Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (born April 10, 1929, Lund, Sweden; died 2020), was a Swedish-French actor. Sydow's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, Donostia Award and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Max von Sydow’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Max von Sydow’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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~168,577
Americans share it since 1880
2009
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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 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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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 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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Max does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Max's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Max von Sydow's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 10, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Max von Sydow was born on April 10, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Max von Sydow's birth date, April 10, 1929, 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 Sydow's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Max von Sydow 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 Sydow, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.5° orb
Max’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
Max’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.7° orb
Max’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° to 2.2° orb
Max’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.8° to 4.8° orb
Max’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.3° orb
Max’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquarePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
Max’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.4° to 5.3° orb
Max’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.7° to 5.1° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus4.9° to 5.3° orb
Max’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineNeptune6.4° to 6.8° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°32′ (moves 0.06° 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.
⚳ CeresAries 22°00′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Max looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosGemini 13°31′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Max is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Max needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°27′ (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.
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.9°
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. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Max is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Aries · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Max von Sydow, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on April 10
- Sadio Mané1992
- Omar Sharif1932
- Roberto Carlos1973
- Charlie Hunnam1980
- Aliko Dangote1957
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- Daniel GilliesCanadian-born New Zealand actor
- Allison JanneyAmerican actress (born 1959)
- Ellie KemperAmerican actress
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- Joe SurvantAmerican Kentucky poet laureate (1942- )
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- Giorgio ArmaniItalian fashion designer
- Katherine JohnsonAfrican-American mathematician
- Paul RuddAmerican actor
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Max’s cards
Every card is computed from April 10, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Max von Sydow, 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 Q203215, 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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max von Sydow at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 von Sydow’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Max von Sydow?
- Max von Sydow was an Aries: born April 10, 1929, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- What was Max von Sydow's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 10, 1929 birth.
- What time was Max von Sydow 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.
- How tall was Max von Sydow?
- Max von Sydow was 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Max von Sydow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 10, 1929 birth date.
- What was Max von Sydow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 10, 1929 birth date.
- Where was Max von Sydow's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Max von Sydow's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
