Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui (born October 4, 1918, Nara, Japan; died 1998), was a Japanese chemist. Fukui's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class.
Kenichi Fukui’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Kenichi
Kenichi Fukui’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kenichi in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~281
Americans share it since 1915
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1918, Kenichi came 1,630th, carried by 22 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kenichi’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on K (2) and closes on I (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kenichi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Kenichi apart
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Kenichi, according to the stars
Core essence
Kenichi makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Kenichi is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Kenichi wants to be loved
Kenichi 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 Kenichi and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Kenichi creates
How Kenichi 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. Kenichi 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: Kenichi 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Kenichi is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Kenichi has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Kenichi's birth date. Working below.
Where Kenichi sits
Six lines
Kenichi’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Kenichi Fukui
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nara 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 Nara that night
Computed for 34.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nara was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 75.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.7°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 Nara at all: they sit past the −55.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
How unusual Kenichi's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Kenichi Fukui at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Kenichi Fukui's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Kenichi Fukui was born on October 4, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Kenichi Fukui's birth date, October 4, 1918, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Kenichi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kenichi Fukui's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Kenichi Fukui combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Kenichi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 7.3° orb
Kenichi’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.3° orb
Kenichi’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 1.2° orb
Kenichi’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.4° to 6.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 1.6° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Kenichi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 2°16′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 10°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°12′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.2°
Kenichi’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Kenichi’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.3°
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Also born on October 4
- Susan Sarandon1946
- Vitaly Ginzburg1916
- Christoph Waltz1956
- Dakota Johnson1989
- Alicia Silverstone1976
- Melissa Benoist1988
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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- Max GeorgeBritish singer
- Lauren HollyAmerican actress
Other Libra Horse charts
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- GaeulSouth Korean singer and rapper, born 2002
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Other Evergreen Diplomats
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- Matisse ThybulleAustralian-American basketball player
- Quenton JacksonAmerican basketball player
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Kenichi’s cards
Computed from October 4, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kenichi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217734 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kenichi Fukui at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kenichi Fukui.
Quick answers about Kenichi Fukui’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kenichi Fukui?
- Kenichi Fukui was a Libra: born October 4, 1918, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1918 birth.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Kenichi Fukui's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
