Heisuke Hironaka
Heisuke Hironaka (born April 9, 1931, Yamaguchi, Japan; died 2026), was a Japanese mathematician. Hironaka is best remembered for Hironaka decomposition. Hironaka's honours include Fields medal, Order of Culture and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Heisuke Hironaka’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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Heisuke Hironaka’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
Heisuke’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Heisuke, according to the stars
Core essence
Heisuke leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Heisuke is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Heisuke is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Heisuke needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Heisuke wants to be loved
Heisuke 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 Heisuke, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Heisuke creates
How Heisuke makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Heisuke builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Heisuke is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Heisuke is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Heisuke fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Heisuke's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Heisuke Hironaka's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 9, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Heisuke Hironaka was born on April 9, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Heisuke Hironaka's birth date, April 9, 1931, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Heisuke’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Heisuke Hironaka's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Heisuke Hironaka combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Heisuke’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Heisuke Hironaka, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Capricorn 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.
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Heisuke’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.8° to 2.8° orb
Heisuke’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
Heisuke’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 2.4° orb
Heisuke’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquarePluto3.2° orb
Heisuke’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° orb
Heisuke’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.6° to 4.7° orb
Heisuke’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.0° to 5.0° orb
Heisuke’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.1° orb
Heisuke’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareMars4.5° to 5.3° orb
Heisuke’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb
Heisuke’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.9° to 7.1° orb
Heisuke’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Heisuke’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 16°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Heisuke building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 6°42′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Heisuke is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo 9°59′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Heisuke is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°18′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Heisuke needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Heisuke is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Eros opposition Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.1°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.5°
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°).
Heisuke’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. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Heisuke is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Heisuke’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.
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.0°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Heisuke Hironaka, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Heisuke’s cards
Every card is computed from April 9, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Heisuke Hironaka, 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
Heisuke’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183373, 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 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Heisuke Hironaka 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 Heisuke Hironaka’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Heisuke Hironaka?
- Heisuke Hironaka was an Aries: born April 9, 1931, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was Heisuke Hironaka's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1931 birth.
- What time was Heisuke Hironaka 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 Heisuke Hironaka's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 9, 1931 birth date.
- What was Heisuke Hironaka's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 9, 1931 birth date.
- Where was Heisuke Hironaka's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Heisuke Hironaka's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
