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Kaoru Kobayashi

Kaoru Kobayashi (born September 4, 1951, Kyoto, Japan), aged 75, is a Japanese actor.

Kaoru Kobayashi’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Kaoru Kobayashi’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Kaoru in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~251

Americans share it since 1914

1921

its peak year

US records hold Kaoru from 1914 onward, though not for 1951 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1921 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kaoru’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on K (2) 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

Kaoru’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 3 · 4 · 6

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 1951, 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 Kaoru apart

On the family side, Kaoru Kobayashi was married Kumi Nakamura.

Wikipedia's editors put Kaoru Kobayashi under Male actors from Kyoto and Japanese racehorse owners and breeders.

Beyoncé (1981) and Liz Greene (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Kaoru, according to the stars

Core essence

Kaoru 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 Kaoru is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Kaoru 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 Kaoru 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 Kaoru wants to be loved

Kaoru 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 Kaoru and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Kaoru creates

How Kaoru makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kaoru creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Kaoru is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Kaoru is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Kaoru 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 Kaoru's birth date. Working below.

Where Kaoru sits

Six lines

Kaoru’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Kaoru

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kaoru

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Kaoru

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kaoru

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Kaoru

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kaoru

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kaoru Kobayashi

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kyoto on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Kaoru’s birth-night reference starSheliakblue · LyraSheliak, in Lyra. A blue star, 87.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sheliak →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 19.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Kyoto that night

Computed for 35.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Sheliak stood nearest the zenith over Kyoto at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.9° above the horizon in Lyra.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 35.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Kyoto at all: they sit past the −55.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.

How unusual Kaoru's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet

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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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Kaoru Kobayashi's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 4, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Kaoru Kobayashi was born on September 4, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Kaoru Kobayashi's birth date, September 4, 1951, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Kaoru’s chart

Kaoru’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.7° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun in Virgo · 10°45′☉10°Moon in Libra · 11°11′☽11°Mercury in Virgo · 3°55′ · retrograde☿℞3°Venus in Virgo · 10°01′ · retrograde♀℞10°Mars in Leo · 10°39′♂10°Jupiter in Aries · 12°40′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Libra · 2°23′♄2°Uranus in Cancer · 13°03′♅13°Neptune in Libra · 17°53′♆17°Pluto in Leo · 20°10′♇20°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Kaoru’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus0.3° to 0.5° orb

    Kaoru’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter1.7° to 2.4° orb

    Kaoru’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsextileUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.7° to 3.4° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 7.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 6.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Kaoru’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 26°48′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 9°24′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 21°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°16′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 6°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Venus 0.6°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.0°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.2°

Kaoru’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Kaoru’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.9°

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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs

Kaoru’s cards

Computed from September 4, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kaoru’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5359721 (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.

The same Kaoru Kobayashi 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 Kaoru Kobayashi.

Quick answers about Kaoru Kobayashi’s chart

How old is Kaoru Kobayashi?
Kaoru Kobayashi is 75 years old, born September 4, 1951 in Kyoto, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Kaoru Kobayashi?
Kaoru Kobayashi is a Virgo: born September 4, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Kaoru Kobayashi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 4, 1951 birth.
How tall is Kaoru Kobayashi?
Kaoru Kobayashi is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Kaoru Kobayashi's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Kaoru Kobayashi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kaoru Kobayashi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kaoru Kobayashi's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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