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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Horse, with 
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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.
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Americans share it since 1880
2009
its peak year
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Max’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Max sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Max Born in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth 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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Water Horse
Water HorseBright, restless, warm.
Max Born was born on December 11, 1882, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Max Born's birth date, December 11, 1882, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Max’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Max Born's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Max Born combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Max’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Max Born, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Sagittarius or 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.
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
Max’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
Max’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 5.5° orb
Max’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareUranus3.6° to 4.4° orb
Max’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareUranus4.0° to 4.1° orb
Max’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.1° orb
Max’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrinePluto5.7° orb
Max’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.6° orb
Max’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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 24°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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 Max building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 11°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Max is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 16°07′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Max is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°25′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Max carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Max that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 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°
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°).
Max’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Max is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Max’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.
Stellium 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 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 quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Max Born, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Max’s cards
Every card is computed from December 11, 1882, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Max Born, 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
Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q58978, 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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max Born at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- 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 time was Max Born 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 was Max Born's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 11, 1882 birth date.
- What was Max Born's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 11, 1882 birth date.
- 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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