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Efim Zelmanov

Efim Zelmanov (born September 7, 1955, Khabarovsk, Russia), aged 71, is a Russian-american mathematician. Zelmanov is best known for Burnside's problem. Zelmanov's honours include Fields medal, honorary doctorate of the University of Oviedo and honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta.

Efim Zelmanov’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Efim Zelmanov’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

What Efim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on E (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Efim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

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

The record

What sets Efim apart

Evan Rachel Wood (1987) and Ariarne Titmus (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Efim, according to the stars

Core essence

Efim 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 Efim is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Efim is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Efim needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Efim wants to be loved

Efim 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 Efim and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Efim creates

How Efim makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Efim creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Efim is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Efim 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Efim 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 Efim's birth date. Working below.

Where Efim sits

Six lines

Efim’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Efim

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Efim

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Efim

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Efim

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Efim

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Efim

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Efim Zelmanov

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Khabarovsk on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Efim’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 82.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 19.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Khabarovsk that night

Computed for 48.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Khabarovsk was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 82.3° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

From 48.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Khabarovsk at all: they sit past the −41.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 71% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.

How unusual Efim's chart is

Chart pattern score

75 / 100 · Rare

A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Jupiter

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.

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Efim Zelmanov's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Efim Zelmanov was born on September 7, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Efim Zelmanov's birth date, September 7, 1955, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Efim’s chart

Efim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Moon · Trine, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 1° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun in Virgo · 13°41′☉13°Moon in Taurus · 14°13′☽14°Mercury in Libra · 7°50′☿7°Venus in Virgo · 15°15′♀15°Mars in Virgo · 6°47′♂6°Jupiter in Leo · 18°24′♃18°Saturn in Scorpio · 16°26′♄16°Uranus in Leo · 0°41′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 26°25′♆26°Pluto in Leo · 27°03′♇27°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.6° to 1.8° orb

    Efim’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

    Efim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.4° to 1.7° orb

    Efim’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars6.7° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.7° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Efim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 19°22′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 1°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.0°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.3°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.9°

Efim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Efim’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.

  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.0°

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Efim’s cards

Computed from September 7, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Efim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q334054 (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 Gert Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Efim Zelmanov at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Efim Zelmanov.

Quick answers about Efim Zelmanov’s chart

How old is Efim Zelmanov?
Efim Zelmanov is 71 years old, born September 7, 1955 in Khabarovsk, Russia.
What zodiac sign is Efim Zelmanov?
Efim Zelmanov is a Virgo: born September 7, 1955, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Efim Zelmanov's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1955 birth.
What is Efim Zelmanov's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Efim Zelmanov's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Efim Zelmanov's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Efim Zelmanov's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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