Vladimir Sorokin’s birth chart
Born 7 August 1955, in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Leo Sun · Moon in Pisces or Aries
Vladimir Sorokin’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Vladimir Sorokin was born in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia, on 7 August 1955, a Sunday. That makes Vladimir a Leo. The Moon left Pisces for Aries at about 18:00 local time, which leaves the Moon sign open without a birth time. Vladimir turns 71 in 2026. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Fire carries the most weight: six of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, against water two, air one and earth none. Fixed signs hold seven, cardinal signs two and mutable signs none. Leo holds a stellium, six planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Neptune and Pluto: a sextile, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Every planet was moving direct. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 7 August, among them Jimmy Wales, Charlize Theron and Yun Hyon-seok. Wayne Knight was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Vladimir was born: the stars over Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Vladimir Sorokin’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Leo
about 14° Leo at midday
A Leo Sun shines. For Vladimir Sorokin that suggests warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who they really are, running through much of what they do. This placement grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon sign
Pisces or Aries
Pisces until about 18:00, then Aries (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 18:00: Moon in Pisces
With the Moon in Pisces, Vladimir may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Born after about 18:00: Moon in Aries
With the Moon in Aries, Vladimir is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia, at each hour of the day.
Vladimir Sorokin’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Vladimir yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 7 August 1955, computed for Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:50 | Gemini rising |
| 00:50 to 03:30 | Cancer rising |
| 03:30 to 06:30 | Leo rising |
| 06:30 to 09:30 | Virgo rising |
| 09:30 to 12:30 | Libra rising |
| 12:30 to 15:30 | Scorpio rising |
| 15:30 to 18:05 | Sagittarius rising |
| 18:05 to 19:45 | Capricorn rising |
| 19:45 to 20:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 20:45 to 21:25 | Pisces rising |
| 21:25 to 22:10 | Aries rising |
| 22:10 to 23:05 | Taurus rising |
| 23:05 to 24:00 | Gemini rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 7 August 1955, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 14° Leo 05' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Pisces until about 18:00, then Aries |
| Mercury | 15° Leo 55' |
| Venus | 7° Leo 14' |
| Mars | 17° Leo 14' |
| Jupiter | 11° Leo 46' |
| Saturn | 14° Scorpio 47' |
| Uranus | 29° Cancer 00' |
| Neptune | 25° Libra 42' |
| Pluto | 26° Leo 03' |
| North Node | 25° Sagittarius 12' |
| South Node | 25° Gemini 12' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Vladimir Sorokin’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Vladimir Sorokin’s private life.
Purpose for Vladimir Sorokin is probably tied to creating and being seen doing it, and a Leo Sun's vitality rises the moment there is an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. The giveaway is often the extra effort that goes into something the moment someone notices them making it.
Moon in Pisces or Aries
Pisces until about 18:00, then Aries
needs and habits
Born before about 18:00: Moon in Pisces
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Vladimir more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
Born after about 18:00: Moon in Aries
The Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Vladimir, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
Mercury in Leo gives Vladimir a mind that thinks in confident, story-shaped terms and communicates with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. Attachment to being right can make Vladimir more persuasive than accurate. A simple update, in their hands, can become something closer to a performance.
Venus in Leo loves generously and openly, and values being someone's clear favourite above almost anything else on offer. For Vladimir, the tension this suggests is needing steady reassurance of still being adored. Their gestures tend to be grand and thoughtful, and it can sting when those go unnoticed.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Vladimir its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.
Jupiter in Leo
11° Leo 46' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Vladimir the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Vladimir letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Uranus in Cancer
29° Cancer 00' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Vladimir alone. Its mark is a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures the previous generation grew up inside. At the personal level it is read as a pull to build family life differently.
Neptune in Libra
25° Libra 42' at midday
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Vladimir among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Pluto in Leo
26° Leo 03' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Vladimir, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Vladimir Sorokin’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Sun square Saturn
about 0.7° at midday
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Vladimir Sorokin pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
Mercury square Saturn
about 1.1° at midday
Self-doubt can get into thinking when Mercury is square Saturn, in the form of over-editing or delaying a decision that was ready. Sharing the unfinished thought anyway, again and again, is what loosens the doubt's hold over what Vladimir is willing to say out loud.
Mercury conjunction Mars
about 1.3° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Mars, thinking and the drive to act are closely linked, so ideas turn into words and decisions almost immediately. It makes Vladimir quick and direct in conversation, and the discipline is letting a thought settle before saying it out loud.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 1.8° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Vladimir's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Sun conjunction Jupiter
about 2.3° at midday
Vladimir's identity carries a natural optimism and a generous sense of scale, so they tend to think bigger than the room requires. Confidence comes easily with the Sun conjunct Jupiter, and the discipline worth building is matching that optimism with follow-through.
Mars square Saturn
about 2.4° at midday
Vladimir's drive can meet resistance, from outside obstacles or from private doubt, and frustration builds when progress feels blocked. Under this square, every stretch of steady work done anyway turns that resistance into competence, the kind that is there when it is needed most.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 0.3°
- Jupiter square Saturnabout 3.0°
- Sun conjunction Marsabout 3.1°
- Uranus square Neptuneabout 3.3°
- Mercury conjunction Jupiterabout 4.1°
- Venus conjunction Jupiterabout 4.5°
- Mars conjunction Jupiterabout 5.5°
- Sun conjunction Venusabout 6.8°
Leo Suns born within 2 years of Vladimir Sorokin
Also born on 7 August
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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