People · sourced chart
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Actor and composer · Japan · 1952–2023
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Virgo throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Seven of the ten placements whose signs are settled fall in cardinal signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. Cardinal signs open the seasons, and a cardinal-heavy chart is read as one that starts things.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Nakano—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
Capricorn, but precisely: 25.9°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Mercury in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.
Closer to the ground
The personal planets sit Mercury at 5.0° Capricorn, Venus at 17.2° Sagittarius, Mars at 28.6° Libra. Mercury in a earth sign reads as a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; Venus in a fire sign reads as taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; Mars in a air sign reads as drive that argues its way forward.
The angles that hold
Neptune to Pluto is the closest call of the day, a sextile within 0.8°. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift. Behind it, Venus sextile Saturn at 2.3°, and the Sun square Mars at 2.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.
What the angles build
Mercury opposes Uranus while both square Jupiter. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address.
The classical map
Two planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mars in Libra at 28.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Libra at 14.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 3 earth, 3 fire, 3 air, 1 water by element and 7 cardinal, 2 mutable, 1 fixed by modality. Earth weights a chart toward the material and the durable — what can be built, kept, and relied on. Uranus and Pluto were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Virgo for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.2° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 19.6°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Ryuichi Sakamoto · revision 1363668962
- Wikidata
- Q345494 · revision 2519931323
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1952-01-17 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Nakano, Japan · Q234087
- Coordinates
- 35.7073, 139.6637 · from Nakano
- Reference instant
- 1952-01-17T03:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.20° · The Moon remained in Virgo throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- Joi Ito · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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