Tarık Akan
Tarık Akan (born December 13, 1949, Istanbul, Turkey; died 2016), was a Turkish actor and film producer. Akan's honours include Golden Orange Life Achievement Award.
Tarık Akan’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Tarık Akan
Tarık Akan’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Tarık Akan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tarık Akan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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 Tarık Akan apart
Study took Tarık Akan to Yıldız Technical University.
Tarık Akan was 21 when the work began in 1970.
The record gives lung cancer as the cause, and Bakırköy Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Tarık Akan was raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Burials at Zuhuratbaba Cemetery, Deaths from lung cancer in Turkey and Yıldız Technical University alumni.
Manny Villar shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Yıldız Technical University
- Working from
- 1970
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Bakırköy Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Languages
- Arabic
- Wikipedia editions
- 24
What the chart says
Tarık Akan, according to the stars
Core essence
Tarık Akan is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Tarık Akan is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Tarık Akan wants to be loved
Tarık Akan wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Tarık Akan be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Tarık Akan creates
How Tarık Akan makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Tarık Akan creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Tarık Akan 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Tarık Akan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Tarık Akan channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Tarık Akan's birth date. Working below.
Where Tarık Akan sits
Six lines
Tarık Akan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Tarık Akan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Istanbul 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 Istanbul that night
Computed for 41.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Istanbul at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Istanbul sits at 41.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Istanbul on any night.
The Moon was at last quarter, 42% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Istanbul, Turkey
The death is recorded at Istanbul, Istanbul Province in 2016.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Tarık Akan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Tarık's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Tarık Akan's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 13, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Tarık Akan was born on December 13, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Tarık Akan's birth date, December 13, 1949, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Tarık Akan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tarık Akan's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Tarık Akan combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Tarık Akan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb
Tarık Akan’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 7.7° orb
Tarık Akan’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Tarık Akan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 5.6° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Tarık Akan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 13°36′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 17°10′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 27°01′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°09′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.0°
Tarık Akan’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Tarık Akan’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.5°
Born the same day as Tarık Akan
Manny Villar was born on December 13, 1949 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Istanbul, at 41.0°N, nothing below −49.0° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Tarık Akan
Other actors
- Bill Nighy1949
- Don Johnson1949
- Jeff Bridges1949
- Sissy Spacek1949
- David Foster1949
- Natalie Cole1950
Born in Turkey
- Şerif SezerTurkish actor (born 1946)
- Orhan PamukTurkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate
- Aziz SancarTurkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
- Fatih BirolTurkish economist and energy expert
- Çetin TekindorTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Murat ÜlkerTurkish businessperson (born 1959)
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on December 13
- Taylor Swift1989
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Michael ChabonAmerican novelist, short story writer, essayist
- Frederick Jackson TurnerAmerican historian
- Paul ZindelAmerican dramatist and children's writer
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Other Radiant Healers
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- Jalen WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Tarık Akan’s cards
Computed from December 13, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tarık Akan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2064734 (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 Ozgur Poyrazoglu, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tarık Akan at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tarık Akan.
Quick answers about Tarık Akan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Tarık Akan?
- Tarık Akan was a Sagittarius: born December 13, 1949, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Tarık Akan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 13, 1949 birth.
- What was Tarık Akan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Tarık Akan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Tarık Akan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Tarık Akan's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
