Four planets at full strength. Almost nobody gets that.
Read as a lens, not a verdict, it tracks something he's said about his own game for years: he's the "unhurried" one — the batter who looks like he has more time than the bowler.
Snubbed. Record-breaker. Still going.
Nineteen years of him, and which planet was holding the pen for each stretch.
FILE PHOTO · DEC 2010Left out of the World Cup, in his own city
- India won the 2011 World Cup at Wankhede Stadium — Rohit Sharma's home ground — and he wasn't in the squad.
- He's called it the saddest moment of his career: the final happening in his own backyard, without him.
FILE PHOTO · 2015 ODIMoved to open. Broke the sport.
- Promoted to open the batting in 2013 after six years as an inconsistent middle-order finisher — and immediately started scoring differently.
- 13 November 2014, Eden Gardens: 264 off 173 balls against Sri Lanka, still the biggest individual score ODI cricket has ever seen. He now owns three of the format's handful of double centuries.
BARBADOS · 29 JUN 2024Full captaincy, then a World Cup with his name on it
- Took over India's T20I captaincy in November 2021, then ODI and Test captaincy in February 2022 — all three formats, right as a new mahadasha began.
- Led India to the T20 World Cup title in Barbados on 29 June 2024, then retired from T20Is on the spot, on top.
FILE PHOTO · 2018 Asia CupDropped, retired, back at Lord's
- Left himself out of the deciding Sydney Test in January 2025 after a poor run, retired from Tests that May, then handed the ODI captaincy to Shubman Gill in October 2025.
- Still won the 2025 Champions Trophy as ODI captain along the way, received the Padma Shri in 2026, and — after a rough Edgbaston knock drew "retire gracefully" calls — answered with 138 off 110 at Lord's weeks later, still chasing 2027.
The closest thing he's had to drama
No affairs, no crime, no boycott campaigns — his "messy bits" are mostly just a very public argument about when a great career should end. What the chart says about the pattern, not the gossip.
In January 2025, with the bat gone quiet through the Border-Gavaskar series, Rohit became the first Indian captain to voluntarily leave himself out of a Test XI — the series decider in Sydney.
He said on air it "was not a retirement decision." Four months later, in May 2025, he retired from Test cricket anyway, ahead of the tour of England.
He was moving into a fresh sub-period inside his strong Jupiter mahadasha. Jupiter periods are read as ones where you get to choose the ending rather than have it chosen for you.
A chart with this much dignity doesn't usually get dragged out — it walks out on its own clock. That tracks with how this one played out.
In October 2025, the BCCI named Shubman Gill India's ODI captain — a generational handover aimed squarely at the 2027 World Cup. Rohit stayed in the playing XI, no drama, no farewell tour.
Jupiter is the planet of expansion and generosity, not territory. Handing over a title while staying useful is a very Jupiter way to manage a succession — making room rather than being pushed out of it.
A laboured 11 off 21 balls in the first ODI of the 2026 England tour drew fierce fan backlash and calls to hand his opening slot to Yashasvi Jaiswal for good. Reports said selectors had signalled his future beyond the tour wasn't part of their planning.
He pushed back publicly on the retirement talk. Weeks later, at the third ODI at Lord's, he made 138 off 110 balls and said his sights are still on the 2027 World Cup.
This whole stretch sits inside his current Jupiter–Mercury sub-period (Dec 2025–Mar 2028) — computed, not guessed. Mercury moves fast; a bad month and a brilliant one back to back is exactly its signature.
Left out once. Won it twice anyway.
🚫 → 🏆 The 2011 snub, answered in 2024 and 2025
- Watched the 2011 World Cup final from outside the squad, at his own home ground.
- Thirteen years later he lifted the 2024 T20 World Cup as captain — then the 2025 Champions Trophy as ODI captain too.
- The only Indian captain to close out an ICC white-ball trophy drought that had run since 2013 with two titles inside eighteen months.
🔭 The chart bit: the whole arc runs from the tail of Rahu (the snub) into the strength of Jupiter (both trophies). Chaos handing off to expansion.
🐌 → ⚡ The finisher nobody could place, becomes the best opener alive
- Six years in the middle order, dropped and recalled repeatedly, tagged inconsistent by pretty much every pundit in the country.
- Moved to open the innings in 2013. Inside eighteen months he had two ODI double centuries; inside a decade, three — a record nobody else in the format's history has more than one of.
- Also the only batter with five centuries in a single World Cup (2019).
🔭 The chart bit: his exalted Moon in Taurus, sharing the sign with Mars — instinct and force in the same room. Reads as timing that looks unhurried right up until the ball is gone.
Four planets. Four receipts.
☉ARIESEXALTED
The captain's placement
- The Sun runs authority, status and the willingness to be the one everyone looks at when it matters.
- His sits in Aries — the sign it's exalted in, sharing the sign with Mercury.
- He's now captained India across white-ball and red-ball cricket, and led two of the last three ICC trophies India has actually won.
☾TAURUSEXALTED
The unhurried one
- The Moon runs instinct, timing and how a mind actually feels under pressure — not how it performs for the cameras.
- His is exalted in Taurus, and sits in Rohini — a nakshatra literally ruled by the Moon, so it's strong twice over.
- Which tracks: commentators have called his batting "lazy elegance" for fifteen years. Textbook Taurus Moon — nothing rushed, plenty landing anyway.
♀PISCESEXALTED
The stillness under the spotlight
- Venus runs charm, comfort and how easily fame sits on someone.
- His is exalted in Pisces, shared with Jupiter and Rahu — a rare three-planet cluster in one sign.
- He's one of the most-watched cricketers alive and one of the least dramatic about it — no scandal arc, no manufactured feud, married the same person who managed his early career.
