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Max Strus

Max Strus (born March 28, 1996, Hickory Hills, United States), aged 30, is an American basketball player (born 1996). Strus has played for Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics and DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball.

Max Strus’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Max Strus’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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

Of the names registered in 1996, Max came 208th among boys and 8,599th among girls, carried by 1,489 American boys and 10 girls.

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

11 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets Max apart

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) and Amancio Ortega (1936) 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Max is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

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 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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Max is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Max gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Max

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Max

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Max

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Max

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Max

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Max

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hickory Hills on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Max’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 27.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hickory Hills that night

Computed for 41.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hickory Hills at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 8.0° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at first quarter, 69% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.

How unusual Max's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · A bowl chart

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.

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Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Max Strus's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 28, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Max Strus was born on March 28, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Max Strus's birth date, March 28, 1996, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Max’s chart

Max’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.7° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.8° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Aries · 8°20′☉8°Moon in Cancer · 26°43′☽26°Mercury in Aries · 8°47′☿8°Venus in Taurus · 24°12′♀24°Mars in Aries · 3°12′♂3°Jupiter in Capricorn · 15°36′♃15°Saturn in Pisces · 28°50′♄28°Uranus in Aquarius · 3°54′♅3°Neptune in Capricorn · 27°29′♆27°Pluto in Sagittarius · 2°58′ · retrograde♇℞2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Max’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.0° to 6.7° orb

    Max’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Max’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.3° to 1.1° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus4.0° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.8° to 6.8° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.9° to 5.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Max’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 11°24′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 15°21′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 20°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 21°54′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 2.6°

Max’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Max’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.2°

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Max’s cards

Computed from March 28, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q65952023 (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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Max Strus at Wikipedia and Instagram.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Max Strus.

Quick answers about Max Strus’s chart

How old is Max Strus?
Max Strus is 30 years old, born March 28, 1996 in Hickory Hills, United States.
What zodiac sign is Max Strus?
Max Strus is an Aries: born March 28, 1996, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Max Strus's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 28, 1996 birth.
How tall is Max Strus?
Max Strus is 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Max Strus's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Max Strus's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Max Strus's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Max Strus's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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