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Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres (born August 2, 1923, Višnieva, Belarus; died 2016), was an Israeli politician, former President and Prime Minister of Israel. Peres held office as Minister of Transport and Road Safety and Deputy Minister of Defense. Peres's honours include Commander of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Shimon Peres’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Shimon Peres’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#963

US rank in 2025

~5,492

Americans share it since 1947

2024

its peak year

US records hold Shimon from 1947 onward, though not for 1923 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2024 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Shimon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

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

Shimon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Shimon apart

JD Vance (1984) and Isabel Allende (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Shimon, according to the stars

Core essence

Shimon is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Shimon is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Shimon runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Shimon needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Shimon wants to be loved

Shimon wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Shimon gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Shimon creates

How Shimon 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. Shimon 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: Shimon is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Shimon is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Shimon fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Shimon's birth date. Working below.

Where Shimon sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Shimon

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Shimon

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Shimon

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Shimon

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Shimon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Shimon

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Shimon Peres

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

Shimon’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 87.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 10.3° 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 Višnieva that night

Computed for 54.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Višnieva at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

Višnieva sits at 54.1°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −35.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 69% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.

How unusual Shimon's chart is

Chart pattern score

84 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Leo · Yod onto Uranus · Grand trine

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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Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Shimon Peres's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 2, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Shimon Peres was born on August 2, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Shimon Peres's birth date, August 2, 1923, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Shimon’s chart

Shimon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Leo · 9°05′☉9°Moon in Aries · 13°05′☽13°Mercury in Leo · 20°43′☿20°Venus in Cancer · 28°26′♀28°Mars in Leo · 11°08′♂11°Jupiter in Scorpio · 10°04′♃10°Saturn in Libra · 15°05′♄15°Uranus in Pisces · 16°56′ · retrograde♅℞16°Neptune in Leo · 17°34′♆17°Pluto in Cancer · 11°27′♇11°

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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Shimon’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.8° to 1.3° orb

    Shimon’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° orb

    Shimon’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars1.9° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.7° to 4.2° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.1° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 21°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 6°52′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 22°47′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 14°20′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 2.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.9°

Shimon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Shimon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Saturn, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars biquintile Uranus 0.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.9°

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Shimon’s cards

Computed from August 2, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Shimon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57410 (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 Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Shimon Peres at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Shimon Peres.

Quick answers about Shimon Peres’s chart

What zodiac sign was Shimon Peres?
Shimon Peres was a Leo: born August 2, 1923, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Shimon Peres's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 2, 1923 birth.
What was Shimon Peres's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Shimon Peres's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Shimon Peres's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Shimon Peres's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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