♃PISCESOWN SIGN
The one running his life right now
- Jupiter runs growth, judgement and — when it's strong — a sense of things simply expanding rather than being fought for.
- His sits in Pisces, a sign Jupiter actually owns. Full strength, no compromise.
- It's been his mahadasha since 16 April 2021 and runs to 2037 — which means the captaincy, both World titles, the Padma Shri and the current comeback have all happened under it.
Beyond the cricket
Champion before he was famous
Part of India's squad that won the very first T20 World Cup in 2007, months after his ODI debut.
Early Rahu — sudden, unasked-for stardom.Married his own manager
Married Ritika Sajdeh, who managed his early sponsorships and career, in December 2015. Still together, low-drama, a decade on.
Exalted Venus in Pisces — comfort, not chaos.Five MI titles, tied for most ever
Captained Mumbai Indians to five IPL titles (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020) — tied with MS Dhoni for the most by any captain in the league's history.
Sun exalted — the captain's placement, on repeat.Padma Shri, 2026
Conferred by President Droupadi Murmu for his contribution to Indian cricket — still adding to the cabinet at 39.
Jupiter mahadasha, still running.The chart, raw
His janam kundli, computed with the same Swiss Ephemeris / Lahiri-ayanamsa engine behind every AxtroShastra report. Signs and nakshatras only — no birth time has ever been published for him, so there's no lagna and no houses here. See Lesson 06 for why that's not a gap we're guessing around.
Three planets sit together in Pisces alone — Jupiter, Venus and Rahu. Stack that against a Sun-Mercury pair in Aries and a Moon-Mars pair in Taurus, and nine planets end up occupying just five signs. A clustered, top-heavy chart, and an unusually strong one.
Astrology, but make it make sense
Zero background needed. Read this once and you can decode the birth chart above yourself — no astrologer required.
What a birth chart even is
A kundli — birth chart, janam kundli, whatever your family calls it — is a photo of the sky from the exact place and moment someone was born. Where every planet was sitting, frozen.
Vedic astrology reads that photo as the raw material a person was handed, not a script for their life.
The planets, and what each one does
Nine of them. Think of them as nine departments, each running one part of a life.
| Planet | Runs | Where his is |
|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | authority, ego, leadership | Aries ★ exalted |
| ☾ Moon | instinct, timing, gut feel | Taurus ★ exalted |
| ♂ Mars | drive, aggression, the body | Taurus |
| ☿ Mercury | speech, reflexes, adaptability | Aries |
| ♃ Jupiter | growth, luck, expansion | Pisces ★ own sign |
| ♀ Venus | charm, comfort, being liked | Pisces ★ exalted |
| ♄ Saturn | patience, grind, delays | Scorpio retrograde |
| ☊ Rahu | obsession, sudden fame, chaos | Pisces retrograde |
| ☋ Ketu | letting go, detachment | Virgo retrograde |
Why "which sign" actually matters
Every planet has signs where it's comfortable and signs where it struggles. Same planet, wildly different output.
- Exalted — its single best possible sign. As strong as that planet ever gets.
- Own sign — home ground. Comfortable, reliable, does its job without a fight.
- Everywhere else — a guest. Functional, not special, which is where most planets in most charts sit.
Dashas — why timing is the whole game
Your planets don't all act at once. They take turns running your life, for years at a stretch, in a fixed order and for fixed lengths set by where the Moon sat at birth. Vedic astrology calls a planet's turn a dasha.
Moon 1987–96 · Mars 1996–2003 · Rahu 2003–21 · Jupiter 2021–2037 (current) · Saturn from 2037
Everything from the 2011 World Cup snub to the 264 record happened under Rahu — the chaos planet. Everything since the full captaincy handover in 2022 has run under Jupiter — his single strongest placement.
Sub-periods — the chapters inside the chapter
A sixteen-year mahadasha is too blunt to be useful on its own, so it splits into shorter stretches, each handed to a different planet. That's where the year-to-year story actually lives.
What we genuinely can't tell you
Here's where most celebrity astrology sites quietly cheat, and we won't.
A chart has two halves. Which sign each planet is in — that only needs the date, so everything above is solid, and we double-checked it holds across his entire birth day. And the houses, which need the exact minute of birth.
So — is Rohit Sharma manglik?
One of the most-searched questions about him, and the honest answer is that nobody can give it to you straight.
"Manglik" depends on which house Mars sits in — and houses need the birth time. Without it, this genuinely cannot be answered, for him or for compatibility checks with anyone else's kundli.
Charts like his
What people ask about his kundli
What is Rohit Sharma's birth time and birth chart?
No verified birth time has ever been published for him, so this page sticks to what a date alone settles — his zodiac signs, nakshatra and dasha eras — and skips houses and lagna entirely. His full birth chart, signs-only, is above.
What is his zodiac sign and nakshatra?
His Moon — the sign Vedic astrology uses as the "rashi" — sits in Taurus, exalted, in the Rohini nakshatra. His Sun sits in Aries, also exalted. Every placement here is computed from his birth date, not copied from another site.
Is Rohit Sharma manglik?
Unanswerable honestly without a birth time. His Mars sits in Taurus, but whether that falls in a manglik house needs the exact hour of birth, which has never been published. See Lesson 07 above.
What does his current dasha say about 2026 and 2027?
He's in a Jupiter–Mercury sub-period from December 2025 to March 2028 — Jupiter is his strongest, most expansive placement, with quick-moving Mercury layered inside it. Astrologers would read that as a stretch built for a late push rather than a fade, which lines up with his own stated target of playing the 2027 World Cup. That's a reading, not a prediction.