Ryōji Noyori
Ryōji Noyori (born September 3, 1938, Ashiya, Japan), aged 88, is a Japanese chemist (1938 - ). Noyori has played for Kyoto University Rugby Football Club. Noyori's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Asahi Prize.
Ryōji Noyori’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ryōji
Ryōji Noyori’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What Ryōji’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ryōji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Ryōji apart
Carl David Anderson (1905) and Charlie Sheen (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ryōji, according to the stars
Core essence
Ryōji notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Ryōji is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Ryōji wants to be loved
Ryōji wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Ryōji gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Ryōji creates
How Ryōji 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. Ryōji 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: Ryōji is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ryōji 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ryōji fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Ryōji's birth date. Working below.
Where Ryōji sits
Six lines
Ryōji’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ryōji Noyori
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ashiya 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 Ashiya that night
Computed for 34.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ashiya at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 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.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 67% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.
How unusual Ryōji's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Ryōji Noyori's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 3, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Ryōji Noyori was born on September 3, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Ryōji Noyori's birth date, September 3, 1938, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ryōji’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ryōji Noyori's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ryōji Noyori combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Ryōji’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
Ryōji’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenussextileMars0.8° to 1.2° orb
Ryōji’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
Ryōji’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.7° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.2° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.2° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 6.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Ryōji’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 8°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 17°09′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 19°02′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres square Mars 0.3°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.8°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.4°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.6°
Ryōji’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ryōji’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.1°
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More charts like Ryōji’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Bradley BarcolaFrench footballer (born 2002)
- Gonçalo InácioPortuguese footballer (born 2001)
- Pape Matar SarrSenegalese association football player (born 2002)
Born in Tiger years
- Ronnie RiversAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Sam OkuayinonuAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Keion WhiteAmerican football player (born 1999)
Also born on September 3
- Carl David Anderson1905
- Charlie Sheen1965
- Júlio César1979
- Eileen Gu2003
- Kaia Gerber2001
- Iman Vellani2002
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- George SandersBritish actor
- Jean HagenAmerican actress
- Perry LopezAmerican actor
Other Virgo Tiger charts
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- Emmy RossumAmerican actress
- Maxine WatersUnited States Representative from California since 1991
- Brittany FurlanAmerican comedian
Other Steadfast Healers
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- João NevesPortuguese footballer (born 2004)
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- Jack ChampionAmerican actor (born 2004)
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Ryōji’s cards
Computed from September 3, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ryōji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157210 (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 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ryōji Noyori at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ryōji Noyori.
Quick answers about Ryōji Noyori’s chart
- How old is Ryōji Noyori?
- Ryōji Noyori is 88 years old, born September 3, 1938 in Ashiya, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Ryōji Noyori?
- Ryōji Noyori is a Virgo: born September 3, 1938, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Ryōji Noyori's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 3, 1938 birth.
- What is Ryōji Noyori's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ryōji Noyori's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ryōji Noyori's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ryōji Noyori's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
