Yohji Yamamoto
Yohji Yamamoto (born October 3, 1943, Tokyo, Japan), aged 82, is a Japanese fashion designer. Yamamoto's honours include Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
Yohji Yamamoto’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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Yohji Yamamoto’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
Yohji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Yohji, according to the stars
Core essence
Yohji makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Yohji is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Yohji feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Yohji needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Yohji wants to be loved
Yohji wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Yohji and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Yohji creates
How Yohji makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Yohji builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Yohji is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Yohji is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Yohji scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Yohji'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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Yohji Yamamoto's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 3, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Yohji Yamamoto was born on October 3, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Yohji Yamamoto's birth date, October 3, 1943, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Yohji’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yohji Yamamoto's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Yohji Yamamoto combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Yohji’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yohji Yamamoto, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Scorpio 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.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Yohji’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsextilePluto0.1° to 1.1° orb
Yohji’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb
Yohji’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.7° to 1.8° orb
Yohji’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.8° to 1.9° orb
Yohji’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussquareUranus3.6° to 3.8° orb
Yohji’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.5° orb
Yohji’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars6.4° to 6.8° orb
Yohji’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 7.4° orb
Yohji’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.6° to 6.7° orb
Yohji’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune7.3° to 7.4° orb
Yohji’s mind and imagination act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Yohji’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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 9°11′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Yohji turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresCancer 4°42′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Yohji is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosScorpio 1°18′ (moves 0.75° 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. Yohji is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 27°03′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Yohji is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Yohji is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 sextile Venus 0.3°
- Chiron square Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.6°
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°).
Yohji’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Yohji 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 Yohji’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yohji Yamamoto, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Yohji’s cards
Every card is computed from October 3, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yohji Yamamoto, 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
Yohji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q707890, 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 Flick user Masaki-H, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Yohji Yamamoto’s chart
- How old is Yohji Yamamoto?
- Yohji Yamamoto is 82 years old, born October 3, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Yohji Yamamoto?
- Yohji Yamamoto is a Libra: born October 3, 1943, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- What is Yohji Yamamoto's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 3, 1943 birth.
- What time was Yohji Yamamoto 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 Yohji Yamamoto's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 3, 1943 birth date.
- What is Yohji Yamamoto's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 3, 1943 birth date.
- Where is Yohji Yamamoto's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yohji Yamamoto's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
