Salman Rushdie’s birth chart
Born 19 June 1947, in Mumbai, India, at 02:30 (Rodden A).
Gemini Sun · Gemini Moon · Taurus rising
Salman Rushdie’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai, India, on 19 June 1947, a Thursday. That makes Salman a Gemini, with the Moon in Gemini and Taurus rising. Salman turns 79 in 2026. The birth time, 02:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
Of the ten planets, five are in air signs, two in fire, two in water and one in earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is two, four and four. Gemini holds a stellium, four planets in one sign: Sun, Moon, Venus and Uranus. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Mercury and Mars, 0.2° from exact. Two planets were retrograde: Jupiter and Neptune. The Moon was new.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 19 June, among them Zoe Saldaña, Jean Dujardin and Kathleen Turner.
See the sky the night Salman was born: the stars over Mumbai, India at 02:30, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Salman Rushdie’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Gemini
26° Gemini 45'
A Gemini Sun connects. Ideas, people and conversations are its element, and Salman Rushdie probably learns by talking things through. This placement is happiest with two projects and a question nobody has answered yet.
Moon sign
Gemini
26° Gemini 30'
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Salman, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
Rising sign
Taurus
0° Taurus 17'
With Taurus rising, the first impression of Salman is calm, grounded and unhurried. People tend to relax around them and to assume that someone so settled is not going anywhere.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 02:30 on 19 June 1947, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 26° Gemini 45' | House 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 26° Gemini 30' | House 2 |
| Mercury | 21° Cancer 22' | House 3 |
| Venus | 6° Gemini 02' | House 2 |
| Mars | 21° Taurus 11' | House 1 |
| Jupiter | 18° Scorpio 46'℞ | House 7 |
| Saturn | 6° Leo 35' | House 4 |
| Uranus | 22° Gemini 13' | House 2 |
| Neptune | 8° Libra 01'℞ | House 6 |
| Pluto | 11° Leo 39' | House 4 |
| North Node | 2° Gemini 27' | House 2 |
| South Node | 2° Sagittarius 27' | House 8 |
Salman Rushdie’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Salman Rushdie’s private life.
For Salman Rushdie, the Sun in Gemini means vitality that comes from variety, and purpose that feels most real when they are learning or explaining something new. What suffers is focus, with energy scattered across too many half-finished things at once. Several projects and three hobbies on the go at the same time would be in character.
The Sun in the second house rests Salman's sense of worth on what is built and looked after over time, not on one good season. They feel most confident when the things they own and make reflect their own taste, their own standards and their own pace.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Salman is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
Security, with the Moon in the second house, comes from familiar things and clearly held values, and for Salman sudden change or big leaps hold little appeal. When their sense of what matters is shaken, their whole mood follows it.
Mercury in Cancer thinks in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and Salman probably communicates best when there is emotional trust in the room. Mood can colour how a fact gets delivered or received. Years after the details have faded, this is a mind that remembers exactly how a conversation felt.
The third house is Mercury's natural home, and words, ideas and quick exchanges come more easily to Salman than to most people. Someone with this placement is often the fastest talker or the sharpest writer in the room.
Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. Salman probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.
With Venus in the second house, Salman has an eye for quality and comfort, and being surrounded by beautiful things probably matters more to them than an outsider would guess. Salman's taste leans towards pleasure, ease and things made well, over things that are merely practical.
Mars in Taurus acts deliberately and sticks with a course once chosen, and its anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. At times Salman may dig in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It takes real provocation to make this Mars snap, and the rattled feeling tends to last a while afterwards.
For Salman, action comes first and thought later, with an energy that is direct, physical and hard to miss when they walk into a room. Someone with Mars in the first house is usually seen as a person who moves the moment a decision is made, rarely one who lingers over it.
Jupiter in Scorpio
18° Scorpio 46' ℞ · seventh house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Salman, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
With Jupiter in the seventh house, Salman is apt to find that their relationships broaden their world, often through new people, places or ideas that a trusted partner brings. Generosity can flow easily in both directions with the people close to them, rarely forced or measured out.
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in Salman's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
Saturn sits in the fourth house of Salman's chart, a placement linked with the weight of home and family responsibility on a person's shoulders, often from early on. With this placement, a stable home is apt to be built by sustained effort, and the security created there tends to mean more because of the work it takes.
Uranus in Gemini
22° Gemini 13' · second house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Salman and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Salman is unlikely to be satisfied for long by conventional measures of worth, and with Uranus in the second house, the idea of what is worth having changes over time. They place value on things that are usually overlooked, and would rather travel light than be tied down by what they own.
Neptune in Libra
8° Libra 01' ℞ · sixth house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Salman among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
With Neptune in the sixth house, a daily routine works best when it includes something restful or quietly meaningful, and rigid, uninspired work wearies Salman in a way that is hard to explain. Being of service to someone often feeds Salman more than the task itself does.
Pluto in Leo
11° Leo 39' · fourth house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Salman, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Salman tends to protect what they build at home fiercely and without much compromise, once it is theirs. Pluto in the fourth house is a placement of intensity around home, where inherited family patterns can take deliberate work to understand and reshape.
Aspects in Salman Rushdie’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mercury sextile Mars
0.2° separating
Speaking up quickly and clearly when it matters comes easily to Salman Rushdie, since thinking and drive work in step. That plain directness serves them well in fast-moving conversations and quick decisions alike.
Sun conjunction Moon
0.3° separating
Salman was born near a new Moon, with the Sun and Moon conjunct, so identity and instinct move as one and what they want rarely argues with what they feel. People with this aspect act from a settled inner place, though it can be hard for them to see themselves from outside when there is no inner distance to work with.
Venus sextile Saturn
0.6° applying
This sextile tends to lend a workable, grounded steadiness to Salman's relationships, since affection and a sense of structure get along. Once Salman decides a commitment is right, it usually comes naturally, without the drama that faster, less considered relationships sometimes carry.
Saturn sextile Neptune
1.4° applying
Salman's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Venus trine Neptune
2.0° applying
Salman is likely to love with a romantic, artistic quality that comes naturally, because affection and imagination flow together under this trine. Compassion and creativity arrive easily, and the people nearby tend to feel cared for as a result.
Mars opposition Jupiter
2.4° separating
Mars opposite Jupiter pits Salman's own direct action against other people's grander plans or expectations, which can end in overcommitting to someone else's vision. Salman's own sense of scale is usually a better guide than anyone else's.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Mercury trine Jupiter2.6°
- Neptune sextile Pluto3.6°
- Moon conjunction Uranus4.3°
- Sun conjunction Uranus4.5°
- Saturn conjunction Pluto5.1°
Gemini Sun and Gemini Moon, like Salman Rushdie
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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