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Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki (born January 5, 1941, Bunkyō-ku, Japan), aged 85, is a Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka. Miyazaki is best known for The Boy and the Heron, The Wind Rises and Panda! Go, Panda!. Miyazaki's honours include Golden Bear, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year.

Hayao Miyazaki’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

What Hayao’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

1

Soul Urge · independence

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on H (8) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Hayao’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Hayao apart

What keeps Hayao Miyazaki in print: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Boy and the Heron and Spirited Away.

The classrooms behind this chart: Toyotama High School, Tokyo and Suginami Ward Omiya Junior High School.

The working life starts in 1963, at 22.

On the family side, Hayao Miyazaki was born to Katsuji Miyazaki, married Akemi Ōta and raised 2 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Hayao Miyazaki: Anime people from Tokyo, Japanese character designers and Environmental writers.

Umberto Eco (1932) and Bradley Cooper (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Boy and the Heron and Spirited Away
Educated at
Toyotama High School, Tokyo, Suginami Ward Omiya Junior High School and Gakushuin University
Awards
Golden Bear (2002), Nebula Award for Best Script (2006) and Asahi Prize (2001)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Non-European Film and Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Working from
1963
Citizenship
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Wikipedia editions
110

What the chart says

Hayao, according to the stars

Core essence

Hayao is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Hayao is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Hayao runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Hayao needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Hayao wants to be loved

Hayao wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Hayao and watch them fall for you again.

How Hayao creates

How Hayao makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hayao creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Hayao is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Hayao is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Computed from Hayao's birth date. Working below.

Where Hayao sits

Six lines

Hayao’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Hayao

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hayao

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Hayao

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hayao

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Hayao

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hayao

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hayao Miyazaki

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bunkyō-ku on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Hayao’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 85.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 75.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bunkyō-ku that night

Computed for 35.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bunkyō-ku was Menkib, in Perseus, 85.4° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

From 35.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bunkyō-ku on any night.

Sun 51° below the horizon, Moon up and 50% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Bunkyō-ku, Japan
Lives in
Tokorozawa

Wikidata records Tokorozawa as Hayao Miyazaki's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hayao Miyazaki: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Hayao's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · Only two elements · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Hayao Miyazaki's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Hayao Miyazaki's birth date, January 5, 1941, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Hayao’s chart

Hayao’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.7° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 14°24′☉14°Moon in Aries · 9°37′☽9°Mercury in Capricorn · 10°37′☿10°Venus in Sagittarius · 19°03′♀19°Mars in Sagittarius · 0°12′♂0°Jupiter in Taurus · 5°43′♃5°Saturn in Taurus · 7°55′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Taurus · 22°25′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Virgo · 27°41′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 3°36′ · retrograde♇℞3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.1° orb

    Hayao’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.9° to 3.5° orb

    Hayao’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.1° orb

    Hayao’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune2.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.2° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.3° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.

Hayao’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 29°25′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°51′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 20°43′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 28°31′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.8°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.7°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.7°

Hayao’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Hayao’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.8°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°

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Hayao’s cards

Computed from January 5, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hayao’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55400 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Natasha Baucas at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdnatasha/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hayao Miyazaki at Wikipedia, ghibli.jp, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Quick answers about Hayao Miyazaki’s chart

How old is Hayao Miyazaki?
Hayao Miyazaki is 85 years old, born January 5, 1941 in Bunkyō-ku, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Hayao Miyazaki?
Hayao Miyazaki is a Capricorn: born January 5, 1941, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Hayao Miyazaki's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1941 birth.
What is Hayao Miyazaki's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Hayao Miyazaki's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hayao Miyazaki's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hayao Miyazaki's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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