Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever (born December 8, 1986, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), aged 39, is a Canadian-Israeli AI researcher.
Ilya Sutskever’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Ilya
Ilya Sutskever’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
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) × mutable 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 1986. 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on I (9) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, 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
The Fellow of the Royal Society came in 2022, when Ilya Sutskever was 36.
Study took Ilya Sutskever to Open University of Israel and Stanford University.
Lauren Parsekian shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Open University of Israel, Stanford University and University of Toronto
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2022)
- Citizenship
- Canada and Soviet Union
- Wikipedia editions
- 25
What the chart says
Ilya, according to the stars
Core essence
Ilya is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ilya is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Ilya is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Ilya needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Ilya wants to be loved
Ilya wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ilya even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ilya creates
How Ilya makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Ilya creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Ilya is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Ilya slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Ilya Sutskever
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nizhny Novgorod 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 Nizhny Novgorod that night
Computed for 56.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Nizhny Novgorod at 9 p.m. that evening: Miram of Perseus, within 6.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Nizhny Novgorod sits at 56.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −33.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Nizhny Novgorod on any night.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 55% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Lives in
- Mountain View
Wikidata records Mountain View as Ilya Sutskever's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ilya Sutskever: 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
63 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Ilya Sutskever's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Ilya Sutskever was born on December 8, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Ilya Sutskever's birth date, December 8, 1986, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Ilya’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ilya Sutskever's date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ilya Sutskever combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Ilya’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Pisces 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.6° orb
Ilya’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableMarstrinePluto0.1° to 0.7° orb
Ilya’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Ilya’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.9° to 1.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.8° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.7° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Ilya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 18°46′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°18′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 27°12′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 27°30′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Sun 2.8°
Ilya’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Ilya’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Saturn, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
Born the same day as Ilya
Lauren Parsekian was born on December 8, 1986 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Nizhny Novgorod, at 56.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Tiger years
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- Sam OkuayinonuAmerican football player (born 1998)
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Also born on December 8
- Jim Morrison1943
- Nicki Minaj1982
- Sinéad O'Connor1966
- Ian Somerhalder1978
- Sammy Davis Jr.1925
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Terry PegulaAmerican businessman (born 1951)
- Nathan KirshSwazi businessman
- Richard KinderAmerican businessman
Other Sagittarius Tiger charts
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- Ed HarrisAmerican actor and director (born 1950)
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Other Radiant Storytellers
- Malik WashingtonAmerican football player
- Marvin MimsAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Quinn MeinerzAmerican football player (born 1998)
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From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Ilya’s cards
Computed from December 8, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ilya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21712134 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ilya Sutskever.
Quick answers about Ilya Sutskever’s chart
- How old is Ilya Sutskever?
- Ilya Sutskever is 39 years old, born December 8, 1986 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
- What zodiac sign is Ilya Sutskever?
- Ilya Sutskever is a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1986, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Ilya Sutskever's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1986 birth.
- What is Ilya Sutskever's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ilya Sutskever's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ilya Sutskever's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ilya Sutskever's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
