Satyajit Ray’s birth chart
Born 2 May 1921, in Kolkata, India. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Taurus Sun · Moon in Aquarius or Pisces
Satyajit Ray’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Satyajit Ray was born on Monday, 2 May 1921, in Kolkata, India. That made Satyajit a Taurus. The Moon changed sign at about 03:15, from Aquarius to Pisces; which of the two is the Moon sign depends on the hour of birth. Satyajit died on 23 April 1992, aged 70. No verified birth time is on file for Satyajit; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
By element the count is five earth, two fire, two water and no air, leaving out the Moon, whose sign depends on the birth time. By modality the count is four fixed, three mutable and two cardinal. Sun, Mercury and Mars all fall in Taurus. The tightest aspect is Jupiter opposition Uranus, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 13 other people born on 2 May, among them David Beckham, Dwayne Johnson and Lily Allen.
See the sky the day Satyajit was born: the stars over Kolkata, India, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Satyajit Ray’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Taurus
about 11° Taurus at midday
A Taurus Sun builds. Comfort, steadiness and things that last probably matter more to Satyajit Ray than novelty, and people tend to trust someone who does not change their mind for show. The growth edge is letting go before something stops working.
Moon sign
Aquarius or Pisces
Aquarius until about 03:15, then Pisces (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 03:15: Moon in Aquarius
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Satyajit is likely to understand an emotion better than they inhabit it, and to need space and ideas to process. For this Moon, friends are family and freedom is security.
Born after about 03:15: Moon in Pisces
With the Moon in Pisces, Satyajit may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Kolkata, India, at each hour of the day.
Satyajit Ray’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Satyajit yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 2 May 1921, computed for Kolkata, India.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:30 | Aquarius rising |
| 01:30 to 03:00 | Pisces rising |
| 03:00 to 04:30 | Aries rising |
| 04:30 to 06:15 | Taurus rising |
| 06:15 to 08:20 | Gemini rising |
| 08:20 to 10:30 | Cancer rising |
| 10:30 to 12:45 | Leo rising |
| 12:45 to 15:00 | Virgo rising |
| 15:00 to 17:10 | Libra rising |
| 17:10 to 19:25 | Scorpio rising |
| 19:25 to 21:40 | Sagittarius rising |
| 21:40 to 23:40 | Capricorn rising |
| 23:40 to 24:00 | Aquarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 2 May 1921, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 11° Taurus 18' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aquarius until about 03:15, then Pisces |
| Mercury | 1° Taurus 57' |
| Venus | 26° Aries 35'℞ |
| Mars | 27° Taurus 19' |
| Jupiter | 8° Virgo 57'℞ |
| Saturn | 18° Virgo 16'℞ |
| Uranus | 8° Pisces 53' |
| Neptune | 10° Leo 59' |
| Pluto | 7° Cancer 07' |
| North Node | 27° Libra 06' |
| South Node | 27° Aries 06' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Satyajit Ray’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Satyajit Ray’s private life.
A Taurus Sun finds purpose in building something that lasts, and Satyajit Ray's vitality probably runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The drawback is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. People with this Sun can stay in one job or one home long after part of them knows it is time to move.
Moon in Aquarius or Pisces
Aquarius until about 03:15, then Pisces
needs and habits
Born before about 03:15: Moon in Aquarius
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Satyajit is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.
Born after about 03:15: Moon in Pisces
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Satyajit more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
With Mercury in Taurus, Satyajit is likely to think slowly and thoroughly, and a conclusion once reached is rarely revisited without good reason. The communication style is plain and practical rather than showy. A new idea that clashes with what they already believe may have to wait a while for a hearing.
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Satyajit that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.
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 Satyajit 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.
Jupiter in Virgo
8° Virgo 57' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Virgo finds its growth in mastering a craft in unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. For Satyajit, perfectionism may be the excess, turning growth into an endless list of corrections. People with this Jupiter are often trusted with more responsibility than they feel they deserve, usually because the care in the work shows.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Satyajit may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Pisces
8° Pisces 53' at midday
freedom, generational
Satyajit has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
10° Leo 59' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Satyajit alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
7° Cancer 07' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Satyajit to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Satyajit Ray’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Jupiter opposition Uranus
about 0.1° at midday
One side of this opposition wants Satyajit Ray to expand along a familiar path; the other wants them to leave it entirely for something untested. Neither impulse needs to win outright, and trying the new direction on a smaller scale first tends to serve them well.
Sun square Neptune
about 0.3° at midday
A Sun-Neptune square can blur Satyajit's sense of who they are under the pull of an ideal, a cause or someone else's story, until it is unclear where they end and the dream begins. The task is staying inspired without losing their own outline.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
about 1.8° at midday
Meaningful growth without constant upheaval is what Jupiter sextile Pluto describes, with Satyajit's sense of possibility and depth working in concert. The opportunities that matter tend to come at a manageable pace, not all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.
Sun trine Jupiter
about 2.4° at midday
With the Sun trine Jupiter, Satyajit's sense of self and instinct for growth support each other, which gives them a warm, expansive confidence. They are likely to be quick to see an opening and to make the most of it without forcing anything.
Sun sextile Uranus
about 2.4° at midday
There is room for Satyajit to be a little unconventional without losing much by it, since identity and originality get along well here. Other people tend to find this easy, unforced independence refreshing rather than alarming.
Sun sextile Pluto
about 4.2° at midday
Satyajit's identity and depth are allies, which gives them resilience without constant upheaval. They probably handle intensity better than most, and it takes less out of them than it looks from outside, especially once they trust their own steadiness.
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.
- Uranus trine Plutoabout 1.8°
- Mercury conjunction Venusabout 5.4°
- Sun trine Saturnabout 7.0°
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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; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their 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. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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