Wood Three Cycle | Life Palace in Dog
Body Palace 身宮: Sun 太陽
Who the chart describes
The Life Palace 命宮 sits in Dog 戌 and holds Giant Gate 巨門 in a Trapped position, with Yang Blade 擎羊 and Right Assistant 右弼. Classically this is the 'jade hidden in stone' pattern: a sharp, analytical mind whose value is not obvious on the surface. Giant Gate rules the mouth, language and misunderstanding, and Yonezu's public record matches. He has spoken about difficulty with communication and social interaction. He describes himself as someone who works best alone, and he is described as reserved, exacting and uncomfortable with celebrity culture. Yang Blade adds a cutting edge to that exactness. The blade turns on the self as readily as on the work.
But Transform Wealth 化祿 lands directly on Giant Gate, and that changes the story. The star of friction becomes a source of income and reward, provided the speech is shaped first. Right Assistant 右弼 supplies quiet allies. This is how a solitary teenager uploading Vocaloid songs as Hachi in 2009 became an artist whose lyrics reach arenas. The words are turned into melody, image and video, and the mouth is bypassed in the process.
The Body Palace 身宮 falls in the Wealth Palace 財帛宮 (Horse 午), with Sun 太陽 (Exalted), Literary Prosperity 文昌 and Heavenly Leader 天魁. Sun carries Transform Power 化權, authority, and Literary Prosperity carries Transform Obstruction 化忌, obstruction. So the body of his life is about command over output. He holds composition, lyrics, artwork and video in his own hands, and he is never quite finished with them. A note on method: his birth hour is inferred, not recorded, so the Life Palace reading is an interpretation. It fits the documented life closely.
Read the evidence for Kenshi Yonezu's chart palace by palace below.
Reading the life through the chart
The Trapped Star That Pays
Life Palace 命宮, with Giant Gate 巨門, Yang Blade 擎羊 and Right Assistant 右弼
Giant Gate 巨門 trapped is the classical signature of a person who is eloquent inside and awkward outside. The record supports this. Yonezu has spoken openly about finding social interaction difficult. His middle-school-to-high-school band reportedly ended in creative differences. His first audience was online, where he could be heard without having to be present.
Transform Wealth 化祿 on this star is what turned the isolation into a method. In 2009 he began releasing original Vocaloid music as Hachi, with 'Matryoshka' and 'Panda Hero', and built a large Nico Nico audience through self-made songs, art and videos. A synthesized voice carried his words for him until 2012, when he released *diorama* in his own voice. Yang Blade 擎羊 shows in the exactness of that process. It also shows in the cost of the shift in identity from Hachi to Kenshi Yonezu.
The pattern held after fame. 'Lemon' in 2018, written for the drama *Unnatural*, became a landmark hit. The speech that Giant Gate makes hard became the thing the public pays for.
Command and Perfectionism in One Palace
Wealth Palace 財帛宮, with Sun 太陽, Literary Prosperity 文昌 and Heavenly Leader 天魁
The Body Palace sits here, so money and output are the vehicle of his sense of self. Sun 太陽 is Exalted and carries Transform Power 化權. This is authority exercised in public view, and it matches the unusual breadth of his work as vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer, illustrator and video creator. Heavenly Leader 天魁 adds a noble helper's touch. He has been able to step into major commissions, such as 'Peace Sign' for *My Hero Academia* in 2017 and 'Kick Back' for *Chainsaw Man* in 2022, without surrendering control of the result.
The same palace holds Literary Prosperity 文昌 with Transform Obstruction 化忌. The star of polished writing is marked by obstruction, which classically produces an author who can never quite approve the draft. Profiles describe him as perfectionistic and exacting about creative work. In 2010 or so he left the Osaka College of Art and Design after roughly a year, finding the course unsatisfying. The standard he held was his own, not an institution's.
