Akio Morita
Akio Morita (born January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Japan; died 1999), was a Japanese businessman. Morita's honours include Commander of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Akio Morita’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Akio Morita’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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Akio’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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What the chart says
Akio, according to the stars
Core essence
Akio is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Akio is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Akio wants to be loved
Akio wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Akio, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Akio creates
How Akio makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Akio creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Akio is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Akio is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Akio slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Akio's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Akio sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Akio Morita's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 26, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Akio Morita was born on January 26, 1921, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Akio Morita's birth date, January 26, 1921, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Akio’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Akio Morita's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Akio Morita combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Akio’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Akio Morita, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.4° orb
Akio’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.6° to 2.4° orb
Akio’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
Akio’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.1° to 4.2° orb
Akio’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableUranustrinePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Akio’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.5° to 5.8° orb
Akio’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 6.8° orb
Akio’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
Akio’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.5° orb
Akio’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 3.0° to 17.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Akio’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 6°40′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Akio may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 26°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Akio feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°56′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Akio is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 3°46′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Akio is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Akio is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.0°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Akio’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Akio is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Akio’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Akio Morita, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Akio’s cards
Every card is computed from January 26, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Akio Morita, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Akio’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310845, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by プレジデント社 撮影者不明, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Akio Morita at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Akio Morita’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Akio Morita?
- Akio Morita was an Aquarius: born January 26, 1921, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was Akio Morita's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 26, 1921 birth.
- What time was Akio Morita born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Akio Morita's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 26, 1921 birth date.
- What was Akio Morita's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 26, 1921 birth date.
- Where was Akio Morita's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Akio Morita's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
