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Max Born

Max Born (born December 11, 1882, Wrocław, Poland; died 1970), was a German-Jewish physicist and mathematician. Born is best remembered for probability amplitude and Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Born's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Max Planck Medal.

Max Born’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

Your match with Max

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Max Born’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#180

US rank in 2025

~168,577

Americans share it since 1880

2009

its peak year

Max ranked 182nd in 1882, the year of this birth, with 74 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Max’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

33

Expression · lifting other people

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on M (4) and closes on X (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Max’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Max apart

Naguib Mahfouz (1911) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Max, according to the stars

Core essence

Max is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Max is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Max wants to be loved

Max wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Max and watch them fall for you again.

How Max creates

How Max makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Max builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Max 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Max is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Max 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 Max's birth date. Working below.

Where Max sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Max

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Max

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Max

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Max

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Max

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Max

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Max’s birth-night reference starMiramwarm orange · PerseusMiram, in Perseus. A warm orange star, 83.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Miram →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 59.8° 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 Wrocław that night

Computed for 51.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wrocław was Miram, in Perseus, 83.1° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 51.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Wrocław at all: they sit past the −38.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.

How unusual Max's chart is

Chart pattern score

74 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde

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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Max Born in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Max Born's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 11, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Max Born was born on December 11, 1882, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Max Born's birth date, December 11, 1882, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Max’s chart

Max’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.1° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.8° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.2° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.9° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 4° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.1° orbSun in Sagittarius · 19°21′☉19°Moon in Sagittarius · 29°07′☽29°Mercury in Sagittarius · 16°09′☿16°Venus in Sagittarius · 11°42′ · retrograde♀℞11°Mars in Sagittarius · 19°14′♂19°Jupiter in Gemini · 27°17′ · retrograde♃℞27°Saturn in Taurus · 20°41′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Virgo · 23°13′♅23°Neptune in Taurus · 16°35′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Taurus · 28°55′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Max’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb

    Max’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.7° to 3.5° orb

    Max’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.6° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.1° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.7° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 24°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 11°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 16°07′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°25′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.0°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.2°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Uranus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.5°

Max’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    6 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Max’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.

  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°

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Max’s cards

Computed from December 11, 1882. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q58978 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Max Born at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Max Born.

Quick answers about Max Born’s chart

What zodiac sign was Max Born?
Max Born was a Sagittarius: born December 11, 1882, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Max Born's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 11, 1882 birth.
What was Max Born's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Max Born's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Max Born's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Max Born's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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