Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930, Vienna, Austria; died 2014), was a Swiss and Austrian film and actor. Schell's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Maximilian Schell’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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Maximilian Schell’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Maximilian in the U.S.?
#590
US rank in 2025
~18,940
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maximilian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Maximilian, according to the stars
Core essence
Maximilian is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Maximilian is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Maximilian is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Maximilian needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Maximilian wants to be loved
Maximilian wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Maximilian even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Maximilian creates
How Maximilian makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Maximilian creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Maximilian is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Maximilian is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Maximilian fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Maximilian's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Maximilian Schell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Maximilian Schell was born on December 8, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Maximilian Schell's birth date, December 8, 1930, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Maximilian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maximilian Schell's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Maximilian Schell combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Maximilian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maximilian Schell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Cancer 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.
stableSuntrineMars0.1° to 1.0° orb
Maximilian’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
Maximilian’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Maximilian’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenustrinePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
Maximilian’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.7° to 4.2° orb
Maximilian’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.4° to 3.5° orb
Maximilian’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSuntrineUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb
Maximilian’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb
Maximilian’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.1° to 5.3° orb
Maximilian’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareMars6.2° to 6.5° orb
Maximilian’s affections grind against their drive.
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Maximilian’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 ℞Taurus 15°03′ (moves 0.04° 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 Maximilian building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 2°43′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Maximilian is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 12°20′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Maximilian loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°07′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Maximilian needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Maximilian is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Ceres square Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron square Mars 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.7°
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°).
Maximilian’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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter, Pluto
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Maximilian is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Maximilian’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.
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maximilian Schell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Maximilian’s cards
Every card is computed from December 8, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maximilian Schell, 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
Maximilian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153018, 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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maximilian Schell at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Maximilian Schell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maximilian Schell?
- Maximilian Schell was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1930, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was Maximilian Schell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1930 birth.
- What time was Maximilian Schell 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 was Maximilian Schell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 8, 1930 birth date.
- What was Maximilian Schell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 8, 1930 birth date.
- Where was Maximilian Schell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maximilian Schell's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
