Emraan Hashmi

Emraan Hashmi is an actor and a producer, and the record says nothing else about him, so this is a date, a place and a trade: Mumbai, 1979, Hindi cinema.

He was born on 24 March 1979 with six of his ten planets retrograde. That is a very high count and the most unusual thing in the chart. A retrograde planet works inward, doing its business in an order not visible from outside, and six of them describes somebody whose whole apparatus runs against the direction of travel: decisions arriving already made, processes never on display, and a career that looks from outside like it is happening to him rather than being driven.

The Sun sits conjunct Mercury under three fifths of a degree, both on the first degrees of Aries, and both retrograde. Identity and speech fused at the very opening of the zodiac, running backwards. Aries goes first and asks afterwards; reversed, it goes first and then thinks about it privately, which in a career of a great many films and very few interviews is a recognisable pattern.

His Moon is in Aquarius, which handles feeling by standing back from it, and sits awkwardly against Saturn. Mars makes an awkward angle to Pluto by about a degree and a hard one to Neptune, so drive is caught between force and fog. There are no aspect patterns at all, so nothing in this chart is held in a larger structure and the difficulties stand on their own. An actor who moved into producing has at least found somewhere to put the organising.

There is one planet in earth, which with six retrogrades leaves a chart that is mobile, private and short of ballast.

His Jupiter return came in June 2026, at forty seven. On a chart this heavily reversed, a year of expansion is unlikely to announce itself, and the honest reading is that whatever it opened will be visible some time after it has happened.