Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947, Mumbai, India, 02:30), aged 79, is an Indian-born English and American novelist. Rushdie is best known for The Satanic Verses. Rushdie's honours include Booker Prize, Knight Bachelor and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Salman Rushdie’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
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Salman Rushdie’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~2,583
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
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Salman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Salman, according to the stars
Core essence
Salman is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Salman needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Salman processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Salman needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Salman wants to be loved
Salman 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 Salman like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Salman creates
How Salman 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. Salman 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: Salman is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Salman 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 Salman leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Salman 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 Salman's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Salman Rushdie's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Salman Rushdie's birth date, June 19, 1947, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Salman’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Salman Rushdie's timed chart: Mars in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 7th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Salman Rushdie's timed chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Moon, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Salman Rushdie combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Salman’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 0.2° orb
Salman’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunconjunctionMoonseparating · 0.3° orb
Salman’s core identity and feelings act as one.
VenussextileSaturnapplying · 0.6° orb
Salman’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturnsextileNeptuneapplying · 1.4° orb
Salman’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 2.0° orb
Salman’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarsoppositionJupiterseparating · 2.4° orb
Salman’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 2.6° orb
Salman’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb
Salman’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.3° orb
Salman’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
Salman’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
SaturnconjunctionPlutoapplying · 5.1° orb
Salman’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Salman’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°27′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Salman carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresAries 24°45′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Salman looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 7°39′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Salman attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 6°25′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Salman needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°34′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Salman is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.4°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.1°
- Eros opposition Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Moon 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.0°
- Chiron opposition Ascendant 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
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°).
Salman’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Moon, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Salman is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Salman’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Moon, Venus, UranusThree 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 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.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Moon semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
Salman’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 2 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 3 | Sun, Moon, Venus, Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 2 | Mercury | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 2 | Saturn, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 2 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 4 | Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 1 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Salman’s cards
Every card is computed from June 19, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Salman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44306, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Salman Rushdie at Wikipedia, salmanrushdie.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Salman Rushdie’s chart
- How old is Salman Rushdie?
- Salman Rushdie is 79 years old, born June 19, 1947 in Mumbai, India.
- What zodiac sign is Salman Rushdie?
- Salman Rushdie is a Gemini: born June 19, 1947, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Salman Rushdie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 19, 1947 birth.
- What time was Salman Rushdie born?
- 02:30 local time in Mumbai, India, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Salman Rushdie's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 02:30 birth time in Mumbai, India (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Salman Rushdie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 19, 1947 birth date.
- What is Salman Rushdie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 19, 1947 birth time.
- Where is Salman Rushdie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Salman Rushdie's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Moon, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
