Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata (born December 28, 1937, Mumbai, India; died 2024), was an Indian industrialist. Tata's honours include Padma Bhushan, Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Ratan Tata’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Ox, with 
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Ratan Tata’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
Ratan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ratan, according to the stars
Core essence
Ratan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ratan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Ratan feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ratan needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Ratan wants to be loved
Ratan wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Ratan and watch them fall for you again.
How Ratan creates
How Ratan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ratan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Ratan is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ratan is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Ratan slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Ratan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ratan sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Ratan Tata's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 28, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Ratan Tata was born on December 28, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Ratan Tata's birth date, December 28, 1937, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Ratan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ratan Tata's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ratan Tata combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Ratan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ratan Tata, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Ratan’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.5° orb
Ratan’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
Ratan’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb
Ratan’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto2.2° to 2.4° orb
Ratan’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.7° to 2.9° orb
Ratan’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 5.5° orb
Ratan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
Ratan’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.3° to 6.5° orb
Ratan’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.8° orb
Ratan’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.3° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ratan’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 27°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Ratan turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresPisces 1°57′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Ratan is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Gemini 7°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Ratan is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 29°32′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Ratan is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Ratan leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Eros square Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 3.0°
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°).
Ratan’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. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Ratan is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Ratan’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.
T-square onto Venus · Saturn, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ratan Tata, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Ratan’s cards
Every card is computed from December 28, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ratan Tata, 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
Ratan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q333460, 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 Wmgwarwick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ratan Tata at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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.
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Quick answers about Ratan Tata’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ratan Tata?
- Ratan Tata was a Capricorn: born December 28, 1937, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox.
- What was Ratan Tata's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 28, 1937 birth.
- What time was Ratan Tata 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 was Ratan Tata's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 28, 1937 birth date.
- What was Ratan Tata's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 28, 1937 birth date.
- Where was Ratan Tata's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ratan Tata's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
