Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck (born August 29, 1862, Ghent, Belgium; died 1949), was a Belgian playwright and essayist. Maeterlinck is best remembered for Alladine and Palomides, The Treasure of the Humble and The Death of Tintagiles. Maeterlinck's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.
Maurice Maeterlinck’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Maurice
Maurice Maeterlinck’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Maurice in the U.S.?
#1020
US rank in 2025
~138,943
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The earliest American count for Maurice is 1880, 18 years on: 146th, 93 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maurice’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maurice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Maurice apart
Michael Jackson (1958) and Liam Payne (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Maurice, according to the stars
Core essence
Maurice notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Maurice is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Maurice wants to be loved
Maurice wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Maurice openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Maurice creates
How Maurice makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Maurice creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Maurice is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Maurice 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Maurice gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Maurice's birth date. Working below.
Where Maurice sits
Six lines
Maurice’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Ghent that night
Computed for 51.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ghent was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 83.4° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Ghent sits at 51.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ghent on any night.
The Moon, 23% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Maurice's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · No Water 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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Maurice Maeterlinck's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 1862, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Dog
Water DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Maurice Maeterlinck was born on August 29, 1862, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Maurice Maeterlinck's birth date, August 29, 1862, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Maurice’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maurice Maeterlinck's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Water signs in this chart.
- Maurice Maeterlinck combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Maurice’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquarePluto0.9° to 2.1° orb
Maurice’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
Maurice’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.2° to 2.4° orb
Maurice’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrinePluto3.0° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.3° to 6.0° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 1.4° to 15.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.9° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrineNeptuneorb from 6.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Maurice’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 4°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°11′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 4°21′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 25°39′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.2°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.3°
Maurice’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Maurice’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°
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- Michael Jackson1958
- Liam Payne1993
- Lea Michele1986
- Brian Chesky1981
- Pierpaolo Piccioli1967
- John McCain1936
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- RivelinoBrazilian association football player and manager
- Isla FisherAustralian actress and author
Other Virgo Dog charts
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- Queen Rania of JordanQueen Consort of Jordan
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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Maurice’s cards
Computed from August 29, 1862. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maurice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49747 (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 Gerschel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Maurice Maeterlinck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maurice Maeterlinck?
- Maurice Maeterlinck was a Virgo: born August 29, 1862, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Maurice Maeterlinck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 29, 1862 birth.
- What was Maurice Maeterlinck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Maurice Maeterlinck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Maurice Maeterlinck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maurice Maeterlinck's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
