Alexander Prokhorov
Alexander Prokhorov (born July 11, 1916, Atherton, Australia; died 2002), was a Soviet and Russian physicist. Prokhorov served as editor-in-chief. Prokhorov's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Lenin and Lenin Prize.
Alexander Prokhorov’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Alexander Prokhorov’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Alexander, according to the stars
Core essence
Alexander feels the room before entering it. The core of Alexander is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Alexander, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Alexander feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Alexander needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Alexander wants to be loved
Alexander wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Alexander gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Alexander creates
How Alexander makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Alexander creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Alexander is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Alexander is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Alexander channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Alexander Prokhorov's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 11, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Alexander Prokhorov was born on July 11, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Alexander Prokhorov's birth date, July 11, 1916, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Alexander’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alexander Prokhorov's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alexander Prokhorov combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Alexander’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alexander Prokhorov, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
Alexander’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.9° to 2.5° orb
Alexander’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Alexander’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
Alexander’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.5° orb
Alexander’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.2° orb
Alexander’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
Alexander’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileMars4.3° to 4.7° orb
Alexander’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.6° to 7.8° orb
Alexander’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Alexander’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 26°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Alexander absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 16°16′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Alexander is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosTaurus 15°20′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Alexander wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 20°04′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Alexander is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Alexander guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.1°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Alexander’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Alexander is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Alexander’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alexander Prokhorov, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alexander’s cards
Every card is computed from July 11, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alexander Prokhorov, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83552, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alexander Prokhorov at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Alexander Prokhorov’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alexander Prokhorov?
- Alexander Prokhorov was a Cancer: born July 11, 1916, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Alexander Prokhorov's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 11, 1916 birth.
- What time was Alexander Prokhorov born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Alexander Prokhorov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 11, 1916 birth date.
- What was Alexander Prokhorov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 11, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Alexander Prokhorov's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alexander Prokhorov's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
