Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British writer, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. His most famous novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were both adapted into highly acclaimed films. His novels are often melancholy with no sense of resolution, his characters’ mourning a past they can only accept but never put right.
Born 8 November 1954 in Nagasaki, he came across to the UK when he was 6 with his Oceanographer father on what the family thought was a temporary assignment, but never left. He does have an intense and downbeat Sun Saturn conjunction in Scorpio square Mars in Aquarius, so will have experienced unfairness, unkindness and grief growing up. He also has a more upbeat, lucky, inventive Jupiter Uranus in Cancer square Neptune Mercury in Libra; and a passionate Venus in Scorpio square Pluto. A soulful, complicated man.
His creative 5th and 7th harmonics, his genius 13th and writers 21st harmonic are all strongly aspected.
Tr Uranus is square his Uranus Jupiter conjunction at the moment bringing luck and surprise. He admitted to thinking initially it might be a hoax. He looks if anything slightly unnerved by the experience over coming months, though getting a confidence boost from December and through 2018/19.