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Shimon Sakaguchi

Shimon Sakaguchi (born January 19, 1951, Nagahama, Japan), aged 75, is a Japanese immunologist and physician (1951-). Sakaguchi's honours include Order of Culture, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.

Shimon Sakaguchi’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Shimon Sakaguchi’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Shimon in the U.S.?

#963

US rank in 2025

~5,492

Americans share it since 1947

2024

its peak year

Shimon is in US records from 1947, but 1951 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2024.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Shimon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

11

Soul Urge · insight

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Shimon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

The record

What sets Shimon apart

Dolly Parton (1946) and Janis Joplin (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Shimon, according to the stars

Core essence

Shimon is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Shimon is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Shimon processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Shimon needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Shimon wants to be loved

Shimon wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Shimon be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Shimon creates

How Shimon 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. Shimon 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: Shimon 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Shimon 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Shimon goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Shimon's birth date. Working below.

Where Shimon sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Shimon

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shimon

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Shimon

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shimon

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Shimon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shimon

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Shimon Sakaguchi

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

Shimon’s birth-night reference starElnathblue-white · TaurusElnath, in Taurus. A blue-white star, 81.3° 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, 79° 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 Nagahama that night

Computed for 35.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nagahama was Elnath, in Taurus, 81.3° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

Nagahama sits at 35.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Nagahama at all: they sit past the −54.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 88% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.

How unusual Shimon's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet

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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Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Shimon Sakaguchi's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 19, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Shimon Sakaguchi was born on January 19, 1951, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Shimon Sakaguchi's birth date, January 19, 1951, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Shimon’s chart

Shimon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 18° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 1.1° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.1° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 28°14′☉28°Moon in Gemini · 13°02′☽13°Mercury in Capricorn · 4°27′☿4°Venus in Aquarius · 14°06′♀14°Mars in Aquarius · 27°18′♂27°Jupiter in Pisces · 8°19′♃8°Saturn in Libra · 2°19′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Cancer · 6°36′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Libra · 19°32′♆19°Pluto in Leo · 19°08′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.4° orb

    Shimon’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb

    Shimon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.6° to 1.9° orb

    Shimon’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn1.8° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.6° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.8° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Shimon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 28°03′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 9°48′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°36′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 11°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Sun 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.7°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°

Shimon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Shimon’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.8°

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Shimon’s cards

Computed from January 19, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Shimon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17502433 (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 大臣官房人事課, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Shimon Sakaguchi.

Quick answers about Shimon Sakaguchi’s chart

How old is Shimon Sakaguchi?
Shimon Sakaguchi is 75 years old, born January 19, 1951 in Nagahama, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Shimon Sakaguchi?
Shimon Sakaguchi is a Capricorn: born January 19, 1951, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Shimon Sakaguchi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 19, 1951 birth.
What is Shimon Sakaguchi's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Shimon Sakaguchi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Shimon Sakaguchi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Shimon Sakaguchi's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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