Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Singer · Pakistan · 1948–1997

Libra 19.8° · born October 13, 1948
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

1.0° separates Mercury and Saturn from an exact sextile; at that range thinking and structure read as one mechanism. A sextile is an offer rather than a given: available when it is reached for, quiet when it is not.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Faisalabad—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 19.8° Libra — deep enough in the second decan (10°–20°) that Saturn, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 3.6° Scorpio, Venus was at 7.7° Virgo, Mars was at 27.2° Scorpio. Read together: thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that grows by reliability; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mercury and Saturn — a sextile holding at 1.0°. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, Saturn sextile Uranus at 2.1°, and Mercury trine Uranus at 3.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

What the angles build

No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, four placements stand out. The Sun in Libra at 19.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Virgo at 7.7° is in fall; Mars in Scorpio at 27.2° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 23.9° is in domicile. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements water 3, air 2, earth 2, fire 2; modalities cardinal 3, fixed 3, mutable 3. A water emphasis reads as porousness: the room is registered whole, long before it is analysed in parts. Mercury and Uranus were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 11.9° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · revision 1365600675
Wikidata: Q299073 · revision 2517676238
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1948-10-13 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Faisalabad, Pakistan · Q173985
Coordinates: 31.4180, 73.0790 · from Faisalabad
Reference instant: 1948-10-13T06:30:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.86° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Attersaab · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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