Max von Laue
Max von Laue (born October 9, 1879, Koblenz, Germany; died 1960), was a German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi. Laue is best remembered for Laue equations and X-ray. Laue's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal and Max Planck Medal.
Max von Laue’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Max von Laue’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
2009
its peak year
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Max’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Max is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Max wants to be loved
Max wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Max and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Max is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Max is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Max's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Max von Laue's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1879, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Max von Laue was born on October 9, 1879, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Max von Laue's birth date, October 9, 1879, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Max’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Max von Laue's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Max von Laue combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Max’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Max von Laue, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Max’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.1° to 2.8° orb
Max’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.3° orb
Max’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Max’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrinePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
Max’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.7° to 4.8° orb
Max’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.3° to 7.1° orb
Max’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineMars5.4° to 5.6° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupitersquarePluto6.4° orb
Max’s growth grinds against their depths.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Max building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 12°34′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Max is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCancer 21°47′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Max is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°10′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Max feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Max is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.0°
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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 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.
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Max von Laue, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Max’s cards
Every card is computed from October 9, 1879, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Max von Laue, 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 Q57067, 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 Franz Schmelhaus, Zürich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max von Laue at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 von Laue’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Max von Laue?
- Max von Laue was a Libra: born October 9, 1879, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- What was Max von Laue's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1879 birth.
- What time was Max von Laue 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 von Laue's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 9, 1879 birth date.
- What was Max von Laue's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 9, 1879 birth date.
- Where was Max von Laue's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Max von Laue's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