The lesson of this palace is that his wealth comes from authorship, meaning full ownership of the artefact. The obstruction lies in the editing, not in the earning.
Collaboration as the Engine of Recognition
Spouse Palace 夫妻宮, with Celestial Mechanism 天機, Moon 太陰, Literary Arts 文曲, Spinning Top 陀羅 and Red Phoenix 紅鸞
The Spouse Palace 夫妻宮 speaks of partnership of every kind. His romantic life is not publicly established, and nothing here is read as a claim about it. What the record documents is a career of partnerships. Celestial Mechanism 天機 and Moon 太陰 are both Prosperous in Monkey 申, and Transform Fame 化科, the transformation of recognition, falls on Literary Arts 文曲 in this palace. Recognition tends to arrive through what he makes with and for others.
The evidence is a chain of commissions and collaborations. 'Santa Maria' in 2013 was his major-label debut. *Bremen* earned the Excellent Album Award at the 57th Japan Record Awards in 2015. In 2019 he wrote and produced 'Machigai Sagashi' with Masaki Suda. Each of these placed his craft inside someone else's frame, a label, an awards body, a fellow artist, and the frame returned acclaim.
Spinning Top 陀羅 adds a slow, grinding friction to any shared work. It fits his reported preference to control as much of a project as he can. Collaboration pays him, but on terms he sets with care.
A World That Comes to Him
Travel Palace 遷移宮, with Celestial Unity 天同 and Left Assistant 左輔
The Travel Palace 遷移宮 sits in Dragon 辰 and reads how the outside world meets him. Celestial Unity 天同 is Trapped here, and Left Assistant 左輔 offers help. Classically this is a gentle star in a difficult seat: comfort comes with effort, and the world's help is real but not loud. Yonezu's pattern matches. He is described as someone of limited media exposure whose image of mystery draws the world toward his music.
The external reach has come largely through the work travelling ahead of the man. 'Kick Back' became a major international hit in 2022, and in 2023 he contributed 'LADY' to a Coca-Cola campaign while his international audience kept growing. In October 2026 Sony Music announced the KENSHI YONEZU 2026–2027 WORLD TOUR / GHOST, his largest to date, spanning Asia, North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. In October 2026 'Peace Sign' also received RIAA Gold certification in the United States.
The reserved man behind the work now goes to the world in person. Left Assistant is the quiet helper that makes that crossing possible.
The Treasury Decade of Stewardship
Children Palace 子女宮, with Celestial Treasury 天府 and Earthly Void 地空
The Children Palace 子女宮 governs creative output, legacy and protégés, and since 2023 it has been the palace of his ten-year cycle. Celestial Treasury 天府 is the star of storehouses. It favours consolidation, custodianship and managing what has already been earned over scrambling for new ground. His record now fits that frame. He keeps supplying music to anime, film and commercial projects, including work tied to *The Boy and the Heron* in 2023 and, according to entertainment databases, *Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc* in 2025.
Earthly Void 地空 sits in the same palace, and it keeps the stewardship from becoming mere repetition. It pulls toward emptying and restarting, in line with the way he has already reinvented himself from Hachi to a performer under his own name.
The decade's culmination so far is the October 2026 announcement of the world tour GHOST, following a Japanese arena run of 14 performances in six cities from November 6 to December 17, 2026. A body of work that began in a bedroom is now being carried across continents.
Palace Readings
The 12-palace system maps every area of life. Here are the five key palaces for Kenshi Yonezu.
Decade cycles 大限
Each ten-year cycle is governed by one palace. These are Kenshi Yonezu's decades so far, with ages counted the traditional way.
Ages 3–12, 1993–2002
Life Palace 命宮, ruled by Giant Gate 巨門
He grew up in Tokushima, in a family of four that included an older sister. He is reported to have had a father in a computer-related field and a mother with an art-education background. He developed an early interest in drawing, music and visual expression.
