Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (born June 6, 1925, Philadelphia, United States; died 2014), was an American poet and author. Kumin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Robert Frost Medal.
Maxine Kumin’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Maxine Kumin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Maxine in the U.S.?
#497
US rank in 2025
~115,989
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Maxine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
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What the chart says
Maxine, according to the stars
Core essence
Maxine is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Maxine needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Maxine is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Maxine needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Maxine wants to be loved
Maxine wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Maxine like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Maxine creates
How Maxine makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Maxine creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Maxine is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Maxine is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Maxine 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 Maxine's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Maxine Kumin at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Maxine Kumin's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Maxine Kumin was born on June 6, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Maxine Kumin's birth date, June 6, 1925, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Maxine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maxine Kumin's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maxine Kumin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Maxine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Maxine Kumin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Sagittarius 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.
stableVenussquareUranus1.2° to 2.4° orb
Maxine’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.5° to 4.2° orb
Maxine’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Maxine’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextileUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
Maxine’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.5° orb
Maxine’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.7° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 3.9° to 5.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 5.5° to 18.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 5.8° to 20.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Maxine’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.
⚷ ChironAries 27°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Maxine may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 18°58′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Maxine feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosTaurus 18°06′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Maxine wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 14°49′ (moves 0.33° 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 Maxine needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 19°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Maxine guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 sextile Venus 0.0°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Eros square Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 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°).
Maxine’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon2 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Maxine 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 Maxine’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maxine Kumin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Maxine’s cards
Every card is computed from June 6, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Maxine Kumin, 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
Maxine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2714693, 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 Marthe Willendyck (mother of Thierry Bingen at English Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maxine Kumin at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Maxine Kumin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maxine Kumin?
- Maxine Kumin was a Gemini: born June 6, 1925, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- What was Maxine Kumin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1925 birth.
- What time was Maxine Kumin 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 Maxine Kumin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the June 6, 1925 birth date.
- What was Maxine Kumin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 6, 1925 birth date.
- Where was Maxine Kumin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maxine Kumin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
