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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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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 1880
2012
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maxim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Maxim sits
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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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Maxim Kontsevich in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Maxim Kontsevich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Maxim’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb
Maxim’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.8° to 1.3° orb
Maxim’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb
Maxim’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Maxim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
Maxim’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
Maxim’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextilePluto3.0° to 3.6° orb
Maxim’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Maxim’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Pisces 17°07′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Maxim absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°42′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Maxim is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 11°16′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Maxim is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°34′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Maxim is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 24°54′ (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 Maxim 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.
- 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°
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°).
Maxim’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Maxim is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Maxim’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maxim Kontsevich, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Maxim’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Maxim Kontsevich, 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
Maxim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q369588, 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 Gert-Martin Greuel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maxim Kontsevich at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- 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 time was Maxim Kontsevich 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 is Maxim Kontsevich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1964 birth date.
- What is Maxim Kontsevich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1964 birth date.
- 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.
