Max Planck
Max Planck (born April 23, 1858, Kiel, Germany; died 1947), was a German theoretical physicist. Planck is best remembered for Planck's law and Planck constant. Planck's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and Max Planck Medal.
Max Planck’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Max Planck’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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Max’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
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 is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Max needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Max wants to be loved
Max wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Max is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Max creates
How Max makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Max creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Max is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Max Planck's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1858, 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.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Max Planck was born on April 23, 1858, which falls in a Earth 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 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Max Planck's birth date, April 23, 1858, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Max’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Max Planck's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Max Planck combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Max’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Max Planck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Virgo 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb
Max’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Max’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.1° to 0.3° orb
Max’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
Max’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.3° to 1.5° orb
Max’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Max’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.6° to 3.5° orb
Max’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.6° orb
Max’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.9° orb
Max’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.8° to 5.5° orb
Max’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.2° to 5.4° orb
Max’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.4° orb
Max’s affections and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 17°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Max making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 25°09′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Max is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAries 5°47′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Max is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°30′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Max is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Max leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 conjunction Jupiter 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron square Venus 0.4°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.3°
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. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 4 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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, 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 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.
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Max Planck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Max’s cards
Every card is computed from April 23, 1858, 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 Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Max Planck, 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 Q9021, 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 Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max Planck 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 Planck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Max Planck?
- Max Planck was a Taurus: born April 23, 1858, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Max Planck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1858 birth.
- What time was Max Planck 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 Planck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 23, 1858 birth date.
- What was Max Planck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1858 birth date.
- Where was Max Planck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Max Planck's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
