Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954, Nagasaki, Japan), aged 71, is a British novelist (born 1954). Ishiguro is best known for Klara and the Sun, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World. Ishiguro's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize and Order of the Rising Sun.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
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US rank in 2025
~762
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
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Kazuo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Kazuo, according to the stars
Core essence
Kazuo does not do surface. The core of Kazuo is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Kazuo is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Kazuo runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Kazuo needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Kazuo wants to be loved
Kazuo wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kazuo even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Kazuo creates
How Kazuo makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Kazuo creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Kazuo is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Kazuo 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Kazuo goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Kazuo'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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Kazuo Ishiguro's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 8, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Kazuo Ishiguro's birth date, November 8, 1954, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Kazuo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kazuo Ishiguro's date-only chart is Venus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Kazuo Ishiguro combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Kazuo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kazuo Ishiguro, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Aries 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.
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 0.4° orb
Kazuo’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Kazuo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.5° to 1.0° orb
Kazuo’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.9° orb
Kazuo’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineUranus0.9° to 1.4° orb
Kazuo’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
Kazuo’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.2° orb
Kazuo’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.1° orb
Kazuo’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Kazuo’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.3° to 3.2° orb
Kazuo’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.4° orb
Kazuo’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.0° to 3.6° orb
Kazuo’s affections flow straight into their growth.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Kazuo’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Kazuo is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°16′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Kazuo is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°06′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Kazuo is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 28°43′ (moves 0.34° 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. Kazuo is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 16°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Kazuo is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.2°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.5°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.5°
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°).
Kazuo’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. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Kazuo is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Kazuo’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 Scorpio · 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 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kazuo Ishiguro, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Kazuo’s cards
Every card is computed from November 8, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kazuo Ishiguro, 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
Kazuo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272855, 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 Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kazuo Ishiguro at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Quick answers about Kazuo Ishiguro’s chart
- How old is Kazuo Ishiguro?
- Kazuo Ishiguro is 71 years old, born November 8, 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Kazuo Ishiguro?
- Kazuo Ishiguro is a Scorpio: born November 8, 1954, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is Kazuo Ishiguro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 8, 1954 birth.
- What time was Kazuo Ishiguro 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 Kazuo Ishiguro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the November 8, 1954 birth date.
- What is Kazuo Ishiguro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 8, 1954 birth date.
- Where is Kazuo Ishiguro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kazuo Ishiguro's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
