Hiroshi Amano
Hiroshi Amano (born September 11, 1960, Hamamatsu, Japan), aged 66, is a Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics. Amano's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit.
Hiroshi Amano’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Hiroshi Amano’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~1,565
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Hiroshi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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What the chart says
Hiroshi, according to the stars
Core essence
Hiroshi notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Hiroshi is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Hiroshi wants to be loved
Hiroshi wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Hiroshi gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Hiroshi creates
How Hiroshi makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Hiroshi creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Hiroshi 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Hiroshi 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Hiroshi scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Hiroshi's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Hiroshi Amano in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Hiroshi Amano's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Hiroshi Amano was born on September 11, 1960, which falls in a Metal 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 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Hiroshi Amano's birth date, September 11, 1960, 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 Hiroshi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hiroshi Amano's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, 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.
- Hiroshi Amano combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Hiroshi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hiroshi Amano, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb
Hiroshi’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 5.4° orb
Hiroshi’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Hiroshi’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.0° to 2.2° orb
Hiroshi’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileUranus1.2° to 1.7° orb
Hiroshi’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
Hiroshi’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.7° to 4.4° orb
Hiroshi’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars2.8° to 4.0° orb
Hiroshi’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° orb
Hiroshi’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° orb
Hiroshi’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb
Hiroshi’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunsquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
Hiroshi’s core identity grinds against their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Hiroshi’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 ℞Aquarius 28°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Hiroshi making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°44′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Hiroshi is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 28°23′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Hiroshi is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 29°15′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Hiroshi is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Hiroshi guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 square Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.2°
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°).
Hiroshi’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. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Hiroshi 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 Hiroshi’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn 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 quintile Pluto 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hiroshi Amano, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Hiroshi’s cards
Every card is computed from September 11, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Hiroshi Amano, 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
Hiroshi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11443689, 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 Alain Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hiroshi Amano at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Hiroshi Amano’s chart
- How old is Hiroshi Amano?
- Hiroshi Amano is 66 years old, born September 11, 1960 in Hamamatsu, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Hiroshi Amano?
- Hiroshi Amano is a Virgo: born September 11, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Hiroshi Amano's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1960 birth.
- What time was Hiroshi Amano 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 Hiroshi Amano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the September 11, 1960 birth date.
- What is Hiroshi Amano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 11, 1960 birth date.
- Where is Hiroshi Amano's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hiroshi Amano's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
