mohammad Rasoulof combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Mohammad’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° 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
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.3° to 1.5° orb
Mohammad’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.4° to 1.7° orb
Mohammad’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Mohammad’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune7.8° to 7.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.2° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 6.2° to 20.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Mohammad’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 4°29′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°19′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 16°07′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Eros trine Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.8°
Mohammad’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Mohammad’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 Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.3°
Born the same day as Mohammad
Brandi Glanville was born on November 16, 1972 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 29.6°N, the sky above Shiraz stops at −60.4° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Mohammad
Other screenwriters
- Neve Campbell1973
- Marlon Wayans1972
- Adam Scott1973
- Deon Cole1972
- Katt Williams1973
- Gwyneth Paltrow1972
Born in Iran
- Doris LessingBritish novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
- Ali-Asghar ShahbaziIranian actor
- Ali KhameneiSupreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
- Shirin EbadiIranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Kimia HosseiniIranian actress
- Jahangir RazmiPulitzer Prize-winning Iranian photographer
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- Akshay VenkateshAustralian number theorist
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on November 16
- José Saramago1922
- Chinua Achebe1930
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- Brandi Glanville1972
- Cindy Kimberly1998
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Edward AlbeeAmerican playwright
- Ida B. WellsAmerican journalist and civil rights activist
- Dean BaquetAmerican journalist
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- Eliud KipchogeKenyan long-distance runner
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Other Gilded Scholars
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- Ola Elizabeth WinslowAmerican colonial historian, professor of English
- Lewis SpratlanAmerican music academic
- Leonard BaconAmerican poet, translator, and literary critic
Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Mohammad’s cards
Computed from November 16, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mohammad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q981853 (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 Mohammad Rasoulof 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 Mohammad Rasoulof.
Quick answers about Mohammad Rasoulof’s chart
- How old is Mohammad Rasoulof?
- Mohammad Rasoulof is 53 years old, born November 16, 1972 in Shiraz, Iran.
- What zodiac sign is Mohammad Rasoulof?
- Mohammad Rasoulof is a Scorpio: born November 16, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Mohammad Rasoulof's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1972 birth.
- What is Mohammad Rasoulof's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mohammad Rasoulof's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mohammad Rasoulof's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mohammad Rasoulof's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