Giant Gate 巨門 in the Life Palace shows a child whose first language was image and sound rather than conversation. Transform Wealth 化祿 on the star planted the early drive to express through making. The Trapped brightness fits the quiet, inward temperament he later described.
Ages 13–22, 2003–2012
Siblings Palace 兄弟宮, ruled by Purple Star 紫微 and Greedy Wolf 貪狼
He played in a band from about middle-school age through high school, reportedly with creative differences. He attended Tokushima Commercial High School and then moved to Osaka for the Osaka College of Art and Design, leaving after about a year. In 2009 he began releasing Vocaloid music as Hachi ('Matryoshka', 'Panda Hero'), and in 2012 he released *diorama* in his own voice.
The Siblings Palace 兄弟宮 holds Purple Star 紫微 (Neutral) and Greedy Wolf 貪狼 (Trapped) with Wealth Preservation 祿存, the pattern of peers who do not quite fit and of a hunger turned inward. The band friction and the move to online solo work follow from that. Wealth Preservation shows a talent that sustained itself once he stopped relying on peers.
Ages 23–32, 2013–2022
Spouse Palace 夫妻宮, ruled by Celestial Mechanism 天機 and Moon 太陰
He made his major-label debut with 'Santa Maria' in 2013 and released *Yankee* (2014), *Bremen* (2015, Excellent Album Award at the 57th Japan Record Awards) and *Bootleg* (2016). 'Peace Sign' (2017) and 'Lemon' (2018) followed, then 'Machigai Sagashi' with Masaki Suda (2019), *Stray Sheep* (2020), and 'Kick Back' and 'M八七' in 2022.
The Spouse Palace 夫妻宮, with Celestial Mechanism 天機 and Moon 太陰 (both Prosperous) and Transform Fame 化科 on Literary Arts 文曲, is the palace of partnership. His breakthrough decade ran through commissions and collaborations, each one returning recognition. Spinning Top 陀羅 reflects the slow, exacting labour behind each release.
Ages 33–42, 2023–2032 (the current decade)
Children Palace 子女宮, ruled by Celestial Treasury 天府
In 2023 he contributed 'LADY' to a Coca-Cola campaign, and his music was connected to *The Boy and the Heron*. In 2025 he worked on music tied to *Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc*. In October 2026 Sony Music announced the KENSHI YONEZU 2026–2027 WORLD TOUR / GHOST, and 'Peace Sign' received RIAA Gold certification.
Celestial Treasury 天府 in the Children Palace 子女宮 makes this a decade of stewardship, in which the work becomes a body of legacy to be managed and carried outward. Earthly Void 地空 keeps him from simply repeating himself. The world tour, his largest to date, is the decade's first public statement of that custodianship.
The 2027 chart: the Fire Goat year 丁未
The Fire Goat year runs Feb 6, 2027 to Jan 25, 2028, lunar new year to lunar new year. This is how it lands on the natal chart above, at traditional age 37.
- Year palace 流年命宮
- Children Palace 子女宮, ruled by Celestial Treasury 天府
- Decade cycle in force 大限
- Ages 33–42 (2023–2032): Children Palace 子女宮, ruled by Celestial Treasury 天府
| Transformation | Star | Lands in |
|---|---|---|
| Transform Wealth 化祿 | Moon 太陰 | Spouse Palace 夫妻宮 |
| Transform Power 化權 | Celestial Unity 天同 | Travel Palace 遷移宮 |
| Transform Fame 化科 | Celestial Mechanism 天機 | Spouse Palace 夫妻宮 |
| Transform Obstruction 化忌 | Giant Gate 巨門 | Life Palace 命宮 |
Fortune Forecast
20272027, season by season
Each lunar month activates one palace of the natal chart. Lunar months start at the new moon, so they don't line up with calendar months.
