Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu (born January 18, 1921, Tokyo, Japan; died 2015), was an American theoretical physicist. Nambu's honours include Order of Culture, Sakurai Prize and National Medal of Science.
Yoichiro Nambu’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Yoichiro Nambu’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
Yoichiro’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 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
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What the chart says
Yoichiro, according to the stars
Core essence
Yoichiro is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Yoichiro is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Yoichiro is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Yoichiro needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Yoichiro wants to be loved
Yoichiro wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Yoichiro, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Yoichiro creates
How Yoichiro makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Yoichiro creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Yoichiro is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Yoichiro is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Yoichiro slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Yoichiro'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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Yoichiro Nambu's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 18, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Yoichiro Nambu was born on January 18, 1921, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Yoichiro Nambu's birth date, January 18, 1921, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Yoichiro’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yoichiro Nambu's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Yoichiro Nambu combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Yoichiro’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yoichiro Nambu, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Taurus 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.2° orb
Yoichiro’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto2.1° to 2.9° orb
Yoichiro’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
Yoichiro’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.1° orb
Yoichiro’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.9° to 4.6° orb
Yoichiro’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranustrinePluto3.9° orb
Yoichiro’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrinePluto4.8° to 6.0° orb
Yoichiro’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.1° to 6.3° orb
Yoichiro’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.7° orb
Yoichiro’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.0° to 6.1° orb
Yoichiro’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Yoichiro’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.
⚷ ChironAries 6°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Yoichiro may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 27°50′ (moves 0.16° 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 Yoichiro feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°58′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Yoichiro is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 4°45′ (moves 0.10° 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. Yoichiro is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Yoichiro is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.7°
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°).
Yoichiro’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Yoichiro is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Yoichiro’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.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yoichiro Nambu, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Yoichiro’s cards
Every card is computed from January 18, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yoichiro Nambu, 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
Yoichiro’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188120, 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 Betsy Devine, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yoichiro Nambu 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 Yoichiro Nambu’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Yoichiro Nambu?
- Yoichiro Nambu was a Capricorn: born January 18, 1921, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was Yoichiro Nambu's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1921 birth.
- What time was Yoichiro Nambu 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 Yoichiro Nambu's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 18, 1921 birth date.
- What was Yoichiro Nambu's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 18, 1921 birth date.
- Where was Yoichiro Nambu's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Yoichiro Nambu's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
