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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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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.

What Heisuke’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

3

Soul Urge · being heard

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on H (8) and closes on E (5).

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

Heisuke’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Heisuke apart

Hugh Hefner (1926) and Elle Fanning (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Heisuke sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Heisuke

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Heisuke

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Heisuke

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Heisuke

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Heisuke

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Heisuke

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Heisuke’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 80.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 31.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Yamaguchi that night

Computed for 34.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Yamaguchi at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

From 34.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −55.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Yamaguchi on any night.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon down and 54% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Heisuke's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Uranus · No Air planets

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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Aries Sun

Impatient, 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.

What Aries means →

Metal Goat

Kind, and quietly tough.

Heisuke Hironaka was born on April 9, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Heisuke Hironaka's birth date, April 9, 1931, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Heisuke’s chart

Heisuke’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.4° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.1° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.8° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Aries · 18°18′☉18°Moon in Capricorn · 9°59′☽9°Mercury in Taurus · 7°30′☿7°Venus in Pisces · 9°50′♀9°Mars in Leo · 2°37′♂2°Jupiter in Cancer · 12°07′♃12°Saturn in Capricorn · 22°48′♄22°Uranus in Aries · 15°30′♅15°Neptune in Virgo · 3°20′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Cancer · 18°42′♇18°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableUranussquarePluto3.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.0° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.5° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.9° to 7.1° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 16°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 6°42′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 9°59′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°18′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Heisuke’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Heisuke’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Heisuke’s cards

Computed from April 9, 1931. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Heisuke’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183373 (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 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Heisuke Hironaka.

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.
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 was Heisuke Hironaka's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Heisuke Hironaka's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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