Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone (born April 28, 1984, Concord, United States), aged 42, is an American novelist. Gladstone's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Novella.
Max Gladstone’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Max
Max Gladstone’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 308th in 1984, the year of this birth, with 632 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on X (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Max apart
Max Gladstone took the BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction in 2019, at 35.
Training came by way of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and Yale University.
Wikipedia's editors put Max Gladstone under Aurora Award-winning writers, Nebula Award winners and American fantasy writers.
Penélope Cruz (1974) and Kurt Gödel (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and Yale University
- Instruments
- violin
- Awards
- Nebula Award for Best Novella (2020), Ignyte Award for Best Novella (2020) and Hugo Award for Best Novella (2020)
- Nominated for
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and Locus Award for Best Anthology
- Sport
- martial arts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
Max, according to the stars
Core essence
Max is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Max is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Max runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Max needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Max wants to be loved
Max wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Max creates
How Max makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Max creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Max is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Max 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Max runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Max Gladstone
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Concord on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Concord that night
Computed for 42.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Concord at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 11.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Concord on any night.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Max's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Max Gladstone's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Max Gladstone was born on April 28, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Max Gladstone's birth date, April 28, 1984, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Max’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Max Gladstone's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Max Gladstone combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Max’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Aries 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
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.4° to 0.5° orb
Max’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Max’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.6° to 3.3° orb
Max’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.2° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.5° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn4.3° to 5.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.9° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.7° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Max’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 1°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 16°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 3°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°22′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.6°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.8°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.9°
Max’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Max’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.7°
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Max’s cards
Computed from April 28, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16203004 (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 Henry Söderlund, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max Gladstone at Wikipedia, maxgladstone.com, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Max Gladstone.
Quick answers about Max Gladstone’s chart
- How old is Max Gladstone?
- Max Gladstone is 42 years old, born April 28, 1984 in Concord, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Max Gladstone?
- Max Gladstone is a Taurus: born April 28, 1984, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Max Gladstone's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1984 birth.
- What is Max Gladstone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Max Gladstone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Max Gladstone's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Max Gladstone's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
