Jacob Tsimerman
Jacob Tsimerman (born April 26, 1988, Kazan, Russia), aged 38, is a Canadian mathematician (born 1988). Tsimerman's honours include Fields medal, Ribenboim Prize and SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
Jacob Tsimerman’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Jacob
Jacob Tsimerman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jacob in the U.S.?
#43
US rank in 2025
~990,532
Americans share it since 1880
1998
its peak year
Jacob ranked 28th among boys and 1,665th among girls in 1988, the year of this birth, with 15,883 American boys and 78 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jacob’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on B (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jacob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
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 1988, 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 Jacob apart
Jacob Tsimerman took the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2015, at 27.
Princeton University shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Jacob Tsimerman under Mathematicians of the University of Toronto, Soviet emigrants to Israel and OpenAI people.
Melania Trump (1970) and Arno Allan Penzias (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Awards
- Fields medal (2026), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2015) and Fellow of the Royal Society (2025)
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Jacob, according to the stars
Core essence
Jacob is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jacob is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Jacob wants to be loved
Jacob wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jacob like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Jacob creates
How Jacob makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Jacob 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: Jacob is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Jacob is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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. Jacob 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 Jacob's birth date. Working below.
Where Jacob sits
Six lines
Jacob’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 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.
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 Jacob Tsimerman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kazan 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 Kazan that night
Computed for 55.79°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Merak stood nearest the zenith over Kazan at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 55.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 75% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
How unusual Jacob's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Mars · No Fire planets
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Jacob Tsimerman's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1988, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonBorn for the big room.
Jacob Tsimerman was born on April 26, 1988, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Jacob Tsimerman's birth date, April 26, 1988, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Jacob’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacob Tsimerman's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jacob Tsimerman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Jacob’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.0° orb
Jacob’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
Jacob’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.1° to 0.4° orb
Jacob’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.5° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.8° to 1.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.9° to 2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableMarssquarePluto1.3° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter1.7° to 2.1° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Jacob’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 25°15′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 13°24′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 7°49′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 29°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.5°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.9°
Jacob’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
7 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jacob’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 onto Mars · Jupiter, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Mars · Sun, Pluto, MarsAn 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on April 26
- Melania Trump1970
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- Channing Tatum1980
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Jacob’s cards
Computed from April 26, 1988. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
2 · Diplomat♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jacob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21823077 (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 Simons Foundation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jacob Tsimerman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jacob Tsimerman.
Quick answers about Jacob Tsimerman’s chart
- How old is Jacob Tsimerman?
- Jacob Tsimerman is 38 years old, born April 26, 1988 in Kazan, Russia.
- What zodiac sign is Jacob Tsimerman?
- Jacob Tsimerman is a Taurus: born April 26, 1988, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Jacob Tsimerman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1988 birth.
- What is Jacob Tsimerman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jacob Tsimerman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jacob Tsimerman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jacob Tsimerman's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
