Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa (born August 20, 1936, Tokyo, Japan; died 2026), was a Japanese scientist (1936–). Shirakawa's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit.
Hideki Shirakawa’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Hideki Shirakawa’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
Hideki’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Hideki, according to the stars
Core essence
Hideki is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Hideki is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Hideki wants to be loved
Hideki wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Hideki and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Hideki creates
How Hideki 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. Hideki 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: Hideki is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Hideki is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Hideki 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 Hideki's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Hideki Shirakawa in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Hideki Shirakawa's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Hideki Shirakawa was born on August 20, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Hideki Shirakawa's birth date, August 20, 1936, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Hideki’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hideki Shirakawa's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hideki Shirakawa combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Hideki’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hideki Shirakawa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.4° to 1.9° orb
Hideki’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineUranus0.9° to 2.2° orb
Hideki’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.1° orb
Hideki’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.0° to 4.2° orb
Hideki’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssquareUranus3.0° to 3.6° orb
Hideki’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 4.6° orb
Hideki’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb
Hideki’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 5.6° orb
Hideki’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
Hideki’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° orb
Hideki’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.2° orb
Hideki’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Hideki’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 22°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Hideki turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°39′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Hideki is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 3°44′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Hideki is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°13′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Hideki is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 24°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Hideki that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 square Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.9°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.8°
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°).
Hideki’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Hideki is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Hideki’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 Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hideki Shirakawa, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Hideki’s cards
Every card is computed from August 20, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Hideki Shirakawa, 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
Hideki’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110916, 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 Hideki Shirakawa 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 Hideki Shirakawa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hideki Shirakawa?
- Hideki Shirakawa was a Leo: born August 20, 1936, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1936 birth.
- What time was Hideki Shirakawa 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 Hideki Shirakawa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the August 20, 1936 birth date.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 20, 1936 birth date.
- Where was Hideki Shirakawa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