Tour stamina, then consolidation
Lunar Months 1–3, Feb 6 – May 5, 2027
Lunar Month 1 (Feb 6 – Mar 7) opens in the Health Palace 疾厄宮, where trapped Military Music 武曲 and Breaker of Armies 破軍 meet Fire Star 火星 and Celestial Horse 天馬: motion, heat and wear. It coincides with the tour's run through Los Angeles, Mexico City, Newark, Toronto, London, Paris and Amsterdam, so this is a test of constitution and stamina rather than of songs. Lunar Month 2 (Mar 8 – Apr 6) moves into the Wealth Palace 財帛宮 and Sun 太陽, his natal seat of command, where the tour's accounts are settled and the next plans take shape. Lunar Month 3 (Apr 7 – May 5) lands on the year palace itself, Celestial Treasury 天府: consolidation, rest and the storing of what was made.
Month 1, Health Palace 疾厄宮; Month 2, Wealth Palace 財帛宮; Month 3, Children Palace 子女宮
Partnership blessed, then pressure
Lunar Months 4–6, May 6 – Aug 1, 2027
Lunar Month 4 (May 6 – Jun 4) is the year's brightest square. The Spouse Palace 夫妻宮 holds Celestial Mechanism 天機 and Moon 太陰, which carry this year's Transform Fame 化科 and Transform Wealth 化祿. Collaboration, arrangement and quiet recognition favour him, though Spinning Top 陀羅 slows the pace. Lunar Month 5 (Jun 5 – Jul 3) turns to the Siblings Palace 兄弟宮, where Purple Star 紫微 and trapped Greedy Wolf 貪狼 stir peers, rivals and appetite, while Wealth Preservation 祿存 argues for restraint. Lunar Month 6 (Jul 4 – Aug 1) is the Life Palace 命宮 itself, where Transform Obstruction 化忌 sits on Giant Gate 巨門. Guard words, sign nothing hastily and let the work speak.
Month 4, Spouse Palace 夫妻宮; Month 5, Siblings Palace 兄弟宮; Month 6, Life Palace 命宮
Paperwork, inner weather, foundations
Lunar Months 7–9, Aug 2 – Oct 28, 2027
Lunar Month 7 (Aug 2 – Aug 31) enters the Parents Palace 父母宮 and Celestial Minister 天相, the palace of documents, seniors and institutions. It favours clean paperwork with the institutions behind him. Lunar Month 8 (Sep 1 – Sep 29) moves to the Fortune Palace 福德宮, where Celestial Beam 天梁 and Peach Blossom 桃花 turn attention inward to mental weather, taste and the private pleasures that feed the work. Lunar Month 9 (Sep 30 – Oct 28) reaches the Property Palace 田宅宮, the same square as this year's minor period 小限, with Pure Virtue 廉貞 and Seven Killings 七殺. Expect decisive work on the home base, the studio and what he holds, done with a hard, exacting hand.
Month 7, Parents Palace 父母宮; Month 8, Fortune Palace 福德宮; Month 9, Property Palace 田宅宮
Goodwill, leakage, the road returns
Lunar Months 10–12, Oct 29 – Jan 25, 2028
Lunar Month 10 (Oct 29 – Nov 27) falls in the Career Palace 官祿宮, which has no major star 無正曜 but holds Bell Star 鈴星, Heavenly Seal 天鉞 and Celestial Joy 天喜. Advancement comes through timing and goodwill, not a single commanding move. Lunar Month 11 (Nov 28 – Dec 27) sits in the Friends Palace 交友宮, also without a major star and with Earthly Robbery 地劫. Audiences and allies are real, but energy leaks, so he should choose his circles carefully. Lunar Month 12 (Dec 28 – Jan 25, 2028) returns to the Travel Palace 遷移宮 and Celestial Unity 天同, which carries this year's Transform Power 化權, and the road calls again. Nothing is announced beyond February 2027, so watch for the next touring chapter.
