Novelist & translator

Haruki Murakami

Japanese novelist of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and a translator of Fitzgerald and Carver into Japanese. Born in Kyoto.

Born1949-01-12, Kyoto, JapanA Wednesday
At birthSun in Capricorn, Moon in Gemini

Birth Chart

1949-01-12, Kyoto, Japan · time unknown, noon chart

Asia/Tokyothe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunCapricorn21°35′Direct
MoonGemini15°09′Direct
MercuryAquarius8°49′Direct
VenusSagittarius28°26′Direct
MarsAquarius5°48′Direct
JupiterCapricorn12°56′Direct
SaturnVirgo5°35′Retrograde
UranusGemini27°36′Retrograde
NeptuneLibra15°10′Direct
PlutoLeo15°54′Retrograde

This is Haruki Murakami's chart for 1949-01-12, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Haruki Murakami is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Haruki Murakami was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.

The birth time is unknown, so this map is cast for noon. The SHAPE of it is right and the whole pattern slides east or west with the real time, so treat the longitudes as approximate.

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Ring, where you were bornTap a line for what it meansZoom with the buttons · full screen to pinch, drag and rotate

Ten planets on four angles is forty lines, which is more than the interactive tool opens with on purpose. Draw your own map to choose which planets to show.

Charts are computed from real planetary positions (Swiss Ephemeris) for the recorded moment and place. Recorded times can carry small uncertainties; treat house and ascendant placements accordingly.