Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki (born January 30, 1929, Chiran, Japan; died 2021), was a Japanese engineer. Akasaki's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Culture and IEEE Fellow.
Isamu Akasaki’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Isamu
Isamu Akasaki’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Isamu in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~562
Americans share it since 1912
1922
its peak year
The SSA recorded 14 American boys named Isamu in 1929: 2,140th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Isamu’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on I (9) and closes on U (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Isamu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets Isamu apart
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882) and Felipe VI of Spain (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Isamu, according to the stars
Core essence
Isamu is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Isamu is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Isamu cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Isamu needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Isamu wants to be loved
Isamu 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 Isamu, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Isamu creates
How Isamu makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Isamu creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Isamu is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Isamu is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Isamu scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Isamu's birth date. Working below.
Where Isamu sits
Six lines
Isamu’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Isamu Akasaki
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chiran 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 Chiran that night
Computed for 31.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chiran at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Chiran sits at 31.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −58.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chiran on any night.
The Moon, 70% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Isamu's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Venus · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Isamu Akasaki's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Isamu Akasaki was born on January 30, 1929, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Isamu Akasaki's birth date, January 30, 1929, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Isamu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Isamu Akasaki's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Isamu Akasaki 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.
Isamu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Libra 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
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Isamu’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb
Isamu’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.4° to 2.7° orb
Isamu’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurytrineMars3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.8° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.9° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Isamu’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°32′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 24°57′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 14°10′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 24°39′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.4°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Eros square Pluto 2.7°
Isamu’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury
Configurations in Isamu’s chart
Grand trine · Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Venus · Mars, Saturn, VenusAn 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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
More people like Isamu
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- Serge Haroche1944
- James Watson1928
- Sheldon Glashow1932
Born in Japan
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More charts like Isamu’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Charlie DayAmerican actor, writer and producer (born 1976)
- Jeff DyeAmerican stand-up comedian
- Kristen DouteAmerican actress
Born in Dragon years
- Dominic MonaghanGerman-born British actor
- Chuck NorrisAmerican martial artist and action actor
- Joe ManganielloAmerican actor
Also born on January 30
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt1882
- Felipe VI of Spain1968
- Christian Bale1974
- Tyla2002
- Kid Cudi1984
- Dick Cheney1941
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Danny DeVitoAmerican actor, comedian, director and producer
- Jared LetoAmerican actor, singer, musician and songwriter
- Christina RicciAmerican actress
Other Aquarius Dragon charts
- VitinhaPortuguese footballer (born 2000)
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- Isaiah LandAmerican football player (born 2000)
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Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
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- Thomas RhettAmerican country singer
- Dawn RichardAmerican singer (born 1983)
- Donny OsmondAmerican singer, dancer, actor, television host
Famous people with Life Path 7
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Isamu’s cards
Computed from January 30, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Isamu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1673706 (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 大臣官房人事課, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Isamu Akasaki at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Isamu Akasaki.
Quick answers about Isamu Akasaki’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Isamu Akasaki?
- Isamu Akasaki was an Aquarius: born January 30, 1929, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Isamu Akasaki's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1929 birth.
- What was Isamu Akasaki's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Isamu Akasaki's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Isamu Akasaki's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Isamu Akasaki's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
