Sōichirō Honda
Sōichirō Honda (born November 17, 1906, Shizuoka, Japan; died 1991), was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. Honda's honours include Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, Automotive Hall of Fame and James Watt International Medal.
Sōichirō Honda’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Sōichirō Honda’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
Sōichirō’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sōichirō, according to the stars
Core essence
Sōichirō does not do surface. The core of Sōichirō is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Sōichirō is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Sōichirō wants to be loved
Sōichirō wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Sōichirō and watch them fall for you again.
How Sōichirō creates
How Sōichirō 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. Sōichirō 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: Sōichirō 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Sōichirō is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Sōichirō fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Sōichirō's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Sōichirō Honda at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Sōichirō Honda's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Sōichirō Honda was born on November 17, 1906, which falls in a Fire 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 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Sōichirō Honda's birth date, November 17, 1906, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Sōichirō’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sōichirō Honda's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- Sōichirō Honda combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Sōichirō’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sōichirō Honda, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.3° to 1.0° orb
Sōichirō’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.6° orb
Sōichirō’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.5° orb
Sōichirō’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
Sōichirō’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileMars1.9° to 2.9° orb
Sōichirō’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.2° orb
Sōichirō’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.2° orb
Sōichirō’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileMars3.5° to 3.7° orb
Sōichirō’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.1° orb
Sōichirō’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
Sōichirō’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareUranus4.8° to 5.3° orb
Sōichirō’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb
Sōichirō’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Sōichirō’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 8°00′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Sōichirō making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°38′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Sōichirō feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosSagittarius 0°35′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Sōichirō attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 14°03′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Sōichirō is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Sōichirō that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.8°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.9°
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°).
Sōichirō’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. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Sōichirō is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Sōichirō’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.
T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sōichirō Honda, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sōichirō’s cards
Every card is computed from November 17, 1906, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sōichirō Honda, 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
Sōichirō’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313304, 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 財界研究社、撮影者不明, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sōichirō Honda at Wikipedia.
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 Sōichirō Honda’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sōichirō Honda?
- Sōichirō Honda was a Scorpio: born November 17, 1906, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- What was Sōichirō Honda's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1906 birth.
- What time was Sōichirō Honda 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 was Sōichirō Honda's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 17, 1906 birth date.
- What was Sōichirō Honda's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 17, 1906 birth date.
- Where was Sōichirō Honda's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sōichirō Honda's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
