Takaaki Kajita
Takaaki Kajita (born March 9, 1959, Higashimatsuyama, Japan), aged 67, is a Japanese physicist and astronomer. Kajita's honours include Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics and Person of Cultural Merit.
Takaaki Kajita’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Takaaki
Takaaki Kajita’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Takaaki’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Takaaki’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Takaaki apart
The Asahi Prize came in 1987, when Takaaki Kajita was 28.
Study took Takaaki Kajita to Kawagoe High School and Saitama University.
Wikipedia files Takaaki Kajita under People from Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Scientists from Saitama Prefecture and Saitama University alumni.
Yuri Gagarin (1934) and Oscar Isaac (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Kawagoe High School, Saitama University and University of Tokyo
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2015), Order of Culture (2015) and Nishina Memorial Prize (1988)
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 70
What the chart says
Takaaki, according to the stars
Core essence
Takaaki feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Takaaki is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Takaaki is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Takaaki needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Takaaki wants to be loved
Takaaki wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Takaaki creates
How Takaaki makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Takaaki creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Takaaki is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Takaaki 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Takaaki scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Takaaki's birth date. Working below.
Where Takaaki sits
Six lines
Takaaki’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Takaaki Kajita
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Higashimatsuyama on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Higashimatsuyama that night
Computed for 36.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Higashimatsuyama at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 11.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Higashimatsuyama sits at 36.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −54.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Higashimatsuyama on any night.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Takaaki's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Takaaki Kajita's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 9, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Takaaki Kajita was born on March 9, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Takaaki Kajita's birth date, March 9, 1959, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Takaaki’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Takaaki Kajita's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Takaaki Kajita combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Takaaki’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb
Takaaki’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileUranus0.1° to 0.6° orb
Takaaki’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Takaaki’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.0° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.9° to 5.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Takaaki’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 24°24′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°19′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 26°46′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 12°50′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.8°
Takaaki’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Takaaki’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.3°
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Takaaki’s cards
Computed from March 9, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Takaaki’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11538917 (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 日本学術会議, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Takaaki Kajita at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Takaaki Kajita.
Quick answers about Takaaki Kajita’s chart
- How old is Takaaki Kajita?
- Takaaki Kajita is 67 years old, born March 9, 1959 in Higashimatsuyama, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Takaaki Kajita?
- Takaaki Kajita is a Pisces: born March 9, 1959, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Takaaki Kajita's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 9, 1959 birth.
- What is Takaaki Kajita's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Takaaki Kajita's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Takaaki Kajita's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Takaaki Kajita's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
