Image: Wikimedia CommonsArt · October 31, 1760 · Honjo
Katsushika Hokusai's Birth Chart
Sun in Scorpio · Moon in Leo
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century. Wikipedia
Sun in Scorpio
8°33′Your core is intensity: living fully, transforming yourself and looking where others turn away. Your essence grows stronger in depth, transformation and naked truth. You need to cross the shadows, let go of what is obsolete and be reborn with greater inner solidity.
Moon in Leo
14°01′Your heart needs to be seen, needs warmth and room to show itself as it is: loyalty and sincere recognition are your emotional nourishment. You feel magnanimously and need your affections to affirm your true self.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Katsushika Hokusai, so this chart doesn't set it. Their planets by sign, however, remain reliable.
Section II · The map
Their natal wheel
The sky on the day they were born. The outer ring is the twelve signs; the lines across the centre, the aspects between planets. Without a birth time, houses and the Ascendant aren't drawn.
Section III · The detail
Planets and aspects
The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.
Katsushika Hokusai's placements
We compute the placements for the day of birth. Without the exact time the Ascendant and houses can't be fixed, but each planet's sign is reliable.
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 8°33′ |
| Moon | Leo | 14°01′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 18°07′ |
| Venus | Scorpio | 28°39′ |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 20°43′ |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 18°04′ |
| Saturn | Pisces ℞ | 22°28′ |
| Uranus | Aries ℞ | 1°50′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 21°50′ |
| Pluto | Sagittarius | 25°36′ |
Beyond the planets
Three keys beyond the ten classical planets, which astrology reads as axes of the chart. All four angles need your birth time.
Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.
The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.
Katsushika Hokusai's aspects
Each aspect is an angle between two planets; it defines how they speak to each other. Aspects to the Moon are approximate: they depend on the exact birth time.
Elements and modalities
How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.
Section IV · The signature
The signature of their sky
The whole at a glance: how the planets are spread, and the accents that set the overall tone of the chart.
Seesaw
Your planets gather in two opposite groups: you live in the push and pull between them.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Fire and the Fixed modality.
Neptune is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Scorpio: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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