Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936, Mumbai, India), aged 90, is an Indian conductor. Mehta's honours include Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan.
Zubin Mehta’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Zubin Mehta’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.
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Zubin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Zubin, according to the stars
Core essence
Zubin is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Zubin is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Zubin needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Zubin needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Zubin wants to be loved
Zubin wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Zubin creates
How Zubin makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Zubin creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Zubin is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Zubin 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Zubin 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 Zubin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Zubin Mehta's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Zubin Mehta was born on April 29, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Zubin Mehta's birth date, April 29, 1936, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Zubin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Zubin Mehta's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Zubin Mehta combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Zubin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Zubin Mehta, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Leo 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.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb
Zubin’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.8° to 2.1° orb
Zubin’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.2° to 2.8° orb
Zubin’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto2.2° to 3.5° orb
Zubin’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb
Zubin’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.6° to 4.8° orb
Zubin’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb
Zubin’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
Zubin’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineNeptune5.4° to 6.1° orb
Zubin’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
Zubin’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.7° orb
Zubin’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Zubin’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°45′ (moves 0.07° 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 Zubin turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°11′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Zubin is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 23°28′ (moves 0.92° 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. Zubin is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Zubin is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Zubin that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Chiron square Neptune 0.4°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.5°
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°).
Zubin’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Zubin is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Zubin’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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Zubin Mehta, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Zubin’s cards
Every card is computed from April 29, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Zubin Mehta, 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
Zubin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157635, 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 Alexander Khanin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Zubin Mehta at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Zubin Mehta.
Quick answers about Zubin Mehta’s chart
- How old is Zubin Mehta?
- Zubin Mehta is 90 years old, born April 29, 1936 in Mumbai, India.
- What zodiac sign is Zubin Mehta?
- Zubin Mehta is a Taurus: born April 29, 1936, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- What is Zubin Mehta's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1936 birth.
- What time was Zubin Mehta 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 is Zubin Mehta's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the April 29, 1936 birth date.
- What is Zubin Mehta's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 29, 1936 birth date.
- Where is Zubin Mehta's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Zubin Mehta's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
