Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (born January 14, 1925, Tokyo, Japan; died 1970), was a Japanese author. Mishima is best remembered for The Sea of Fertility, The Sound of Waves and Confessions of a Mask. Mishima's honours include Yomiuri Prize, Kishida Theatre Award and Shinchosha literature award.
Yukio Mishima’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Yukio Mishima’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Yukio’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Yukio, according to the stars
Core essence
Yukio is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Yukio 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, Yukio is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Yukio needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Yukio wants to be loved
Yukio wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Yukio and watch them fall for you again.
How Yukio creates
How Yukio makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Yukio creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Yukio is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Yukio 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Yukio gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Yukio's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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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Yukio Mishima at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Yukio Mishima's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 14, 1925, 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.
Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Yukio Mishima was born on January 14, 1925, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Yukio Mishima's birth date, January 14, 1925, 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 Yukio’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yukio Mishima's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Yukio Mishima combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Yukio’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yukio Mishima, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Virgo 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.6° to 1.1° orb
Yukio’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Yukio’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto3.2° to 3.9° orb
Yukio’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° orb
Yukio’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineNeptune5.8° to 6.5° orb
Yukio’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.0° to 6.5° orb
Yukio’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.0° to 6.3° orb
Yukio’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableUranustrinePluto6.3° orb
Yukio’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 7.7° orb
Yukio’s affections and growth act as one.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Yukio’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 20°11′ (moves 0.01° 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: Yukio may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 28°50′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Yukio looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°04′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Yukio is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°18′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Yukio is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Yukio guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 trine Venus 0.2°
- Eros square Saturn 0.9°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.2°
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°).
Yukio’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Yukio 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 Yukio’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.
Grand trine · Saturn, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yukio Mishima, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Yukio’s cards
Every card is computed from January 14, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yukio Mishima, 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
Yukio’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q134456, 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 Ken Domon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yukio Mishima at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yukio Mishima.
Quick answers about Yukio Mishima’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Yukio Mishima?
- Yukio Mishima was a Capricorn: born January 14, 1925, 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 Wood Rat.
- What was Yukio Mishima's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 14, 1925 birth.
- What time was Yukio Mishima 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.
- How tall was Yukio Mishima?
- Yukio Mishima was 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Yukio Mishima's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 14, 1925 birth date.
- What was Yukio Mishima's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 14, 1925 birth date.
- Where was Yukio Mishima's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Yukio Mishima's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
