Hiroshi Mikitani
Hiroshi Mikitani (born March 11, 1965, Kobe, Japan), aged 61, is a Founder of Rakuten.
Hiroshi Mikitani’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Hiroshi
Hiroshi Mikitani’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
In 1965, 6 American boys were registered Hiroshi — 3,692nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hiroshi’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on H (8) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Hiroshi apart
Rupert Murdoch (1931) and Didier Drogba (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Hiroshi, according to the stars
Core essence
Hiroshi feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Hiroshi is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Hiroshi wants to be loved
Hiroshi 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 Hiroshi, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Hiroshi creates
How Hiroshi 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. Hiroshi 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: Hiroshi is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hiroshi is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Hiroshi channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Mikitani
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kobe 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 Kobe that night
Computed for 34.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Kobe at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 9.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Kobe sits at 34.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kobe on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 59% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
How unusual Hiroshi's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Hiroshi Mikitani's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 11, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Hiroshi Mikitani was born on March 11, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Hiroshi Mikitani's birth date, March 11, 1965, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Hiroshi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hiroshi Mikitani's date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hiroshi Mikitani combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Hiroshi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Hiroshi’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Hiroshi’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.8° to 1.7° orb
Hiroshi’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunoppositionMars1.5° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune1.6° to 2.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.3° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hiroshi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°22′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°17′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 5°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 3.0°
Hiroshi’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
disposes Mercury; 6 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Neptune; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Hiroshi’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
More people like Hiroshi
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- Michael RamirezAmerican cartoonist
- Junya ItōJapanese association football player (born 1993)
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- Shinya YamanakaJapanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
- Hideki MatsuyamaJapanese professional golfer
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Fellow Pisces suns
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- Ana MenaSpanish singer-songwriter, actress and model
Born in Snake years
- Stefano PessinaItalian businessman and CEO of Walgreens
- Michael J. SaylorAmerican business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (born 1965)
- Dagmar DolbyAmerican billionaire heiress, philanthropist
Also born on March 11
- Rupert Murdoch1931
- Didier Drogba1978
- Johnny Knoxville1971
- Mark Rober1980
- Black Coffee1976
- Terrence Howard1969
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Trevor MorganAmerican actor (born 1986)
- André BerleyFrench actor
- Barry PepperCanadian actor
Other Pisces Snake charts
- Cristina Fernández de KirchnerPresident of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
- Heinrich HertzGerman physicist
- Aamir KhanIndian actor
- Mark Carney24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Timothy ZahnAmerican fantasy and science fiction novelist
- Duncan JonesBritish film director
- Mary Robinette KowalAmerican writer and puppeteer
- Joe MayhewAmerican fan artist, science fiction writer, and librarian
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- Kristian ThorstvedtNorwegian footballer (born 1999)
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Hiroshi’s cards
Computed from March 11, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hiroshi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5366748 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hiroshi Mikitani.
Quick answers about Hiroshi Mikitani’s chart
- How old is Hiroshi Mikitani?
- Hiroshi Mikitani is 61 years old, born March 11, 1965 in Kobe, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Hiroshi Mikitani?
- Hiroshi Mikitani is a Pisces: born March 11, 1965, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Hiroshi Mikitani's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1965 birth.
- What is Hiroshi Mikitani's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Hiroshi Mikitani's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Hiroshi Mikitani's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hiroshi Mikitani's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
