Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa (born September 1, 1935, Shenyang, China; died 2024), was a Japanese orchestra conductor. Ozawa's honours include Order of Culture, Emmy Award and Order of Friendship.
Seiji Ozawa’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Seiji
Seiji Ozawa’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Seiji in the U.S.?
#9569
US rank in 2025
~517
Americans share it since 1914
2007
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Seiji falls under that line for 1935. Its peak came in 2007, and 517 Americans have carried it since 1914.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Seiji’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Seiji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 Seiji apart
The Asahi Prize came in 1985, when Seiji Ozawa was 50.
Seiji Ozawa was taught at Toho Gakuen School of Music.
Seiji Ozawa was 24 when the work began in 1959.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
The family line: born to Kaisaku Ozawa, married Miki Irie and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Seiji Ozawa under Music directors of the Vienna State Opera, Japanese people from Manchukuo and Deaths from congestive heart failure in Japan.
Gloria Estefan (1957) and Jungkook (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Toho Gakuen School of Music
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (2004), Order of Culture (2008) and Asahi Prize (1985)
- Working from
- 1959
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Sport
- rugby
- Citizenship
- Japan and Empire of Japan
- Languages
- English, Japanese and Standard Chinese
- Wikipedia editions
- 38
What the chart says
Seiji, according to the stars
Core essence
Seiji 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 Seiji is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Seiji 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 Seiji 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 Seiji wants to be loved
Seiji 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 Seiji and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Seiji creates
How Seiji makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Seiji creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Seiji is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Seiji is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Seiji leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Seiji runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Seiji's birth date. Working below.
Where Seiji sits
Six lines
Seiji’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.
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 Seiji Ozawa
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shenyang 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 Shenyang that night
Computed for 41.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Shenyang at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Shenyang sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Shenyang on any night.
The Moon, 11% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Shenyang, People's Republic of China
The death is recorded at Tokyo in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Seiji Ozawa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Seiji's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Only two elements · 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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Seiji Ozawa's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Seiji Ozawa was born on September 1, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Seiji Ozawa's birth date, September 1, 1935, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Seiji’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Seiji Ozawa's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Seiji Ozawa combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Seiji’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Seiji’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars0.3° to 1.5° orb
Seiji’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
Seiji’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.4° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.5° to 2.2° orb
stableSuntrineUranus2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.3° to 7.4° orb
possibleMarstrinePlutoorb from 6.5° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Seiji’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°01′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 18°10′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 22°55′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°29′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron square Venus 2.9°
Seiji’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Seiji’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
More people like Seiji
Other conductors
- Leon Fleisher1928
- Zubin Mehta1936
- Merce Cunningham1919
- James Levine1943
- Eugene Ormandy1899
Born in People's Republic of China
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- Walter Houser BrattainAmerican physicist
- Zhou LongChinese-American composer
- Tenzin Gyatso14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans
- He XiangjianChinese businessperson (1942-)
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on September 1
- Gloria Estefan1957
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- Zendaya1996
- Romeo Beckham2002
- Tom Kaulitz1989
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- Joshua KimmichGerman association football player (born 1995)
- Noa LangDutch association football player (born 1999)
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Other Gilded Storytellers
- Allvar GullstrandSwedish ophthalmologist
- George E. SmithNobel prize winning American physicist
- Leopold RužičkaCroatian scientist
- Nathan SöderblomSwedish clergyman and archbishop
Famous people with Life Path 1
- James P. AllisonAmerican immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
- Aziz SancarTurkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
- Wilhelm OstwaldBaltic German chemist
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Seiji’s cards
Computed from September 1, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Seiji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313649 (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 文化庁, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Seiji Ozawa at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Seiji Ozawa.
Quick answers about Seiji Ozawa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Seiji Ozawa?
- Seiji Ozawa was a Virgo: born September 1, 1935, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Seiji Ozawa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1935 birth.
- What was Seiji Ozawa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Seiji Ozawa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Seiji Ozawa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Seiji Ozawa's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
