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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Yoichiro
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.
What Yoichiro’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Yoichiro’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Yoichiro apart
Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Yoichiro sits
Six lines
Yoichiro’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Yoichiro Nambu
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tokyo 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 Tokyo that night
Computed for 35.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Tokyo was Elnath, in Taurus, 82.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.7°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 Tokyo at all: they sit past the −54.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 63% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
How unusual Yoichiro's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets
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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Taurus 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
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
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.9° to 4.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.9° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.8° to 6.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.1° to 6.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.0° to 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 6°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 27°50′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°58′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 4°45′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Yoichiro’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Yoichiro’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.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.9°
More people like Yoichiro
Other professors
- Shinichiro Tomonaga1906
- Masatoshi Koshiba1926
- Leland Stowe1899
- Paul Lauterbur1929
- Pyotr Kapitsa1894
- Akira Suzuki1930
Born in Japan
- Heisuke HironakaJapanese mathematician
- Shinichiro TomonagaJapanese physicist
- Yukio MishimaJapanese author
- Yoko OnoJapanese artist and activist based in the United States
- Yasushi NagaoJapanese photographer
- Hideki YukawaJapanese theoretical physicist
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on January 18
- Kevin Costner1955
- Paul Keating1944
- Jason Segel1980
- Jay Chou1979
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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- Dak PrescottAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Jonathan TaylorAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Capricorn Monkey charts
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Other Gilded Pioneers
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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Yoichiro’s cards
Computed from January 18, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yoichiro’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188120 (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 Betsy Devine, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yoichiro Nambu at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yoichiro Nambu.
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.
- 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 was Yoichiro Nambu's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Yoichiro Nambu's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