Month 10, Career Palace 官祿宮; Month 11, Friends Palace 交友宮; Month 12, Travel Palace 遷移宮
What to watch for in 2027
4 calls for Kenshi Yonezu, made before the year begins. We'll check them when the Fire Goat year ends on Jan 25, 2028.
All seven 2027 dates of the WORLD TOUR / GHOST, from Los Angeles on February 6 to Amsterdam on February 28, go ahead as scheduled.
When: Lunar Months 1–3 (Feb 6 – May 5, 2027). Chart basis: Transform Power 化權 on Celestial Unity 天同 in the Travel Palace 遷移宮.
Yonezu releases a new original single written for a screen production.
When: Lunar Months 4–6 (May 6 – Aug 1, 2027). Chart basis: Transform Wealth 化祿 and Transform Fame 化科 both in the Spouse Palace 夫妻宮.
No new full-length studio album is released in 2027, and any new music arrives as singles.
When: Lunar Months 10–12 (Oct 29 – Jan 25, 2028). Chart basis: Transform Obstruction 化忌 on Giant Gate 巨門; Earthly Void 地空 in year palace.
Additional overseas tour dates beyond the 2026–2027 run are announced before the year ends.
When: Lunar Months 10–12 (Oct 29 – Jan 25, 2028). Chart basis: Transform Power 化權 on Celestial Unity 天同; monthly return to Travel Palace 遷移宮.
Kenshi Yonezu has never publicly confirmed their birth time — this Purple Star analysis ran all 12 possible birth charts and identifies Hour 5 (Dragon 辰, 7:00–9:00 AM) as the configuration whose palace readings best match their documented life trajectory.
Future Outlook
Stewarding the Vault
The decade stays in the Children Palace 子女宮 with Celestial Treasury 天府, favouring consolidation of the catalogue, a steadier rhythm and the shaping of a lasting body of work. Earthly Void 地空 keeps pushing him toward strange, unconventional forms rather than repetition. Protégés and collaborators matter more here than new territory.
Command Over the Whole
Ages 43–52 move into the Wealth Palace 財帛宮, his Body Palace 身宮, with Sun 太陽 carrying natal Transform Power 化權 and Literary Prosperity 文昌 carrying Transform Obstruction 化忌. Authority over how his work is owned, priced and presented grows, along with the exacting perfectionism that has always priced it. Heavenly Leader 天魁 here points to help from senior figures.
The verdict
Kenshi Yonezu's chart makes a paradox of the mouth: the star of suspicion pays him because he shapes it alone. In 2027 Transform Obstruction 化忌 lands on that very star, so the year asks him to protect the process that made 'Lemon' while the world watches him on the road. The Travel Palace 遷移宮 gives him authority on the arena stage, and the Spouse Palace 夫妻宮 offers allies he has seldom trusted. The year rewards composed work, few words and a door left slightly open. It punishes the improvised remark and the contract signed in haste.
Why we ran all 12 hours: Kenshi Yonezu's birth hour has never been publicly confirmed. In Purple Star Astrology, the birth hour determines the Life Palace and shapes the entire chart. We generated all 12 possible charts — one per two-hour window — and identified Hour 5 (Dragon 辰, 7:00–9:00 AM) as the configuration whose palace readings best match the documented trajectory of Kenshi Yonezu's career, wealth, relationships, and public challenges. Unsure of your own birth hour? Read what Purple Star Astrology does without a birth time.
Kenshi Yonezu's birth time is not on public record, so the hour is inferred: we computed all 12 possible charts for 10 Mar 1991 and chose Dragon 辰 (7:00–9:00 AM) as the one whose palaces best fit the documented life. Every star cited comes from that computed chart. The 2027 forecast overlays the Fire Goat year 丁未 (Feb 6, 2027 – Jan 25, 2028) — its year palace, the decade cycle in force, and the year's Four Transformations — on the natal chart. Ages are counted the traditional way (虛歲), so a decade can begin a year earlier than a Western birthday count suggests.
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