Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945, Tel Aviv, Israel), aged 81, is an Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945). Perlman is best known for Schindler's List. Perlman's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grammy Award for Best Classical Album and Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra).
Itzhak Perlman’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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Itzhak Perlman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
Itzhak’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Itzhak, according to the stars
Core essence
Itzhak 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 Itzhak is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Itzhak processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Itzhak needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Itzhak wants to be loved
Itzhak wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Itzhak openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Itzhak creates
How Itzhak makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Itzhak creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Itzhak is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Itzhak is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Itzhak scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Itzhak's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Itzhak sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Itzhak Perlman's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Itzhak Perlman was born on August 31, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Itzhak Perlman's birth date, August 31, 1945, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Itzhak’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Itzhak Perlman's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Itzhak Perlman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Itzhak’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Itzhak Perlman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Gemini 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.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Itzhak’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextileMars3.2° to 3.7° orb
Itzhak’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileNeptune3.6° to 4.7° orb
Itzhak’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.8° to 4.0° orb
Itzhak’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileUranus4.8° to 4.9° orb
Itzhak’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.6° to 6.0° orb
Itzhak’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.4° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 5.1° to 18.7° depending on birth time
possibleMarsconjunctionUranusorb from 7.9° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Itzhak’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.
⚷ ChironLibra 4°45′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Itzhak is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 11°33′ (moves 0.33° 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. Itzhak is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosScorpio 9°49′ (moves 0.63° 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. Itzhak is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 7°34′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Itzhak is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Itzhak is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres square Pluto 0.9°
- Eros square Pluto 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.4°
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°).
Itzhak’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Itzhak is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Itzhak’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.
- Sun quintile Mars 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Itzhak Perlman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Itzhak’s cards
Every card is computed from August 31, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Itzhak Perlman, 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
Itzhak’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215905, 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 Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Itzhak Perlman at Wikipedia, itzhakperlman.com, IMDb 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 Itzhak Perlman.
Quick answers about Itzhak Perlman’s chart
- How old is Itzhak Perlman?
- Itzhak Perlman is 81 years old, born August 31, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- What zodiac sign is Itzhak Perlman?
- Itzhak Perlman is a Virgo: born August 31, 1945, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- What is Itzhak Perlman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1945 birth.
- What time was Itzhak Perlman 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 is Itzhak Perlman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1945 birth date.
- What is Itzhak Perlman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1945 birth date.
- Where is Itzhak Perlman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Itzhak Perlman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
