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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Zubin
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.
How common is the name Zubin in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~355
Americans share it since 1970
2004
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Zubin falls under that line for 1936. Its peak came in 2004, and 355 Americans have carried it since 1970.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Zubin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on Z (8) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Zubin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Zubin apart
Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Zubin sits
Six lines
Zubin’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 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.
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 Zubin Mehta
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mumbai 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 Mumbai that night
Computed for 19.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Zosma stood nearest the zenith over Mumbai at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Leo.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 19.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 62% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
How unusual Zubin's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Taurus · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Leo 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
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
stableSunconjunctionUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.4° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 13°45′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°11′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°28′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Zubin’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Zubin’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.5°
More people like Zubin
Other conductors
- Seiji Ozawa1935
- James Levine1943
- Leon Fleisher1928
- Merce Cunningham1919
- Eugene Ormandy1899
Born in India
- Azim PremjiIndian business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist
- Michael BatesBritish actor
- N. R. Narayana MurthyIndian businessman
- Indira GandhiPrime Minister of India
- Hugh Keays-ByrneBritish-Australian actor
- Vivien LeighBritish actress
More charts like Zubin’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Yusef KomunyakaaAmerican poet and academic (born 1947)
- Michael ColgrassCanadian musician and composer
- Leo SowerbyAmerican composer and church musician
Born in Rat years
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- Yukio MishimaJapanese author
- Cameron DiazAmerican actress and model
Also born on April 29
- Anggun1974
- Uma Thurman1970
- Michelle Pfeiffer1958
- Daniel Day-Lewis1957
- Candace Owens1989
- Mirra Andreeva2007
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Thomas WartonEnglish literary historian, critic, poet
- Lieke MarsmanDutch poet
- Cecil Day-LewisIrish-born British poet
Other Taurus Rat charts
- Andrés IniestaSpanish footballer and manager
- Kiyohiko IchiharaJapanese actor
- Tony RevoloriAmerican actor
- Asghar FarhadiIranian screenwriter and film director
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Les PayneAmerican journalist
- James LapineAmerican stage director and librettist. (born 1949)
- Elliot G. JaspinAmerican journalist
- Frank ConniffAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Beauden BarrettNew Zealand rugby union player
- Louis Rees-ZammitWelsh rugby and American football player
- Maro ItojeEnglish rugby union player
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Zubin’s cards
Computed from April 29, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Zubin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157635 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Zubin Mehta's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Zubin Mehta's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
