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Sergey Ponomarev

Sergey Ponomarev (born December 11, 1980, Moscow, Russia), aged 45, is a Russian photojournalist (1980-). Ponomarev's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Sergey Ponomarev’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Sergey Ponomarev’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Sergey in the U.S.?

#8137

US rank in 2025

~488

Americans share it since 1991

2000

its peak year

Sergey is in US records from 1991, but 1980 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2000.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sergey’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

1

Soul Urge · independence

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Sergey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Sergey apart

Naguib Mahfouz (1911) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Sergey, according to the stars

Core essence

Sergey is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Sergey 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.

How Sergey wants to be loved

Sergey 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 Sergey even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Sergey creates

How Sergey makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Sergey creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Sergey is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sergey is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Sergey does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Sergey's birth date. Working below.

Where Sergey sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Sergey

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sergey

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Sergey

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sergey

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Sergey

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sergey

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Sergey’s birth-night reference starRuchbahwhite · CassiopeiaRuchbah, in Cassiopeia. A white star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Ruchbah →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 57.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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.

Overhead at Moscow at 9 p.m. that evening: Ruchbah of Cassiopeia, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

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

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Moscow at all: they sit past the −34.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 17% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.

How unusual Sergey's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No retrogrades at all

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

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Sergey Ponomarev's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 11, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Sergey Ponomarev was born on December 11, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Sergey Ponomarev's birth date, December 11, 1980, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Sergey’s chart

Sergey’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 19°29′☉19°Moon in Aquarius · 3°28′☽3°Mercury in Sagittarius · 8°29′☿8°Venus in Scorpio · 21°26′♀21°Mars in Capricorn · 14°46′♂14°Jupiter in Libra · 7°27′♃7°Saturn in Libra · 8°30′♄8°Uranus in Scorpio · 27°17′♅27°Neptune in Sagittarius · 22°17′♆22°Pluto in Libra · 23°43′♇23°

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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Sergey’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.3° to 1.8° orb

    Sergey’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Sergey’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn5.9° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Sergey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 26°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 22°18′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°17′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Neptune 0.0°
  • Chiron trine Mars 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Ceres square Pluto 2.7°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.8°

Sergey’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Sergey’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Sun quintile Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°

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Sergey’s cards

Computed from December 11, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sergey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4371992 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sergey Ponomarev.

Quick answers about Sergey Ponomarev’s chart

How old is Sergey Ponomarev?
Sergey Ponomarev is 45 years old, born December 11, 1980 in Moscow, Russia.
What zodiac sign is Sergey Ponomarev?
Sergey Ponomarev is a Sagittarius: born December 11, 1980, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Sergey Ponomarev's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 11, 1980 birth.
What is Sergey Ponomarev's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Sergey Ponomarev's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sergey Ponomarev's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sergey Ponomarev's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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