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Stephen Hawking's Vedic Kundali

Theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Born 8 January 1942, Oxford, United Kingdom·Birth time unknown
Moon rashi
Simha or Kanya
Janma nakshatra
Purva Phalguni or Uttara Phalguni
Lagna
needs a birth time
Sun rashi
Dhanu (Sagittarius)
Birth time
Not known

Reading this kundali

Birth time
No birth time is known; everything below is what the date alone settles.
Same all day on the birth date
  • Every planet keeps its rashi all day
  • Yogas: Kemadruma Yoga, Pasha Yoga
Changes with the birth time
  • Moon in Purva Phalguni until 2:10 AM, then Uttara Phalguni
  • Moon rashi Simha until 8:14 AM, then Kanya
  • The lagna changes about every two hours; see the table by hour below

Birth details and sources

Born
8 January 1942, time unknown
Place
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Coordinates
51.7519, -1.2578
Birth time
Birth time unknown date known, time unknown
How the time stands
No birth time could be traced to a birth record, a statement by Hawking or his family, a news report or a biography; the only time found, 2:29 AM, comes from astrology websites that name no record and flag it as dirty data or of questionable accuracy.
About the clock
The zone history for Europe/London shows Britain on summer time from 25 February 1940 and kept on it through the winters of the war, with double summer time only from 4 May to 10 August 1941 and again from 5 April 1942, so Oxford clocks on 8 January 1942 read UTC+1, not GMT.
Sources
Other times printed elsewhere
  • 02:29 · AstroSage gives 02:29:00 in Oxford with time zone 0.0 and marks both its information source and its rating as dirty data; Astrotheme repeats 2:29 AM from AstroSage, rated C, tracing it to an untitled collection called "765 Notable Horoscopes" that could not be identified; no register, family statement, interview or biography behind it was found.

Panchang on the day Stephen Hawking was born

Weekday
Thursday
Lunar month
Magha
Tithi at sunrise
Shashthi, Krishna Paksha
Nakshatra at sunrise
Uttara Phalguni
Yoga
Shobhana
Karana
Vanija
Sunrise
9:10 AM
Sunset
5:13 PM
Purnimanta month; tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are those running at sunrise, computed for the birthplace.

Planets in Stephen Hawking's kundali

Rashis that hold at every hour of the birth date, Lahiri ayanamsa. Degrees are not shown because they move with the hour.
PlanetRashi
SunDhanu
MoonSimha → Kanya
MarsMesh
MercuryMakar
JupiterVrishabhretrograde
VenusMakar
SaturnMeshretrograde
RahuSimharetrograde
KetuKumbhretrograde

Yogas in the chart

Each of these holds all day, whatever the birth time.

Kemadruma Yoga (cancelled)
formed by: Moon
Pasha Yoga
formed by: Sun + Moon + Mars + Mercury + Jupiter + Venus + Saturn

Lagna by hour of birth

Whole-sign lagna on the clock of the birthplace; a birth time would settle it.
fromuntilLagna
12:00 AM2:08 AMKanya (Virgo)
2:08 AM5:00 AMTula (Libra)
5:00 AM7:38 AMVrishchik (Scorpio)
7:38 AM9:35 AMDhanu (Sagittarius)
9:35 AM10:50 AMMakar (Capricorn)
10:50 AM11:44 AMKumbh (Aquarius)
11:44 AM12:34 PMMeen (Pisces)
12:34 PM1:37 PMMesh (Aries)
1:37 PM3:12 PMVrishabh (Taurus)
3:12 PM5:34 PMMithun (Gemini)
5:34 PM8:22 PMKark (Cancer)
8:22 PM11:14 PMSimha (Leo)
11:14 PM12:00 midnightKanya (Virgo)

Questions people ask

What is Stephen Hawking's rashi?▾
Simha (Leo) for a birth before 8:14 am, and Kanya (Virgo) for any later hour. Rashi here means his Moon sign. On 8 January 1942 the Moon moved from Simha into Kanya at 8:14 am by Oxford clocks. Those clocks were on British wartime summer time, one hour ahead of Greenwich. Without a recorded hour, both signs stay possible.
What is Stephen Hawking's nakshatra?▾
Uttara Phalguni for nearly the whole day; only a birth before 2:10 am gives Purva Phalguni. The Moon travels through 27 star segments, and each is called a nakshatra. It entered Uttara Phalguni at 2:10 am on the wartime Oxford clock. It then stayed there until midnight, across both Simha (Leo) and Kanya (Virgo).
What is Stephen Hawking's lagna?▾
It cannot be known, because no record gives the hour he was born. The lagna, or rising sign, is the sign coming up on the eastern horizon at birth. Over Oxford that day, every one of the twelve signs rose in turn. At this northern latitude some rose fast and some slowly. Meen (Pisces) was up for only about 50 minutes. Tula (Libra) and Simha (Leo) each held for close to three hours.
Is Stephen Hawking's birth time known?▾
No; this page is built on his birth date only, and so carries grade X. Grade X means no source ties an hour of birth to any record. The biography on his official website gives 8 January 1942 in Oxford, with no hour. The MacTutor biography at the University of St Andrews gives the same date and place. A time of 2:29 am circulates on astrology sites such as AstroSage and Astrotheme. Astrotheme copied it from AstroSage. AstroSage itself marks its source as dirty data, and no record behind that time was found. So this page does not use it.
Which yoga holds in Stephen Hawking's Kundali all day?▾
Pasha Yoga, at any hour of 8 January 1942. It is one of the Nabhasa yogas, read from how the planets are spread across the signs. Pasha forms when the seven planets occupy exactly five signs. Here those are Mesh (Aries), Vrishabh (Taurus), Dhanu (Sagittarius), Makar (Capricorn), and Simha (Leo) or Kanya (Virgo) for the Moon. Classical texts mostly read this pattern as unfavourable, so this page notes it only as a layout. Mars and Saturn also share Mesh all day. For Mars that is its own sign, while for Saturn it is the weakest sign (debilitated). Whether Saturn's weakness is cancelled (Neech Bhang) depends on the hour of birth.
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Corrections: namaste@panchangbodh.com · Lahiri ayanamsa, whole-sign houses