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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Max
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.
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
The SSA recorded 1,336 American boys and 13 girls named Max in 1929: 128th among boys and 2,532nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Max’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on X (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 6: craft against care.
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 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Max apart
The Swedish Academy's Theatre Award came in 1968, when Max von Sydow was 39.
The schooling ran through Dramatens elevskola and Katedralskolan.
Max von Sydow was 19 when the work began in 1948.
Max von Sydow was born to Maria Margareta, Friherrinna Rappe and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, married Christina Olin and Catherine Brelet and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Max von Sydow under Best Director Guldbagge Award winners, French male video game actors and Male actors from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Sadio Mané (1992) and Omar Sharif (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Dramatens elevskola and Katedralskolan
- Awards
- Donostia Award (2006), European Film Award for Best Actor (1988) and Guldbagge Award for Best Director (1988)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1948
- Citizenship
- Sweden and France
- Languages
- French, German and Italian
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
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. 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 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.
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 Sydow
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lund 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 Lund that night
Computed for 55.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lund was Merak, in Ursa Major, 82.9° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 55.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lund at all: they sit past the −34.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lund, Sweden
- Lived in
- Paris
Wikidata records Paris as Max von Sydow's home, against Lund as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Seillans, arrondissement of Draguignan in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Max von Sydow: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Max's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Grand trine · No Air planets
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableMercurysquarePluto2.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.4° to 5.3° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.7° to 5.1° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.9° to 5.3° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune6.4° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°00′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 13°31′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 20°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.9°
Max’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Max’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
More people like Max
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Born in Sweden
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- Ingvar KampradSwedish business magnate
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More charts like Max’s
Fellow Aries suns
- José EchegaraySpanish playwright
- Reinhard GenzelGerman astronomer
- Peter DebyeDutch-American physicist and physical chemist
Born in Snake years
- Cao FeiChinese sculptor and installation artist
- Vegetta777Spanish YouTuber and influencer
- Nancy SilvertonAmerican baker
Also born on April 10
- Sadio Mané1992
- Omar Sharif1932
- Roberto Carlos1973
- Charlie Hunnam1980
- Aliko Dangote1957
- Dolores Huerta1930
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Daniel GilliesCanadian-born New Zealand actor
- Allison JanneyAmerican actress (born 1959)
- Ellie KemperAmerican actress
Other Aries Snake charts
- Tyler KolekAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jalen WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- David PortnoyAmerican internet entrepreneur and celebrity
- Jason OppenheimAmerican real estate broker, attorney, influencer and reality TV personality
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Barbara W. TuchmanAmerican historian and author
- Joe SurvantAmerican Kentucky poet laureate (1942- )
- Andrew Motionpoet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)
- Connie WillisAmerican science fiction writer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- 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
Computed from April 10, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q203215 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Max von Sydow.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Max von Sydow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
