Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku Honjo (born January 27, 1942, Kyoto, Japan), aged 84, is a Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–). Honjo's honours include Order of Culture, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Robert Koch Prize.
Tasuku Honjo’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Tasuku
Tasuku Honjo’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What Tasuku’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on T (2) and closes on U (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tasuku’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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 1941, 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 Tasuku apart
Tasuku Honjo took the Asahi Prize in 1981, at 39.
Yamaguchi Prefectural Ube High School and Kyoto University shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Tasuku Honjo: Scientists from Kyoto, Japanese immunologists and Immunotherapy.
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yamaguchi Prefectural Ube High School and Kyoto University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2018), Order of Culture (2013) and Robert Koch Prize (2012)
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Tasuku, according to the stars
Core essence
Tasuku is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Tasuku is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Tasuku processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Tasuku needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Tasuku wants to be loved
Tasuku wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Tasuku be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Tasuku creates
How Tasuku makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tasuku 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: Tasuku is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Tasuku 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Tasuku is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Tasuku's birth date. Working below.
Where Tasuku sits
Six lines
Tasuku’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Tasuku Honjo
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kyoto 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 Kyoto that night
Computed for 35.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Kyoto at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.5° above the horizon in Taurus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.0°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 Kyoto at all: they sit past the −55.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 79% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
How unusual Tasuku's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Mars · Five planets retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Tasuku Honjo's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Tasuku Honjo was born on January 27, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Tasuku Honjo's birth date, January 27, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Tasuku’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tasuku Honjo's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tasuku Honjo combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Tasuku’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Gemini 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.4° orb
Tasuku’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableSunsquareMars1.0° to 1.5° orb
Tasuku’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.1° to 1.9° orb
Tasuku’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.8° to 3.6° orb
stableMarssquarePluto2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.2° to 4.7° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.4° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Tasuku’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 11°49′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°14′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°09′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°32′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.8°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.6°
Tasuku’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Tasuku’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 Mars · Sun, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.2°
More people like Tasuku
Other physicians
- John Sulston1942
- Peter C. Doherty1940
- Stanley B. Prusiner1942
- Harold E. Varmus1939
- Bert Sakmann1942
- Tomas Lindahl1938
Born in Japan
- Rei KawakuboJapanese fashion designer, business woman
- Kenzō TsujimotoJapanese businessman
- Yohji YamamotoJapanese fashion designer
- Kagemasa KozukiJapanese industrialist
- Makoto KobayashiJapanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
- Toshio SakaiJapanese photographer
More charts like Tasuku’s
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- Robert N. ButlerAmerican academic
- Mel PowellAmerican composer
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Born in Snake years
- Carl David AndersonAmerican physicist
- Aristotle OnassisGreek shipping magnate
- Michael BloombergAmerican businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New York City
Also born on January 27
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Alan Cumming1965
- Mike Patton1968
- Georgina Rodríguez1994
- Liu Wen1988
- Jake Pavelka1978
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- AnggunIndonesian-born French singer-songwriter and television personality
- Emma WatsonEnglish actress
- Shah Rukh KhanIndian actor, producer and television personality
Other Aquarius Snake charts
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- Elizabeth OlsenAmerican actress
Other Gilded Scholars
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- Martin BalsamAmerican actor
- Erich von StroheimAustrian actor and director
- Gene KellyAmerican dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer
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Tasuku’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tasuku’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2395341 (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 大臣官房人事課, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tasuku Honjo at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tasuku Honjo.
Quick answers about Tasuku Honjo’s chart
- How old is Tasuku Honjo?
- Tasuku Honjo is 84 years old, born January 27, 1942 in Kyoto, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Tasuku Honjo?
- Tasuku Honjo is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Tasuku Honjo's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1942 birth.
- What is Tasuku Honjo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tasuku Honjo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tasuku Honjo's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tasuku Honjo's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
