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Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (born November 2, 1965, New Delhi, India, 06:25), aged 61, is an Indian actor, producer and television personality. Notable films include Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sadness..., Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Devdas. Khan's honours include Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role, Filmfare Award for Best Actor and Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.

Shah Rukh Khan’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Shah Rukh Khan’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#7121

US rank in 2025

~440

Americans share it since 1972

2009

its peak year

US records hold Shah from 1972 onward, though not for 1965 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2009 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Shah’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 8, which numerology reads as ambition.

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

Shah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

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 1965, 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 Shah apart

Shah Rukh Khan took the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut in 1993, at 28.

The classrooms behind this chart: National School of Drama and Jamia Millia Islamia.

The working life starts in 1988, at 23.

Shah Rukh Khan was born to Lateef Fatima and Taj Mohammed Khan, married Gauri Khan and raised 3 children.

Wikipedia's editors put Shah Rukh Khan under Film producers from Delhi, Hansraj College alumni and Male actors from Delhi.

David Schwimmer (1966) and Larry Fink (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
National School of Drama, Jamia Millia Islamia and University of Delhi
Instruments
voice
Awards
Time 100 (2023), Filmfare Award for Best Actor (2005) and Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role (1995)
Working from
1988
Citizenship
India
Wikipedia editions
136

What the chart says

Shah, according to the stars

Core essence

Shah does not do surface. The core of Shah 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 Shah is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Shah needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Shah needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Shah wants to be loved

Shah 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 Shah and watch them fall for you again.

How Shah creates

How Shah makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Shah 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: Shah is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Shah is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Shah has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Shah's birth date. Working below.

Where Shah sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Shah

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shah

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

PrivateExpressive
Shah

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shah

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Shah

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shah

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above New Delhi at 06:25, Shah Rukh Khan’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New Delhi that night

Computed for 28.61°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at New Delhi was Asellus Australis, in Cancer, 79.6° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 28.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Acrux cannot be seen from New Delhi at all: they sit past the −61.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 57% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 2° down.

The name and the places

Born in
New Delhi, India
Lives in
Mumbai

Wikidata records Mumbai as Shah Rukh Khan's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Shah's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Breaker 破軍 in 申

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 2/5

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · 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.

Score your own chart →

Shah Rukh Khan at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Shah Rukh Khan's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

Shah Rukh Khan was born on November 2, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Shah Rukh Khan's birth date, November 2, 1965, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Shah’s chart

Shah’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.5° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.5° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 3° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Scorpio · 9°24′ · house 1☉9°Moon in Aquarius · 16°52′ · house 4☽16°Mercury in Scorpio · 29°43′ · house 1☿29°Venus in Sagittarius · 25°58′ · house 2♀25°Mars in Sagittarius · 20°49′ · house 2♂20°Jupiter in Cancer · 1°01′ · house 9 · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Pisces · 10°37′ · house 5 · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Virgo · 18°22′ · house 11♅18°Neptune in Scorpio · 19°21′ · house 1♆19°Pluto in Virgo · 17°50′ · house 11♇17°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 6°43′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 6°43′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 9°37′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 9°37′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.5° orb

    Shah’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • UranussextileNeptuneapplying · 1.0° orb

    Shah’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SuntrineSaturnapplying · 1.2° orb

    Shah’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.5° orb

  • MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MarssquareUranusseparating · 2.5° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb

  • MoonsextileMarsapplying · 4.0° orb

  • VenusconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.1° orb

  • VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 5.1° orb

  • SaturnoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.2° orb

  • SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°18′ · House 5

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 18°40′ · House 5

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 2°10′ · House 5

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°02′ · House 11

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°12′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.3°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.7°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 0.8°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.0°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.8°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.5°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.5°

Shah’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars7 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Shah’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
  • Moon quincunx Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
  • Moon quincunx Uranus 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°

Shah’s houses

Shah’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 11Sun, Mercury, Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 9Venus, Marsmoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Pisces, house 5emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 11Moonhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 1Saturncreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 2emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 1emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 4Jupiterbelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Scorpio, house 1emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 1Uranus, Plutofriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 2emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Shah’s cards

Computed from November 2, 1965. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Shah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9535 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Shah Rukh Khan at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Shah Rukh Khan.

Quick answers about Shah Rukh Khan’s chart

How old is Shah Rukh Khan?
Shah Rukh Khan is 61 years old, born November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India.
What zodiac sign is Shah Rukh Khan?
Shah Rukh Khan is a Scorpio: born November 2, 1965, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What is Shah Rukh Khan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1965 birth.
What time was Shah Rukh Khan born?
06:25 local time in New Delhi, India, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Shah Rukh Khan's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 06:25 birth time in New Delhi, India (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Shah Rukh Khan's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Shah Rukh Khan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 18°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Shah Rukh Khan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Shah Rukh Khan's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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