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Rami Malek

Rami Malek (born May 12, 1981, Los Angeles, United States, 08:41), aged 45, is an American actor. Notable films include Oppenheimer, 24 and Bohemian Rhapsody. Malek's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.

Rami Malek’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Rami Malek’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1106

US rank in 2025

~4,122

Americans share it since 1963

2025

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1981, Rami came 1,755th among boys and 7,940th among girls, carried by 33 American boys and 8 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Rami’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

7

Soul Urge · understanding

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on R (9) and closes on I (9).

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

Rami’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

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 1981, 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 Rami apart

Rami Malek took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2016, at 35.

Notre Dame High School and University of Evansville shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2004, at 23.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Rami Malek: American people of Egyptian descent, Male actors from Torrance, California and Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, California) alumni.

Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Notre Dame High School and University of Evansville
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actor (2019), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (2019) and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2019)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
2004
Citizenship
United States and Egypt
Languages
English and Egyptian Arabic
Wikipedia editions
81

What the chart says

Rami, according to the stars

Core essence

Rami is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Rami is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Rami is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Rami needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Rami wants to be loved

Rami wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Rami like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Rami creates

How Rami makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Rami 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: Rami is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Rami is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Rami 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 Rami's birth date. Working below.

Where Rami sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Rami

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rami

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Rami

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rami

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

PracticalVisionary
Rami

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rami

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 08:41, Rami Malek’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at the birth hour, 83.8° above the horizon in Pegasus.

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

From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun -33° below the horizon, Moon down and 67% lit at first quarter.

What Rami's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機 in 丑

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 4/6

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

52 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Sun · Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Rami Malek in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Rami Malek's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Rami Malek was born on May 12, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Rami Malek's birth date, May 12, 1981, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Rami’s chart

Rami’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.4° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.6° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.7° orbSun in Taurus · 21°49′ · house 11☉21°Moon in Virgo · 11°50′ · house 3☽11°Mercury in Gemini · 8°08′ · house 12☿8°Venus in Gemini · 1°01′ · house 12♀1°Mars in Taurus · 12°54′ · house 11♂12°Jupiter in Libra · 0°47′ · house 4 · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Libra · 3°27′ · house 4 · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Scorpio · 28°23′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°19′ · house 6 · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Libra · 22°11′ · house 4 · retrograde♇℞22°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 3°58′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 3°58′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 16°14′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 16°14′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • VenustrineJupiterseparating · 0.2° orb

    Rami’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • MoontrineMarsapplying · 1.1° orb

    Rami’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.1° orb

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

  • VenustrineSaturnapplying · 2.4° orb

  • JupitersextileUranusapplying · 2.4° orb

  • VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 2.6° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.7° orb

  • MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 3.7° orb

  • MercurytrineSaturnseparating · 4.7° orb

  • JupitersquareNeptuneapplying · 6.5° orb

  • SunoppositionUranusapplying · 6.6° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 7.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 18°17′ · House 11

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 28°56′ · House 1

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 20°48′ · House 9

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 16°28′ · House 12

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°56′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.0°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.0°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 2.1°

Rami’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Rami’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Sun · Neptune, Pluto, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 2.5°

Rami’s houses

Rami’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Virgo, house 3emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Taurus, house 11emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 12Moonmind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Gemini, house 12Jupiter, Saturn, Plutohome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 4Uranuscreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 4Neptunework, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 4emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 6emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Taurus, house 11emptycareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 12Sun, Marsfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 12Mercury, Venusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Rami’s cards

Computed from May 12, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rami’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q375590 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Dominick D, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rami Malek at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rami Malek.

Quick answers about Rami Malek’s chart

How old is Rami Malek?
Rami Malek is 45 years old, born May 12, 1981 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Rami Malek?
Rami Malek is a Taurus: born May 12, 1981, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Rami Malek's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1981 birth.
What time was Rami Malek born?
08:41 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Rami Malek's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 08:41 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Rami Malek's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Rami Malek's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Rami Malek's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Rami Malek's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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