Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki (born March 12, 1925, Takaida, Japan), aged 101, is a Japanese physicist (1925-). Esaki's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Culture and IBM Fellow.
Leo Esaki’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Leo Esaki’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Leo in the U.S.?
#19
US rank in 2025
~262,124
Americans share it since 1880
2022
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Leo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Leo, according to the stars
Core essence
Leo feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Leo is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Leo 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 Leo 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 Leo wants to be loved
Leo wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Leo, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Leo creates
How Leo makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Leo creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Leo is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Leo is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Leo is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Leo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Leo sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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Leo Esaki at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Leo Esaki's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 12, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Leo Esaki was born on March 12, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Leo Esaki's birth date, March 12, 1925, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Leo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leo Esaki's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Leo Esaki combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Leo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Leo Esaki, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Libra 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.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Leo’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarssextileUranus0.6° to 1.2° orb
Leo’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto0.7° to 2.0° orb
Leo’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars1.1° to 1.5° orb
Leo’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.6° to 2.2° orb
Leo’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrinePluto2.6° orb
Leo’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
Leo’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenustrineSaturn3.3° to 4.6° orb
Leo’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb
Leo’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus4.0° to 4.1° orb
Leo’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.7° to 5.2° orb
Leo’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.8° to 6.8° orb
Leo’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Leo’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.
⚷ ChironAries 22°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Leo may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°30′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Leo is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 17°17′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Leo is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 18°20′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Leo is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Leo guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.0°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.7°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.9°
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°).
Leo’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. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Leo is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Leo’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 Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 quintile Mars 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Leo Esaki, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Leo’s cards
Every card is computed from March 12, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Leo Esaki, 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
Leo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179852, 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 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Leo Esaki 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 Leo Esaki.
Quick answers about Leo Esaki’s chart
- How old is Leo Esaki?
- Leo Esaki is 101 years old, born March 12, 1925 in Takaida, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Leo Esaki?
- Leo Esaki is a Pisces: born March 12, 1925, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox.
- What is Leo Esaki's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 12, 1925 birth.
- What time was Leo Esaki 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 Leo Esaki's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 12, 1925 birth date.
- What is Leo Esaki's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 12, 1925 birth date.
- Where is Leo Esaki's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Leo Esaki's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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