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Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine (born January 25, 1917, Moscow, Russia; died 2003), was a Russian-Belgian physical chemist. Prigogine's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Friendship and Commander of the Legion of Honour.

Ilya Prigogine’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Ilya Prigogine’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Scholar

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

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Ilya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Ilya, according to the stars

Core essence

Ilya is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ilya is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Ilya wants to be loved

Ilya wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ilya you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Ilya creates

How Ilya makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ilya creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Ilya is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ilya 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ilya goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Ilya's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Ilya sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Ilya

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ilya

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ilya

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ilya

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

PracticalVisionary
Ilya

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ilya

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ilya Prigogine

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

Ilya’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 80.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 32.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Ilya Prigogine's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 25, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Fire Snake

Says less than it knows.

Ilya Prigogine was born on January 25, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Ilya Prigogine's birth date, January 25, 1917, 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 Ilya’s chart

Ilya’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ilya Prigogine, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.8° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 5.8° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 6° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 6.4° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 6.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 4°52′☉4°Moon in Pisces · 4°16′☽4°Mercury in Capricorn · 21°44′ · retrograde☿℞21°Venus in Capricorn · 12°25′♀12°Mars in Aquarius · 12°29′♂12°Jupiter in Aries · 27°31′♃27°Saturn in Cancer · 26°31′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Aquarius · 18°51′♅18°Neptune in Leo · 3°28′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Cancer · 2°47′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Ilya’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn0.9° to 1.1° orb

    Ilya’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.4° to 5.1° orb

    Ilya’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.3° to 6.2° orb

    Ilya’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb

    Ilya’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.7° orb

    Ilya’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb

    Ilya’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.5° to 7.7° orb

    Ilya’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.3° to 15.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareJupiterorb from 6.9° to 7.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 23°03′ (moves 0.04° 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 Ilya absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 21°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ilya caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 4°34′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Ilya is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 5°42′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ilya is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Ilya is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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 square Sun 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 0.6°
  • Eros square Neptune 1.1°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.9°

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. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Ilya is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.1°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ilya Prigogine, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Ilya’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Ilya Prigogine, 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 Q183509, 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 Unknown (Keystone - US), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ilya Prigogine at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ilya Prigogine.

Quick answers about Ilya Prigogine’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ilya Prigogine?
Ilya Prigogine was an Aquarius: born January 25, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
What was Ilya Prigogine's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 25, 1917 birth.
What time was Ilya Prigogine 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 Prigogine's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 25, 1917 birth date.
What was Ilya Prigogine's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 25, 1917 birth date.
Where was Ilya Prigogine's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ilya Prigogine's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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