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Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri (born February 13, 1954, Bengaluru, India), aged 72, is an American poet. Seshadri's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Vijay Seshadri’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Vijay Seshadri’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 Vijay in the U.S.?

#13771

US rank in 2025

~1,495

Americans share it since 1963

2006

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Vijay falls under that line for 1954. Its peak came in 2006, and 1,495 Americans have carried it since 1963.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Vijay’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

33

Expression · lifting other people

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on V (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Vijay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

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 1954, 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 Vijay apart

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry came in 2014, when Vijay Seshadri was 60.

Study took Vijay Seshadri to Oberlin College and Columbia University.

Wikipedia files Vijay Seshadri under Writers from Bengaluru, American people of Indian Tamil descent and Indian emigrants to the United States.

William Shockley (1910) and Robbie Williams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Oberlin College and Columbia University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2014)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
13

What the chart says

Vijay, according to the stars

Core essence

Vijay is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Vijay is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Vijay wants to be loved

Vijay 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 Vijay be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Vijay creates

How Vijay makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Vijay 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: Vijay is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Vijay 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. Vijay 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 Vijay's birth date. Working below.

Where Vijay sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Vijay

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Vijay

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Vijay

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Vijay

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

PracticalVisionary
Vijay

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Vijay

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Vijay Seshadri

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bengaluru on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Vijay’s birth-night reference starAlhenawhite · GeminiAlhena, in Gemini. A white star, 83.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alhena →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 54.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bengaluru that night

Computed for 12.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Bengaluru at 9 p.m. that evening: Alhena of Gemini, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Bengaluru sits at 13.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 83% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Vijay's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets

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.

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Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Vijay Seshadri's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 13, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Vijay Seshadri was born on February 13, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Vijay Seshadri's birth date, February 13, 1954, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Vijay’s chart

Vijay’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.7° orbSun in Aquarius · 24°02′☉24°Moon in Cancer · 0°44′☽0°Mercury in Pisces · 12°09′☿12°Venus in Aquarius · 27°28′♀27°Mars in Sagittarius · 1°55′♂1°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°26′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°20′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 19°46′ · retrograde♅℞19°Neptune in Libra · 25°59′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 23°48′ · retrograde♇℞23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Vijay’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.9° to 2.1° orb

    Vijay’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.4° to 2.5° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto3.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars4.1° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.2° orb

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°53′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 13°12′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 22°58′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 18°46′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.0°
  • Eros square Pluto 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.0°
  • Chiron square Neptune 1.1°
  • Eros square Sun 1.1°

Vijay’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Vijay’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.

  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°

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Vijay’s cards

Computed from February 13, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Vijay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7929205 (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.

The same Vijay Seshadri at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Vijay Seshadri.

Quick answers about Vijay Seshadri’s chart

How old is Vijay Seshadri?
Vijay Seshadri is 72 years old, born February 13, 1954 in Bengaluru, India.
What zodiac sign is Vijay Seshadri?
Vijay Seshadri is an Aquarius: born February 13, 1954, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Vijay Seshadri's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 13, 1954 birth.
What is Vijay Seshadri's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Vijay Seshadri's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Vijay Seshadri's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Vijay Seshadri's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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