Amitabh Bachchan's Birth Chart

Combust Mars leads a ranking that weighs the kind of feature, then its scarcity among 1940s births. Retrograde Mercury follows; the Moon's fall in Scorpio comes third and is the only one the pre-dawn time takes away, since its Moon was still in Libra. Combust Mercury holds at every recorded time but not all day: for some hours before 11:08 AM the planet was cazimi, too close to the Sun to count as combust.

AstroSage gives 4:00 PM, credited to Kundli Sangraha, a horoscope compilation by Bhat. From September 1942 India ran its clocks an hour ahead of standard time for the war, so Allahabad (now Prayagraj) kept UTC+6:30, the clock used here. AstroSage casts the hour at UTC+5:30 instead, 5:00 PM on that day's wall clocks; which clock the compilation meant is not known.

Astrotheme lists 3:00 PM, entered by Sy Scholfield and filed as "Conflicting/unverified"; Astro-Charts shows 3:30 AM, also credited to Scholfield and flagged as conflicting. Neither names a document, and no time is tied to a birth register or the family. This page uses 4:00 PM war time, the only one tied to a named compilation.

Aquarius rose from 2:34 PM to 4:15 PM, leaving the adopted hour 16 minutes short of Pisces, the standard-time reading's sign. 3:00 PM keeps Aquarius but moves the Moon, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune a house each. The pre-dawn 3:30 AM puts Leo up, 4 minutes from Virgo, shifts all ten planets and has a Libra Moon, which reached Scorpio only at 10:16 AM.

With the Sun still 33°35′ high at the adopted hour, this is a day chart in the sect scheme, as are the other afternoon readings, leaving Mars, the night malefic, out of sect. Only the pre-dawn time gives a night chart with Mars in sect.

Moving swiftly, 1°46′ from the Sun, Mars is combust (about one chart in 13 among 1940s births) and in detriment (about one chart in 7), scoring 19 of 100. Slow, retrograde Mercury, combust at 0°43′ (about one chart in 4), scores 15.

Exalted in Cancer (about one chart in 9) and in sect, Jupiter tops the table at 92. Both lights are in fall, the Sun in Libra (about one chart in 12) and, in the afternoon, the Moon in Scorpio (about one chart in 12). Of the Libra planets only Venus, ruler of the sign, has essential dignity.

Mercury, retrograde at 1°10′ a day (about one chart in 5), led the Sun before dawn and trailed it at each afternoon time. Run the clock back and Jupiter changes house first, into the 6th house within 5 minutes. Pluto, 23°12′ north, comes nearest the 23°26′ limit; nothing is out of bounds.

Sun–Mercury, 0°43′, is the closest contact, Mars sitting 1°03′ from Mercury and 1°46′ from the Sun; these conjunctions and Saturn's trines to the trio hold all day. Uranus opposes the Midheaven only from 3:25 PM to 4:22 PM, a window no rival time enters.

Every planet lies within 149°10′ at the adopted hour, a bowl, held all day, that Marc Edmund Jones linked to a self-contained outlook (about one chart in 4). Air holds seven planets in the afternoon charts, and the pre-dawn Libra Moon adds one; earth holds none (about one chart in 7), narrowly: Neptune sat 0°16′ past the Virgo border. Cardinal signs lead the modes.

John Lennon's chart is nearest, its Sun at almost the same degree; A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's adds a close Mercury, and Kamala Harris and Lata Mangeshkar share the Sun's sign, none of it resting on the disputed hour.

Lahiri's ayanamsa of 23°03′ moves the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune back into Kanya (Virgo) and Saturn and Uranus into Vrishabha (Taurus). Jyotish counts Mercury exalted in Kanya, Venus debilitated there and Jupiter exalted in Karka. At the adopted hour the lagna is Kumbha (Aquarius), as at AstroSage's reading; a birth 7 minutes earlier gives Makara, as 3:00 PM does; the pre-dawn time gives Simha.

Saturn's first return was one clean pass, on June 18, 1972; the second took three passes, ending April 20, 2002. Jupiter's 7th return opened on the birthday itself, October 11, 2025, as seven circuits take almost exactly 83 years.

With only the city on record, every chart is cast for 25°26′ N, 81°50′ E, central Allahabad, with precise astronomical calculations and Placidus houses; rates come from computer-generated 1940s births.