Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi (born February 9, 1945, Fukuoka, Japan), aged 81, is a Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - ). Ohsumi's honours include Order of Culture, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Yoshinori Ohsumi’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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Yoshinori Ohsumi’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
Yoshinori’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Yoshinori, according to the stars
Core essence
Yoshinori is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Yoshinori 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.
How Yoshinori wants to be loved
Yoshinori 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 Yoshinori creates
How Yoshinori makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Yoshinori creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Yoshinori 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Yoshinori 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Yoshinori does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Yoshinori'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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Yoshinori Ohsumi's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Yoshinori Ohsumi was born on February 9, 1945, which falls in a Wood 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 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Yoshinori Ohsumi's birth date, February 9, 1945, 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 Yoshinori’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yoshinori Ohsumi's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Yoshinori Ohsumi combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Yoshinori’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yoshinori Ohsumi, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 8.0° orb
Yoshinori’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Yoshinori’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Yoshinori’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Yoshinori’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb
Yoshinori’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.6° to 1.2° orb
Yoshinori’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
Yoshinori’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
Yoshinori’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb
Yoshinori’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
Yoshinori’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.8° orb
Yoshinori’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.5° to 4.1° orb
Yoshinori’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Yoshinori’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Yoshinori is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°09′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Yoshinori is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosTaurus 25°22′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Yoshinori wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°48′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Yoshinori is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Yoshinori that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 square Mercury 0.3°
- Eros trine Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Yoshinori’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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Yoshinori is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Yoshinori’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.
Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yoshinori Ohsumi, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Yoshinori
Mia Farrow was born on February 9, 1945 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Yoshinori’s cards
Every card is computed from February 9, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yoshinori Ohsumi, 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
Yoshinori’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8056214, 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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yoshinori Ohsumi 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 Yoshinori Ohsumi’s chart
- How old is Yoshinori Ohsumi?
- Yoshinori Ohsumi is 81 years old, born February 9, 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Yoshinori Ohsumi?
- Yoshinori Ohsumi is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1945, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1945 birth.
- What time was Yoshinori Ohsumi 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 Yoshinori Ohsumi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 9, 1945 birth date.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 9, 1945 birth date.
- Where is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
