Ilya Frank
Ilya Frank (born October 23, 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russia; died 1990), was a Soviet physicist. Frank's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of the October Revolution and Order of Lenin.
Ilya Frank’s zodiac sign was Libra or Scorpio (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Earth Monkey, with 
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How common is the name Ilya in the U.S.?
#3153
US rank in 2025
~1,226
Americans share it since 1880
2018
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ilya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
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Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ilya, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Ilya cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Ilya needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Ilya wants to be loved
Ilya 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 Ilya and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ilya creates
How Ilya makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ilya 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: Ilya is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ilya is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ilya fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Ilya's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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The quick version
Libra or Scorpio Sun
Ilya Frank was born on a day when the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Ilya Frank was born on October 23, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Ilya Frank's birth date, October 23, 1908, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Ilya’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ilya Frank's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
Ilya’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ilya Frank, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Libra 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.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.2° orb
Ilya’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Ilya’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
Ilya’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.4° to 3.5° orb
Ilya’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.1° to 3.8° orb
Ilya’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineUranus3.2° to 4.3° orb
Ilya’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSuntrinePluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
Ilya’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.8° orb
Ilya’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareUranus4.6° to 5.2° orb
Ilya’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb
Ilya’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.7° to 6.6° orb
Ilya’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ilya’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 ℞Aquarius 18°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Ilya making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°39′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ilya is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°42′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Ilya attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°34′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Ilya is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Ilya exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Sun 3.0°
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°).
Ilya’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ilya is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Ilya’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ilya Frank, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Ilya’s cards
Every card is computed from October 23, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ilya Frank, 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
Ilya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192703, 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 Ilya Frank 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 Ilya Frank’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ilya Frank?
- Ilya Frank was born on a day when the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Ilya Frank's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 23, 1908 birth.
- What time was Ilya Frank 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 Ilya Frank's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the October 23, 1908 birth date.
- What was Ilya Frank's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 23, 1908 birth date.
- Where was Ilya Frank's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ilya Frank's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
