Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol (born September 9, 1935, Tel Aviv, Israel; died 2023), was an Israeli actor. Topol's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and Israel Prize.
Chaim Topol’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Chaim
Chaim Topol’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Chaim in the U.S.?
#666
US rank in 2025
~12,078
Americans share it since 1942
2022
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Chaim falls under that line for 1935. Its peak came in 2022, and 12,078 Americans have carried it since 1942.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Chaim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on C (3) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 6: voice against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chaim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Chaim apart
The Kinor David came in 1964, when Chaim Topol was 29.
Chaim Topol was 22 when the work began in 1957.
Cause of death is recorded as Alzheimer's disease.
The family line: married Galia Topol and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia files Chaim Topol under Israeli male film actors, Jewish Israeli comedians and English-language Israeli singers.
Luka Modrić (1985) and Adam Sandler (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actor (1965), Kinor David (1964) and Israel Prize (2015)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1957
- Cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Languages
- English and Hebrew
- Wikipedia editions
- 44
What the chart says
Chaim, according to the stars
Core essence
Chaim notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Chaim is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Chaim wants to be loved
Chaim wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Chaim and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Chaim creates
How Chaim makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Chaim creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Chaim is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Chaim is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Chaim runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Chaim's birth date. Working below.
Where Chaim sits
Six lines
Chaim’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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Chaim Topol
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv that night
Computed for 32.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Tel Aviv at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
Tel Aviv sits at 32.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −57.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tel Aviv on any night.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 87% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Tel Aviv, Israel
The death is recorded at Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Chaim Topol: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Chaim's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Chaim Topol's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 9, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Chaim Topol was born on September 9, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Chaim Topol's birth date, September 9, 1935, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Chaim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chaim Topol's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Fire.
- Chaim Topol combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Chaim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Chaim’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 2.5° orb
Chaim’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
Chaim’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.3° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.7° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.2° to 14.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Chaim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°12′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 21°56′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 19°45′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 12°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Sun 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron square Venus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.3°
Chaim’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Chaim’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.9°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°
More people like Chaim
Other actors
- Jacques d'Amboise1934
- Kiyohiko Ichihara1936
- John Cazale1935
- Mary Tyler Moore1936
- Wilford Brimley1934
- Peter Boyle1935
Born in Israel
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- Netta BarzilaiIsraeli singer
- Bar RefaeliIsraeli model
- Natalie PortmanIsraeli-American actress
- Adam NeumannIsraeli-American entrepreneur
- Teddy SagiIsraeli businessperson
More charts like Chaim’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Luna MayaIndonesian actress, presenter and singer
- Jorge Paulo LemannSwiss-Brazilian banker and businessman
- Julia Nickson-SoulAmerican actress
Born in Pig years
- Charles McLean AndrewsAmerican historian
- Clarence PageAmerican journalist
- Ernst TochAustrian composer
Also born on September 9
- Luka Modrić1985
- Adam Sandler1966
- Hugh Grant1960
- Patrick Collison1988
- Dara1998
- Hans Georg Dehmelt1922
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Isaiah WashingtonAmerican actor (born 1963)
- Jordyn WoodsAfrican-American model and entrepreneur
- Kristi YamaguchiAmerican figure skater
Other Virgo Pig charts
- James SchamusAmerican filmmaker (born 1959)
- Seiji OzawaJapanese orchestra conductor
- Álex GrimaldoSpanish association football player (born 1995)
- David RayaSpanish association football player
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Frederick LoeweAustrian-American composer
- Oliver BaumannGerman footballer
- Kō ItakuraJapanese footballer (born 1997)
- Yūto NagatomoJapanese association football player (born 1986)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Charles J. PedersenAmerican organic chemist
- Georg von BékésyHungarian physicist
- Joseph L. GoldsteinAmerican biochemist
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Chaim’s cards
Computed from September 9, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chaim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319133 (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 Rob C. Croes / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chaim Topol at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Chaim Topol.
Quick answers about Chaim Topol’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Chaim Topol?
- Chaim Topol was a Virgo: born September 9, 1935, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Chaim Topol's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 9, 1935 birth.
- What was Chaim Topol's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Chaim Topol's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Chaim Topol's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Chaim Topol's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
