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Kō Itakura

Kō Itakura (born January 27, 1997, Yokohama, Japan), aged 29, is a Japanese footballer (born 1997). Itakura has played for Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Kō Itakura’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Kō Itakura’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

What Kō Itakura’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

11

Soul Urge · insight

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on K (2) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Kō Itakura’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

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 1996, 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 Kō Itakura apart

The working life starts in 2015, at 18.

Kō Itakura was married Haruna Kawaguchi.

Wikipedia's editors put Kō Itakura under Asian Games silver medalists for Japan, Footballers at the 2018 Asian Games and FC Groningen players.

Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Working from
2015
Sport
association football
Citizenship
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Wikipedia editions
49

What the chart says

Kō Itakura, according to the stars

Core essence

Kō Itakura is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Kō Itakura 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, Kō Itakura is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Kō Itakura needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Kō Itakura wants to be loved

Kō Itakura wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Kō Itakura you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Kō Itakura creates

How Kō Itakura makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Kō Itakura creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Kō Itakura is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kō Itakura is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Kō Itakura fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Kō Itakura's birth date. Working below.

Where Kō Itakura sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kō Itakura

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kō Itakura

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Kō Itakura

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kō Itakura

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

PracticalVisionary
Kō Itakura

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kō Itakura

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kō Itakura

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

Kō Itakura’s birth-night reference starElnathblue-white · TaurusElnath, in Taurus. A blue-white star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Elnath →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 78.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Yokohama that night

Computed for 35.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Yokohama was Elnath, in Taurus, 82.0° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 35.4°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 Yokohama at all: they sit past the −54.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 87% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.

How unusual Kō's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · No Water planets

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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Kō Itakura in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Kō Itakura's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Kō Itakura was born on January 27, 1997, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Kō Itakura's birth date, January 27, 1997, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Kō Itakura’s chart

Kō Itakura’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 20° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.9° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun in Aquarius · 7°13′☉7°Moon in Virgo · 15°01′☽15°Mercury in Capricorn · 12°52′☿12°Venus in Capricorn · 21°09′♀21°Mars in Libra · 5°20′♂5°Jupiter in Aquarius · 1°17′♃1°Saturn in Aries · 3°10′♄3°Uranus in Aquarius · 4°46′♅4°Neptune in Capricorn · 27°49′♆27°Pluto in Sagittarius · 5°08′♇5°

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

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Kō Itakura’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Kō Itakura’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarstrineUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Kō Itakura’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrineMars1.4° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus2.0° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 3.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.

Kō Itakura’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 1°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 4°12′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 18°12′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 24°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.0°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.1°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
  • Hygiea square Venus 3.0°

Kō Itakura’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn9.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    disposes Pluto; 6 major aspects

Configurations in Kō Itakura’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree 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 quintile Saturn 0.0°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.0°

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Kō Itakura’s cards

Computed from January 27, 1997. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kō Itakura’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20038711 (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 McRonaldo9, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kō Itakura at Wikipedia, koitakura.jp, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kō Itakura.

Quick answers about Kō Itakura’s chart

How old is Kō Itakura?
Kō Itakura is 29 years old, born January 27, 1997 in Yokohama, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Kō Itakura?
Kō Itakura is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1997, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Kō Itakura's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1997 birth.
How tall is Kō Itakura?
Kō Itakura is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Kō Itakura's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Kō Itakura's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kō Itakura's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kō Itakura's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 6 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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