Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim Chmerkovskiy (born January 17, 1980, Odesa, Ukraine), aged 46, is an Ukrainian-American Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Goat, with 
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Maksim in the U.S.?
#2466
US rank in 2025
~2,678
Americans share it since 1880
2011
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maksim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Maksim apart
Zooey Deschanel shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Maksim, according to the stars
Core essence
Maksim is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Maksim is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Maksim is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Maksim needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Maksim wants to be loved
Maksim wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Maksim, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Maksim creates
How Maksim makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Maksim creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Maksim is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Maksim is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Maksim channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Maksim's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Maksim sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy was born on January 17, 1980, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy's birth date, January 17, 1980, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Maksim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maksim Chmerkovskiy's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Maksim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maksim Chmerkovskiy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Maksim’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.1° to 1.7° orb
Maksim’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Maksim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb
Maksim’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.3° to 2.9° orb
Maksim’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
Maksim’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.3° to 2.9° orb
Maksim’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.3° to 3.9° orb
Maksim’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunsquarePluto4.1° to 5.1° orb
Maksim’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb
Maksim’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.8° to 5.9° orb
Maksim’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareNeptune6.1° to 6.2° orb
Maksim’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Maksim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°08′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Maksim building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAries 12°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Maksim looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 26°27′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Maksim is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°06′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Maksim needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 21°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Maksim exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros sextile Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros opposition Saturn 0.5°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Maksim’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Maksim is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Maksim’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maksim Chmerkovskiy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Maksim’s family here
One relative of Maksim Chmerkovskiy also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Maksim
Zooey Deschanel was born on January 17, 1980 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Maksim’s cards
Every card is computed from January 17, 1980, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maksim Chmerkovskiy, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Maksim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2600142, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Albert Domasin from Los Angeles, united states, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maksim Chmerkovskiy at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s chart
- How old is Maksim Chmerkovskiy?
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy is 46 years old, born January 17, 1980 in Odesa, Ukraine.
- What zodiac sign is Maksim Chmerkovskiy?
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1980, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat.
- What is Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1980 birth.
- What time was Maksim Chmerkovskiy born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1980 birth date.
- What is Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1980 birth date.
- Where is Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maksim Chmerkovskiy's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
