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Ravi Shankar’s birth chart

Sitar playerBorn April 7, 1920, Varanasi, IndiaDied December 11, 2012

Direct, brave and impatient with waiting.

  • SunAriesThe Pioneer
  • MoonSagittariusor Scorpio
  • VenusPiscesThe Tender Heart

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Aries, the Pioneer

    Direct, brave and impatient with waiting. At his best with a fresh start and a door nobody has opened yet. Imagination and identity worked together: he could become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.

    The Sun trine Neptune (wide at 8.3°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Sagittarius or Scorpio, the Free Spirit

    Restless and good-humoured. Feels best with a plan for the next adventure and the freedom to change it.

    For a birth before 11:12 a.m., his Moon was in Scorpio.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Pisces, the Tender Heart

    Gentle, devoted and full of feeling. Wants a love with a little magic in it. Words with charm in them: he had an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people liked listening to him.

    Mercury conjunction Venus (close at 1.6°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Pisces, the Poet

    Thinks in pictures and feelings. Understands people without needing many words.

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist

    Quietly powerful. Works in private, holds nothing back, and does not give up. Stamina and willpower: he kept going long after others stopped, and he did his best work under pressure.

    Mars trine Pluto (exact at 0.0°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    In his chart, his mind, his heart and his independence (Mercury, Venus and Uranus) gather in Pisces, and that part of life drew his attention first. No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through took deliberate effort.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Ravi Shankar was born four days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 86% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Wednesday, seventeen days after the March equinox.

  • Mars retrograde

    Mars was retrograde all the day Ravi Shankar was born, as it was on 78 days of 1920. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Ravi Shankar, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2007 and 2008, at 87: his third Saturn return, after the second in 1978. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Aries

You and Ravi Shankar

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Ravi Shankar’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is Ravi Shankar’s zodiac sign?

Aries. Ravi Shankar was born on April 7, 1920, with the Sun in Aries, the Pioneer. Direct, brave and impatient with waiting. At his best with a fresh start and a door nobody has opened yet.

What is Ravi Shankar’s Moon sign?

Sagittarius or Scorpio. The Moon moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius at 11:12 a.m. that day, local time: in Scorpio for a birth before then, in Sagittarius for one after.

What is Ravi Shankar’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on April 7, 1920. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Ravi Shankar’s Venus sign?

Pisces, the Tender Heart. Gentle, devoted and full of feeling. Wants a love with a little magic in it.

How does your chart compare with Ravi Shankar’s?

Set your chart beside Ravi Shankar’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Ravi Shankar’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Markgoff2972, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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