Max Perutz
Max Perutz (born May 19, 1914, Vienna, Austria; died 2002), was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist. Perutz is best remembered for Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. Perutz's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal and Wilhelm Exner Medal.
Max Perutz’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Max
Max Perutz’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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
The SSA recorded 1,159 American boys and 6 girls named Max in 1914: 99th among boys and 3,475th among girls for the year.
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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on X (6).
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
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Max apart
Malcolm X (1925) and Sam Smith (1992) 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 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.
How Max wants to be loved
Max wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Max like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Max creates
How Max 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. Max 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: Max is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Max is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Max fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Perutz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night
Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vienna was Alioth, in Ursa Major, 81.8° up.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 48.2°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 Vienna at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 24% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
How unusual Max's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Max Perutz's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 19, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Max Perutz was born on May 19, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Max Perutz's birth date, May 19, 1914, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Max’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Max Perutz's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Max Perutz combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Max’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Pisces or 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
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.2° orb
Max’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.2° to 2.1° orb
Max’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.0° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Max’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°34′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 13°18′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.0°
- Ceres square Sun 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.5°
Max’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Max’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Max’s cards
Computed from May 19, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q78480 (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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max Perutz at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Max Perutz.
Quick answers about Max Perutz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Max Perutz?
- Max Perutz was a Taurus: born May 19, 1914, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Max Perutz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 19, 1914 birth.
- What was Max Perutz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Max Perutz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Max Perutz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Max Perutz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
