Maxim Kontsevich
Maxim Kontsevich (born August 25, 1964, Khimki, Russia), aged 62, is a Russian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist. Kontsevich is best known for Kontsevich invariant. Kontsevich's honours include Fields medal, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Maxim Kontsevich’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Maxim
Maxim Kontsevich’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Maxim in the U.S.?
#1524
US rank in 2025
~6,998
Americans share it since 1923
2012
its peak year
In 1964, 6 American boys were registered Maxim — 3,889th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maxim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maxim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets Maxim apart
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Maxim, according to the stars
Core essence
Maxim notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Maxim is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Maxim wants to be loved
Maxim wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Maxim gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Maxim creates
How Maxim makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Maxim creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Maxim is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Maxim 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 Maxim 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 Maxim's birth date. Working below.
Where Maxim sits
Six lines
Maxim’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Maxim Kontsevich
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Khimki 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 Khimki that night
Computed for 55.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Khimki was Grumium, in Draco, 82.6° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 55.9°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 Khimki at all: they sit past the −34.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
How unusual Maxim's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Jupiter · Only two elements
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Maxim Kontsevich's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Maxim Kontsevich was born on August 25, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Maxim Kontsevich's birth date, August 25, 1964, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Maxim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maxim Kontsevich's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maxim Kontsevich combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Maxim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb
Maxim’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Maxim’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 1.1° orb
Maxim’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.3° to 0.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.
Maxim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 17°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°42′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 11°16′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°34′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.7°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 2.3°
Maxim’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Maxim’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.1°
More people like Maxim
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- Gerd Faltings1954
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- Timothy Gowers1963
- Laurent Lafforgue1966
Born in Russia
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- Vladimir PotaninRussian billionaire
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More charts like Maxim’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- David J. ThoulessBritish physicist
- Richard RobertsEnglish biochemist and molecular biologist
- Annie ErnauxFrench writer (born 1940)
Born in Dragon years
- Nigel FarageBritish politician
- Patrick SwayzeAmerican actor, producer, singer and dancer
- Marcelo VieiraBrazilian association football player
Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
- Alexander Skarsgård1976
- Salif Keita1949
- Rachel Bilson1981
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Malik TillmanGerman-American soccer player
- Francisco ConceiçãoPortuguese footballer (born 2002)
- Senne LammensBelgian association football player (born 2002)
Other Virgo Dragon charts
- James CoburnAmerican actor
- Halvar BjörkSwedish actor
- Marianne AminoffSwedish actress
- Paul WilliamsAmerican composer, singer, songwriter and actor
Other Radiant Storytellers
- François JacobFrench biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
- Maurice WilkinsNew Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
- John GalsworthyEnglish novelist and playwright
- Edward B. LewisAmerican biologist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- David RemnickAmerican journalist, writer and editor (born 1958)
- Tony KushnerAmerican playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)
- Annette Gordon-ReedAmerican historian
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Maxim’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maxim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q369588 (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 Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maxim Kontsevich at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maxim Kontsevich.
Quick answers about Maxim Kontsevich’s chart
- How old is Maxim Kontsevich?
- Maxim Kontsevich is 62 years old, born August 25, 1964 in Khimki, Russia.
- What zodiac sign is Maxim Kontsevich?
- Maxim Kontsevich is a Virgo: born August 25, 1964, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Maxim Kontsevich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1964 birth.
- What is Maxim Kontsevich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maxim Kontsevich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Maxim Kontsevich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maxim Kontsevich's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
