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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Max
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.
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 name records start in 1880, 1 years after this birth. In that first year Max ranked 230th, with 52 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Max’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
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 record
What sets Max apart
John Lennon (1940) and Boris Nemtsov (1959) 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 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. 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 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.
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 von Laue
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Koblenz 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 Koblenz that night
Computed for 50.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Koblenz at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 12.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
At 50.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 38% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.
How unusual Max's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
6 planets retrograde · Venus retrograde
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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
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
stableVenustrinePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.3° to 7.1° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 12°34′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 21°47′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°10′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Max’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Max’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Max’s cards
Computed from October 9, 1879. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57067 (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 Franz Schmelhaus, Zürich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max von Laue at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Max von Laue.
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.
- 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 was Max von Laue's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Max von Laue's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
