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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Maximilian
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 1907
2016
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Maximilian falls under that line for 1930. Its peak came in 2016, and 18,940 Americans have carried it since 1907.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maximilian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maximilian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Maximilian apart
The Academy Award for Best Actor came in 1962, when Maximilian Schell was 32.
Study took Maximilian Schell to Bern Academy of the Arts and University of Basel.
Maximilian Schell was 23 when the work began in 1953.
The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Vienna Central Cemetery as the resting place.
Maximilian Schell was born to Margarethe Noé von Nordberg and Hermann Ferdinand Schell and married Iva Mihanović and Natalya Andrejchenko.
On Wikipedia the categories read Male actors from Zurich, Swiss expatriates in Austria and Golden Orange Honorary Award winners.
Jim Morrison (1943) and Nicki Minaj (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bern Academy of the Arts, University of Basel and University of Zurich
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1962), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1962) and Bernhard Wicki Award (2011)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1953
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Switzerland and Austria
- Languages
- English and German
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
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. Working below.
Where Maximilian sits
Six lines
Maximilian’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Maximilian Schell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night
Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Vienna at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Vienna sits at 48.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Vienna at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vienna, Austria
The death is recorded at Innsbruck, Tyrol in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maximilian Schell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Maximilian's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde
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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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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.7° to 4.2° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.2° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 15°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°43′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 12°20′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°07′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Maximilian’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Maximilian’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Maximilian’s cards
Computed from December 8, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maximilian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153018 (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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
- 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 was Maximilian Schell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Maximilian Schell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
