Image: Wikimedia CommonsPolitics & history · April 29, 1901 · Akasaka Estate
Hirohito's Birth Chart
Sun in Taurus · Moon in Virgo
Emperor Shōwa, personal name Hirohito, was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. He reigned during a period of increasing Japanese nationalism and militarism, culminating in the entry of the Empire of Japan into World War II as an Axis power. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led Hirohito to announce the surrender of Japan to the Allies in August 1945. Under pressure from the Allies, he issued the Humanity Declaration in January 1946, rejecting the divinity of the emperor as a descendant of Amaterasu. The Constitution of Japan, adopted in November 1946, emphasizes pacifism and constitutional monarchy, in contrast to imperialism and absolute monarchy. After the war, he reigned over a period of unprecedented economic growth known as the Japanese economic miracle. Hirohito reigned for 62 years and 13 days, the longest reign in Japanese history and the 12th longest verifiable reign in world history. Wikipedia
Section I · The core
The two luminaries
Two lights set the tone of the whole chart: the Sun, the identity; the Moon, the emotional world.
Hirohito's Sun, in Taurus
Your centre is steadiness: you slowly build things that last, and sensory pleasure orders you. You flourish when you build at your own pace and give tangible form to what you value.
Hirohito's Moon, in Virgo
You settle by ordering: your emotions are tended with kind routines and useful gestures, not with high drama. You heal what you feel when you give it a practical form, analysing and caring for the details of daily life.
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.
Hirohito'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 | Taurus | 8°28′ |
| Moon | Virgo | 22°05′ |
| Mercury | Aries | 22°20′ |
| Venus | Taurus | 8°03′ |
| Mars | Leo | 26°30′ |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 13°03′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn ℞ | 16°23′ |
| Uranus | Sagittarius ℞ | 16°19′ |
| Neptune | Gemini | 27°11′ |
| Pluto | Gemini | 16°18′ |
Hirohito'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 Earth and the Mutable modality.
Moon is the most connected planet in their chart: 5 aspects tie it to the rest.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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