Akira Kurosawa

Film director and screenwriter · Japan · 1910–1998

Aries 1.6° · born March 23, 1910
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 1.6° Aries, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Ōi—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

At the noon reference the Sun sits 1.6° into Aries — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Mars. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 18.6° Pisces, Venus was at 20.8° Aquarius, Mars was at 5.4° Gemini. Read together: thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that begins as conversation; effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Saturn at right angles from Uranus, 1.5° off exact. A square is friction that produces motion — the aspect the tradition credits with building capability precisely by refusing to be comfortable. Behind it, Saturn sextile Pluto at 1.8°, and Mercury trine Neptune at 2.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

The standing structure

The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. The Sun in Aries at 1.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mercury in Pisces at 18.6° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Saturn in Aries at 23.1° is in fall. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements air 4, fire 2, water 2, earth 1; modalities cardinal 5, mutable 3, fixed 1. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. Jupiter and Neptune were retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.4° between one midnight and the next. Without a recorded hour there is no honest way to say which side it was on, so this reading does not say. The Moon sign is a real question here, not a rounding error, and it needs a birth time nobody has published.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Akira Kurosawa · revision 1363791281
Wikidata: Q8006 · revision 2522814172
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1910-03-23 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Ōi, Japan · Q11432209
Coordinates: 35.6019, 139.7366 · from Ōi
Reference instant: 1910-03-23T03:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.42° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: 映画の友 (Eiga no tomo) · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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