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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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.
Hayao’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Hayao sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. 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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Hayao Miyazaki's birth date, January 5, 1941, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Hayao’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hayao Miyazaki's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air and Water.
- Hayao Miyazaki combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Hayao’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hayao Miyazaki, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Aries 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.
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
Hayao’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.2° orb
Hayao’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto3.1° to 3.7° orb
Hayao’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.1° orb
Hayao’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.1° to 5.7° orb
Hayao’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.3° orb
Hayao’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° orb
Hayao’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 29°25′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Hayao is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°51′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Hayao is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 20°43′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Hayao is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 28°31′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Hayao needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Hayao carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- 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°
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°).
Hayao’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Hayao is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Hayao’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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hayao Miyazaki, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Hayao’s cards
Every card is computed from January 5, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Hayao Miyazaki, 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
Hayao’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55400, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Hayao Miyazaki 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 is Hayao Miyazaki's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 5, 1941 birth date.
- What is Hayao Miyazaki's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 5, 1941 birth date.
- 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.
