Masahiro Ando’s birth chart
Born 2 April 1972, in Sakado, Japan. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Aries Sun · Scorpio Moon
Masahiro Ando’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Masahiro Ando was born in Sakado, Japan, on 2 April 1972, a Sunday. That makes Masahiro an Aries, with the Moon in Scorpio. Masahiro turns 54 in 2026. No verified birth time is on file for Masahiro; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the ten planets, four are in air signs, three in fire, two in earth and one in water. Cardinal signs hold five, mutable signs three and fixed signs two. The tightest aspect is Mars conjunction Saturn, about 1.0° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Four planets were retrograde: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 22 other people born on 2 April, among them Alec Guinness, Marvin Gaye and Michael Fassbender.
See the sky the day Masahiro was born: the stars over Sakado, Japan, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Masahiro Ando’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aries
about 12° Aries at midday
An Aries Sun starts things. For Masahiro Ando that points to energy that is direct and impatient with delay, and to feeling most like themselves when there is something to go first at. The work of this placement is finishing what the spark began.
Moon sign
Scorpio
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Masahiro that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Sakado, Japan, at each hour of the day.
Masahiro Ando’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Masahiro yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 2 April 1972, computed for Sakado, Japan.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:15 | Sagittarius rising |
| 00:15 to 02:15 | Capricorn rising |
| 02:15 to 03:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 03:45 to 05:00 | Pisces rising |
| 05:00 to 06:20 | Aries rising |
| 06:20 to 07:50 | Taurus rising |
| 07:50 to 09:50 | Gemini rising |
| 09:50 to 12:10 | Cancer rising |
| 12:10 to 14:35 | Leo rising |
| 14:35 to 17:00 | Virgo rising |
| 17:00 to 19:25 | Libra rising |
| 19:25 to 21:50 | Scorpio rising |
| 21:50 to 24:00 | Sagittarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 2 April 1972, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 12° Aries 28' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Scorpio |
| Mercury | 9° Aries 31'℞ |
| Venus | 28° Taurus 09' |
| Mars | 3° Gemini 52' |
| Jupiter | 7° Capricorn 30' |
| Saturn | 2° Gemini 52' |
| Uranus | 16° Libra 27'℞ |
| Neptune | 5° Sagittarius 04'℞ |
| Pluto | 0° Libra 23'℞ |
| North Node | 2° Aquarius 17' |
| South Node | 2° Leo 17' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Masahiro Ando’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Masahiro Ando’s private life.
With the Sun in Aries, Masahiro Ando's sense of purpose tends to come alive when there is a clear start line. They probably feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though that energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. The typical pattern is a project launched with excitement, then handed off once the routine sets in.
For Masahiro, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
Mercury in Aries suggests that Masahiro thinks in quick, decisive strokes and says what they mean without much preamble. Sometimes the words arrive before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It is a mind that finishes other people's sentences and prefers a fast decision to a long meeting.
Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in Masahiro's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.
With Mars in Gemini, Masahiro is likely to act through words, argument and quick manoeuvring rather than force, and anger to come out sharp and verbal. Arguments can be won without the conflict underneath ever being resolved. A disagreement can still be under debate long after the other person just wants it to end.
Jupiter in Capricorn
7° Capricorn 30' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Masahiro would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Masahiro that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
Uranus in Libra
16° Libra 27' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Masahiro holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Neptune in Sagittarius
5° Sagittarius 04' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Masahiro in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
0° Libra 23' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Masahiro belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Aspects in Masahiro Ando’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mars conjunction Saturn
about 1.0° at midday
With Mars conjunct Saturn, drive is disciplined and controlled, and Masahiro Ando is likely to channel energy into long, patient effort in place of short bursts. It makes them capable of sustained work. The risk is that caution talks them out of acting when the moment calls for it.
Mars opposition Neptune
about 1.2° at midday
Masahiro may find direct action pulling one way and, the other way, a tendency to lose momentum in doubt or in an unclear picture of what is wanted. Getting specific about the goal, even roughly, tends to restore the energy that vagueness drains.
Mercury square Jupiter
about 2.0° at midday
Thinking can run ahead of the evidence when Mercury is square Jupiter, leading to overconfident claims or promises made faster than Masahiro can check them. Matching enthusiasm to what has been verified makes their confidence more durable, not less.
Saturn opposition Neptune
about 2.2° at midday
Grounded, practical planning sits opposite a tendency towards doubt, or disillusionment about whether the effort is worth it, and Masahiro is likely to know both. Checking in with the original inspiration, and not only with the workload, tends to restore the balance.
Venus trine Pluto
about 2.2° at midday
With Venus trine Pluto, affection and the capacity for change tend to strengthen each other in Masahiro's chart, the kind of pairing that gives relationships staying power through hard times. Depth can arrive here without constant upheaval, and that is rarer, and more durable, than the intensity some people mistake for closeness.
Saturn trine Pluto
about 2.5° at midday
Discipline and the capacity for transformation work together under Saturn trine Pluto, so Masahiro can rebuild after a setback with a strength that outlasts the difficulty. Such endurance is quiet and formidable, and other people tend to notice it only in hindsight, once the hard period has passed.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 3.0°
- Mars trine Plutoabout 3.5°
- Sun opposition Uranusabout 4.0°
- Mercury trine Neptuneabout 4.5°
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 4.7°
- Venus conjunction Saturnabout 4.7°
- Sun square Jupiterabout 5.0°
- Venus conjunction Marsabout 5.7°
- Venus opposition Neptuneabout 6.9°
- Mercury opposition Uranusabout 6.9°
- Sun trine Neptuneabout 7.4°
Aries Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Masahiro Ando
Also born on 2 April
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet.
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