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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, Chinese zodiac was 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 1961

2018

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Ilya falls under that line for 1917. Its peak came in 2018, and 1,226 Americans have carried it since 1961.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ilya’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on I (9) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.

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

Ilya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1916, 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 Ilya apart

Ilya Prigogine took the Francqui Prize in 1955, at 38.

The classrooms behind this chart: Université libre de Bruxelles.

Wikipedia's editors put Ilya Prigogine under Belgian physical chemists, Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Belgium and Academic staff of the Free University of Brussels (1834 to 1969).

Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1978) and Virginia Woolf (1882) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Université libre de Bruxelles
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1977), Rumford Medal (1976) and Francqui Prize (1955)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
Citizenship
Russian Empire and Belgium
Languages
French, English and Russian
Wikipedia editions
77

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. Working below.

Where Ilya sits

Six lines

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

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
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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 →

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

The sky over Moscow that night

Computed for 55.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Moscow was Capella, in Auriga, 80.1° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.

From 55.8°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −34.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Moscow on any night.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 9% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Moscow, Russia

The death is recorded at Brussels metropolitan area, Belgium in 2003.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ilya Prigogine: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Ilya's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet

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

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.

What Aquarius means →

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.

What the Snake means →

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.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Ilya’s chart

Ilya’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.7° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.5° to 7.7° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 23°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Ilya’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Ilya’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

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Ilya’s cards

Computed from January 25, 1917. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ilya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183509 (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 Unknown (Keystone - US), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ilya Prigogine at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Ilya Prigogine's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Ilya Prigogine's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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