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Shinya Yamanaka

Shinya Yamanaka (born September 4, 1962, Hiraoka, Japan), aged 64, is a Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962). Yamanaka has served as professor. Yamanaka's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Culture and March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.

Shinya Yamanaka’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Shinya Yamanaka’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 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

What Shinya’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

5

Soul Urge · freedom

3

Personality · bright, quick

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

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

Shinya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

The record

What sets Shinya apart

Beyoncé (1981) and Liz Greene (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Shinya, according to the stars

Core essence

Shinya 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 Shinya is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Shinya wants to be loved

Shinya 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. Shinya gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Shinya creates

How Shinya 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. Shinya 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: Shinya 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Shinya is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Shinya does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Shinya's birth date. Working below.

Where Shinya sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Shinya

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shinya

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

PrivateExpressive
Shinya

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shinya

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

PracticalVisionary
Shinya

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shinya

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 Shinya Yamanaka

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

Shinya’s birth-night reference starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 11.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Hiraoka that night

Computed for 34.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Hiraoka at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.7°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 Hiraoka at all: they sit past the −55.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 24% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.

How unusual Shinya's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · No Fire 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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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Sees the typo from across the room.

Shinya Yamanaka's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 4, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Shinya Yamanaka was born on September 4, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 22

Big blueprint, real hands.

Shinya Yamanaka's birth date, September 4, 1962, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Shinya’s chart

Shinya’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.2° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.8° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.2° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.7° orbSun in Virgo · 11°07′☉11°Moon in Scorpio · 5°35′☽5°Mercury in Libra · 7°03′☿7°Venus in Libra · 27°15′♀27°Mars in Cancer · 8°01′♂8°Jupiter in Pisces · 7°15′ · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Aquarius · 5°46′ · retrograde♄℞5°Uranus in Virgo · 1°34′♅1°Neptune in Scorpio · 11°12′♆11°Pluto in Virgo · 9°55′♇9°

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

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Shinya’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMoonsquareSaturn0.1° to 6.2° orb

    Shinya’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Shinya’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto0.7° to 1.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.7° to 1.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.6° to 2.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.9° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 8°21′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 8°22′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 9°11′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 28°17′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.3°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 1.6°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.5°
  • Ceres opposition Saturn 2.6°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 2.8°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°
  • Ceres square Neptune 2.8°

Shinya’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Shinya’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, SunA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 2.2°

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Shinya’s cards

Computed from September 4, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Shinya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80917 (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.

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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 Shinya Yamanaka.

Quick answers about Shinya Yamanaka’s chart

How old is Shinya Yamanaka?
Shinya Yamanaka is 64 years old, born September 4, 1962 in Hiraoka, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Shinya Yamanaka?
Shinya Yamanaka is a Virgo: born September 4, 1962, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Shinya Yamanaka's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 4, 1962 birth.
What is Shinya Yamanaka's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Shinya Yamanaka's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Shinya Yamanaka's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Shinya Yamanaka's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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