Susumu Kitagawa
Susumu Kitagawa (born July 4, 1951, Kyoto, Japan), aged 75, is a Japanese chemist. Kitagawa's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Clarivate Citation Laureates.
Susumu Kitagawa’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Susumu Kitagawa’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Susumu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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What the chart says
Susumu, according to the stars
Core essence
Susumu feels the room before entering it. The core of Susumu is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Susumu, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Susumu is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Susumu needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Susumu wants to be loved
Susumu wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Susumu openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Susumu creates
How Susumu 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. Susumu 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: Susumu is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Susumu 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.
Computed from Susumu's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Susumu Kitagawa's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Susumu Kitagawa was born on July 4, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Susumu Kitagawa's birth date, July 4, 1951, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Susumu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Susumu Kitagawa's date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Susumu Kitagawa combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Susumu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Susumu Kitagawa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Cancer 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.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 7.0° orb
Susumu’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.9° to 1.8° orb
Susumu’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.1° to 2.0° orb
Susumu’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
Susumu’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
Susumu’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.1° to 3.8° orb
Susumu’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.5° to 5.5° orb
Susumu’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenussextileMars3.5° to 3.7° orb
Susumu’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
Susumu’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquareNeptune5.0° to 5.9° orb
Susumu’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° orb
Susumu’s growth flows straight into their depths.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Susumu’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 ℞Sagittarius 28°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Susumu building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresPisces 16°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Susumu is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 6°46′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Susumu is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°47′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Susumu needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer or Gemini during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Susumu guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Mars 1.1°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.5°
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°).
Susumu’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. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Susumu is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Susumu’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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn 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 semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Susumu Kitagawa, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Susumu’s cards
Every card is computed from July 4, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Susumu Kitagawa, 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
Susumu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11401680, 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 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Susumu Kitagawa 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 Susumu Kitagawa’s chart
- How old is Susumu Kitagawa?
- Susumu Kitagawa is 75 years old, born July 4, 1951 in Kyoto, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Susumu Kitagawa?
- Susumu Kitagawa is a Cancer: born July 4, 1951, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- What is Susumu Kitagawa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1951 birth.
- What time was Susumu Kitagawa 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 Susumu Kitagawa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 4, 1951 birth date.
- What is Susumu Kitagawa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 4, 1951 birth date.
- Where is Susumu Kitagawa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Susumu Kitagawa's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
