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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Hiroshi
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.
How common is the name Hiroshi in the U.S.?
#10063
US rank in 2025
~1,565
Americans share it since 1912
1924
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Hiroshi falls under that line for 1960. Its peak came in 1924, and 1,565 Americans have carried it since 1912.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hiroshi’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on H (8) and closes on I (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hiroshi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Hiroshi apart
The Nobel Prize in Physics came in 2014, when Hiroshi Amano was 54.
Study took Hiroshi Amano to Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu Nishi High School and Hamamatsu City Shijimizuka Junior High School.
On Wikipedia the categories read Academic staff of Nagoya University, Scientists from Hamamatsu and Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu Nishi High School, Hamamatsu City Shijimizuka Junior High School and Nagoya University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2014), Order of Culture (2014) and Person of Cultural Merit (2014)
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 69
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. Working below.
Where Hiroshi sits
Six lines
Hiroshi’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Hiroshi Amano
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamamatsu on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Hamamatsu that night
Computed for 34.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hamamatsu at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 2.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Hamamatsu sits at 34.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 64% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
How unusual Hiroshi's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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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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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarssextileUranus1.2° to 1.7° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.7° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°44′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 28°23′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 29°15′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.2°
Hiroshi’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Hiroshi’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.3°
More people like Hiroshi
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- Yoshitomo NaraJapanese artist
- Kenji KasaharaJapanese businessman
- Kazuo IshiguroBritish novelist (born 1954)
- Michael RamirezAmerican cartoonist
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on September 11
- Taraji P. Henson1970
- Julia Nickson-Soul1958
- Mike Comrie1980
- Charles Kelley1981
- Phillip Alford1948
- Harry Connick Jr.1967
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- Ethan DolanAmerican comedian
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- Malia Obamadaughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
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Other Tidal Seekers
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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
Computed from September 11, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hiroshi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11443689 (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 Alain Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hiroshi Amano at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hiroshi Amano.
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.
- 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 is Hiroshi Amano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Hiroshi Amano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
