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Vladimir Drinfeld

Vladimir Drinfeld (born February 14, 1954, Kharkiv, Ukraine), aged 72, is a Mathematician from the former Ukrainian SSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago. Drinfeld's honours include Fields medal, Shaw Prize and Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Vladimir Drinfeld’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Vladimir Drinfeld’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Scholar

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1836

US rank in 2025

~6,190

Americans share it since 1913

2016

its peak year

The SSA recorded 6 American boys named Vladimir in 1954: 3,807th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Vladimir’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.

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

Vladimir’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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 Vladimir apart

The Fields medal came in 1990, when Vladimir Drinfeld was 36.

Study took Vladimir Drinfeld to Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Vladimir Drinfeld was born to Gershon Drinfeld.

Wikipedia files Vladimir Drinfeld under Scientists from Kharkiv, Corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ukrainian Jews.

Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Awards
Fields medal (1990), Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2018) and Shaw Prize (2023)
Citizenship
United States and Ukraine
Languages
English and Russian
Wikipedia editions
32

What the chart says

Vladimir, according to the stars

Core essence

Vladimir is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Vladimir is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Vladimir is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Vladimir needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Vladimir wants to be loved

Vladimir wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Vladimir be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Vladimir creates

How Vladimir makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Vladimir 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: Vladimir is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Vladimir 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Vladimir has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Vladimir's birth date. Working below.

Where Vladimir sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Vladimir

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Vladimir

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

PrivateExpressive
Vladimir

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Vladimir

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

PracticalVisionary
Vladimir

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Vladimir

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Vladimir Drinfeld

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

Vladimir’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 84.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 81° 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 Kharkiv that night

Computed for 49.99°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Kharkiv at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 5.1° of the exact zenith.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Kharkiv sits at 50.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −40.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kharkiv on any night.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.

How unusual Vladimir's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth 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.

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The quick version

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Vladimir Drinfeld's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Vladimir Drinfeld was born on February 14, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Vladimir Drinfeld's birth date, February 14, 1954, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Vladimir’s chart

Vladimir’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.9° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.7° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.7° orbSun in Aquarius · 25°09′☉25°Moon in Cancer · 15°12′☽15°Mercury in Pisces · 13°15′☿13°Venus in Aquarius · 28°51′♀28°Mars in Sagittarius · 2°32′♂2°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°26′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°21′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 19°43′ · retrograde♅℞19°Neptune in Libra · 25°58′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 23°46′ · retrograde♇℞23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Vladimir’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Vladimir’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune2.2° to 3.5° orb

    Vladimir’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.3° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn3.4° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus6.0° to 7.0° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°58′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 13°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 23°39′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 18°38′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Pluto 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.1°
  • Chiron square Neptune 1.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.1°
  • Eros square Sun 1.5°

Vladimir’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Vladimir’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.1°

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Vladimir’s cards

Computed from February 14, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Vladimir’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q369561 (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.

The same Vladimir Drinfeld at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Vladimir Drinfeld.

Quick answers about Vladimir Drinfeld’s chart

How old is Vladimir Drinfeld?
Vladimir Drinfeld is 72 years old, born February 14, 1954 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
What zodiac sign is Vladimir Drinfeld?
Vladimir Drinfeld is an Aquarius: born February 14, 1954, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Vladimir Drinfeld's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1954 birth.
What is Vladimir Drinfeld's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Vladimir Drinfeld's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Vladimir Drinfeld's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Vladimir Drinfeld's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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