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Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog (born July 23, 1906, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; died 1998), was a Bosnian-Swiss chemist. Prelog's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Davy Medal and Marcel Benoist Prize.

Vladimir Prelog’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

Your match with Vladimir

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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

US records hold Vladimir from 1913 onward, though not for 1906 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2016 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Vladimir’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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

1 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

—

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Your planetary stone, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1906, 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

Vladimir Prelog took the Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1962, at 56.

III Gymnasium Osijek and Czech Technical University in Prague shaped the training.

The grave is at Mirogoj Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Vladimir Prelog under Bosnia and Herzegovina scientists, Croats in Austria-Hungary and Croatian Nobel laureates.

Haile Selassie I (1892) and Daniel Radcliffe (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
III Gymnasium Osijek and Czech Technical University in Prague
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975), Davy Medal (1967) and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1962)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Buried at
Mirogoj Cemetery
Citizenship
Switzerland and Austria-Hungary
Languages
Slovene and Croatian
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Vladimir, according to the stars

The vibe

Underneath, Vladimir needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Vladimir needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Vladimir wants to be loved

Vladimir wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Vladimir and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Vladimir creates

How Vladimir 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. Vladimir 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: 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Vladimir is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Vladimir leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Vladimir does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Vladimir's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Vladimir Prelog

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

Vladimir’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 81.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Sarajevo that night

Computed for 43.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Sarajevo at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.3° above the horizon in Draco.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sarajevo at all: they sit past the −46.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 14° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The death is recorded at Zurich, Zurich District in 1998.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Vladimir Prelog: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Vladimir's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 planet at a critical degree

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

Cancer or Leo Sun

Vladimir Prelog was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Fire Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Vladimir Prelog was born on July 23, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Vladimir Prelog's birth date, July 23, 1906, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 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 15° to 28° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.3° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.4° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.6° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Cancer · 29°40′☉29°Moon in Leo · 22°10′☽22°Mercury in Leo · 24°32′☿24°Venus in Virgo · 8°37′♀8°Mars in Cancer · 27°20′♂27°Jupiter in Gemini · 28°26′♃28°Saturn in Pisces · 14°27′ · retrograde♄℞14°Uranus in Capricorn · 5°33′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Cancer · 10°52′♆10°Pluto in Gemini · 23°06′♇23°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.2° to 1.7° orb

    Vladimir’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune1.7° to 2.8° orb

    Vladimir’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars2.2° to 2.5° orb

    Vladimir’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.4° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.0° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 10°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 2°18′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 29°07′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 16°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.5°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 2.6°

Vladimir’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Vladimir’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.3°

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Vladimir’s cards

Computed from July 23, 1906. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

1 · Pioneer
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Vladimir’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83501 (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 ETH Zürich, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Vladimir Prelog 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 Prelog.

Quick answers about Vladimir Prelog’s chart

What zodiac sign was Vladimir Prelog?
Vladimir Prelog was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What was Vladimir Prelog's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1906 birth.
What was Vladimir Prelog's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Vladimir Prelog's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Vladimir Prelog's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Vladimir Prelog's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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