Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson (born December 15, 1888, Atlantic, United States; died 1959), was an American playwright and writer. Anderson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and honorary doctorate from Columbia University.
Maxwell Anderson’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Maxwell
Maxwell Anderson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Maxwell in the U.S.?
#189
US rank in 2025
~109,467
Americans share it since 1880
2014
its peak year
In 1888, 7 American boys were registered Maxwell — 885th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maxwell’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maxwell’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Maxwell apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama came in 1933, when Maxwell Anderson was 45.
Maxwell Anderson was taught at University of North Dakota and University of North Dakota College of Arts and Sciences.
Maxwell Anderson was 34 when the work began in 1922.
The record gives stroke as the cause, and Anderson Family Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Songwriters from North Dakota, Journalists from North Dakota and People from Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Keylor Navas (1986) and Adam Brody (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of North Dakota, University of North Dakota College of Arts and Sciences and Stanford University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1933)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing
- Working from
- 1922
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Buried at
- Anderson Family Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 35
What the chart says
Maxwell, according to the stars
Core essence
Maxwell is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Maxwell 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.
How Maxwell wants to be loved
Maxwell wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Maxwell be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Maxwell creates
How Maxwell makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Maxwell creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Maxwell is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Maxwell is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Maxwell goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Maxwell's birth date. Working below.
Where Maxwell sits
Six lines
Maxwell’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Atlantic 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 Atlantic that night
Computed for 41.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Atlantic at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.9° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Atlantic sits at 41.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Atlantic, United States
The death is recorded at Stamford, Western Connecticut Planning Region in 1959.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maxwell Anderson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Maxwell's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · Only two elements · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Maxwell Anderson's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 15, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rat
Earth RatResourceful is an understatement.
Maxwell Anderson was born on December 15, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Maxwell Anderson's birth date, December 15, 1888, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Maxwell’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maxwell Anderson's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Maxwell Anderson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Maxwell’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb
Maxwell’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb
Maxwell’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.1° to 1.4° orb
Maxwell’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.3° to 2.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune2.0° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.4° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.0° to 5.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.6° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Maxwell’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 9°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 5°34′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 4°13′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 4°11′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Eros square Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
- Ceres opposition Venus 2.6°
Maxwell’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Maxwell’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 semi-square Jupiter 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.4°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
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Maxwell’s cards
Computed from December 15, 1888. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maxwell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q432919 (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 Stage Publishing Company, Inc., photograph by Alfredo Valente, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maxwell Anderson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maxwell Anderson.
Quick answers about Maxwell Anderson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maxwell Anderson?
- Maxwell Anderson was a Sagittarius: born December 15, 1888, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Maxwell Anderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 15, 1888 birth.
- What was Maxwell Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Maxwell Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Maxwell Anderson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maxwell Anderson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
