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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rat, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Max’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Max Gladstone, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Aries 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.
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
Max’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.9° to 3.4° orb
Max’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.9° to 4.9° orb
Max’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.5° orb
Max’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionSaturn4.3° to 5.4° orb
Max’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineNeptune4.9° to 6.2° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 1°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Max turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 16°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Max looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 3°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Max is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°22′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Max is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Max is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Max is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Max Gladstone, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Max’s cards
Every card is computed from April 28, 1984, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Max Gladstone, 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 Q16203004, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
- 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 time was Max Gladstone 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 Max Gladstone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 28, 1984 birth date.
- What is Max Gladstone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 28, 1984 birth date.
- 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.
