Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura (born May 22, 1954, Ikata, Japan), aged 72, is a Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics. Nakamura is best known for blue light-emitting diode. Nakamura's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Culture and Zeiss Research Award.
Shuji Nakamura’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Shuji Nakamura’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
Shuji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Shuji, according to the stars
Core essence
Shuji is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Shuji needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Shuji is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Shuji needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Shuji wants to be loved
Shuji wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Shuji like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Shuji creates
How Shuji 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. Shuji 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: Shuji is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Shuji 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 Shuji leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Shuji does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Shuji's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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Shuji Nakamura at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Shuji Nakamura's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 22, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Shuji Nakamura was born on May 22, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Shuji Nakamura's birth date, May 22, 1954, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Shuji’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shuji Nakamura's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Shuji Nakamura combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Shuji’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Shuji Nakamura, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Capricorn 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.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb
Shuji’s affections and growth act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Shuji’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
Shuji’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.8° to 5.0° orb
Shuji’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.3° orb
Shuji’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.5° to 4.8° orb
Shuji’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 6.7° orb
Shuji’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.7° to 5.9° orb
Shuji’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.5° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextilePlutoorb from 5.0° to 6.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Shuji’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 28°29′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Shuji is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresLibra 0°16′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Shuji is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 27°46′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Shuji is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°08′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Shuji is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Shuji that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Ceres trine Sun 0.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.0°
- Ceres square Venus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros opposition Sun 2.7°
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°).
Shuji’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Shuji is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Shuji’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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 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.
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shuji Nakamura, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Shuji’s cards
Every card is computed from May 22, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Shuji Nakamura, 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
Shuji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q730065, 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 Glenn Beltz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shuji Nakamura at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Shuji Nakamura’s chart
- How old is Shuji Nakamura?
- Shuji Nakamura is 72 years old, born May 22, 1954 in Ikata, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Shuji Nakamura?
- Shuji Nakamura is a Gemini: born May 22, 1954, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is Shuji Nakamura's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 22, 1954 birth.
- What time was Shuji Nakamura 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 Shuji Nakamura's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 22, 1954 birth date.
- What is Shuji Nakamura's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 22, 1954 birth date.
- Where is Shuji Nakamura's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shuji Nakamura's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
