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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Kazuo
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.
How common is the name Kazuo in the U.S.?
#12988
US rank in 2025
~762
Americans share it since 1911
1921
its peak year
Kazuo is in US records from 1911, but 1954 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1921.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kazuo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on K (2) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kazuo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Kazuo apart
Alain Delon (1935) and Gordon Ramsay (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Kazuo sits
Six lines
Kazuo’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 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.
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 Kazuo Ishiguro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nagasaki 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 Nagasaki that night
Computed for 32.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Nagasaki at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 5.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Nagasaki sits at 32.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Nagasaki on any night.
Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Kazuo's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Earth planets · Venus retrograde
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 →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenustrineUranus0.9° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.4° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.0° to 3.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°16′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°06′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 28°43′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 16°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Kazuo’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Kazuo’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
More people like Kazuo
Other screenwriters
- J. Michael Straczynski1954
- Peter Gallagher1955
- James Cameron1954
- Billy Bob Thornton1955
- Bob Weinstein1954
- Dana Carvey1955
Born in Japan
- Shigefumi MoriJapanese mathematician
- Shinya YamanakaJapanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
- Susumu KitagawaJapanese chemist
- Takahisa TakaharaJapanese businessman
- Kaoru KobayashiJapanese actor
- Michael RamirezAmerican cartoonist
More charts like Kazuo’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Shailene WoodleyAmerican actress
- Adam DriverAmerican actor
- Jimmy KimmelAmerican talk show host and comedian
Born in Horse years
- Sinéad O'ConnorIrish singer-songwriter and activist
- Grace HopperAmerican computer scientist and United States Navy officer
- James FrancoAmerican actor
Also born on November 8
- Alain Delon1935
- Gordon Ramsay1966
- SZA1989
- DanTDM1991
- Kevin Kwan1973
- Lauren Alaina1994
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Ellie GouldingEnglish singer and songwriter
- Millie Bobby BrownBritish actress
- Saoirse RonanIrish-American actress
Other Scorpio Horse charts
- Calvin KleinAmerican fashion designer
- Vanessa-MaeBritish violinist
- Sōichirō HondaJapanese engineer and industrialist
- Jeff BuckleyAmerican musician
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Diana RossAmerican singer and actress
- LisaThai rapper, singer, model, dancer and actress
- Siti NurhalizaMalaysian singer, actress, and model
- Lucy LawlessNew Zealand actress
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Alexander SkarsgårdSwedish actor
- Tony RobbinsAmerican author, professional speaker
- Netumbo Nandi-NdaitwahNamibian politician
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
Computed from November 8, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kazuo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272855 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Kazuo Ishiguro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kazuo Ishiguro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
