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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Alexander
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.
How common is the name Alexander in the U.S.?
#30
US rank in 2025
~740,668
Americans share it since 1880
1993
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,584 American boys and 9 girls named Alexander in 1916: 99th among boys and 3,039th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alexander’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Alexander apart
Giorgio Armani (1934) and Jafar Panahi (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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.
Computed from Alexander's birth date. Working below.
Where Alexander sits
Six lines
Alexander’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alexander Prokhorov
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Atherton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Atherton that night
Computed for 17.27°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Atherton was Dschubba, in Scorpius, 84.8° up.
Of the 73 catalog stars above the horizon, Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest.
Atherton sits at 17.3°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 81% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Alexander's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Cancer · Venus retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.3° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.6° to 7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 26°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 16°16′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 15°20′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 20°04′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Alexander’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Alexander’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on July 11
- Giorgio Armani1934
- Jafar Panahi1960
- Lil' Kim1974
- Lisa Rinna1963
- Joan Smalls1988
- Justin Chambers1970
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- Keegan MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
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- Brooks BarnhizerAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
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Alexander’s cards
Computed from July 11, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83552 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alexander Prokhorov at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexander Prokhorov.
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.
- 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 was Alexander Prokhorov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alexander Prokhorov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
