Max von Sydow’s birth chart

Max von Sydow's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Aries

   ♈ 20° Aries 05'

   purpose and vitality

   Their sense of purpose comes alive when there is a clear start line. They feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though their energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. It shows up as the project they launch with excitement and then hand off once the routine sets in.

2. ☽Moon in Aries

   ♈ 28° Aries 02'

   needs and habits

   Their day to day needs are simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. Comfort comes from action rather than discussion. It shows up as pacing the room or going for a walk instead of sitting with a feeling until it passes on its own.

3. ☿Mercury in Aries

   ♈ 12° Aries 24'

   mind and voice

   They think in quick, decisive strokes and say what they mean without much preamble. The tension is speaking before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It shows up as finishing other people's sentences and preferring a fast decision to a long meeting.

4. ♀Venus in Taurus

   ♉ 5° Taurus 26' ℞

   love and values

   They love steadily and show it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures. They value loyalty and things built to last. The tension is holding onto a relationship past its natural end because change feels like loss. It shows up as remembering exactly how someone takes their coffee, months in.

5. ♂Mars in Cancer

   ♋ 13° Cancer 09'

   drive and anger

   They act to protect the people and things they care about, and their anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The tension is going quiet or indirect instead of naming what upset they. It shows up as a mood shift that takes people a while to trace back to its actual cause.

6. ♃Jupiter in Taurus

   ♉ 15° Taurus 15'

   growth and excess

   They grow through patience, and their luck tends to show up in steady accumulation rather than a single windfall. The overreach is excess, holding onto more comfort or more stuff than actually serves they. It shows up as a generosity with food, gifts and shared pleasures that occasionally tips into indulgence.

7. ♄Saturn in Capricorn

   ♑ 0° Capricorn 31' ℞

   discipline and doubt

   Saturn is at home here, and they build discipline as naturally as breathing, often carrying responsibility earlier than most people their age. The doubt shows up as never quite believing they have achieved enough to relax. It shows up as an authority that others recognise well before Max is willing to claim it themselves.

8. ♅Uranus in Aries

   ♈ 8° Aries 04'

   freedom, generational

   Shared by everyone born in this multi-year span, this placement marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. Personally, it can show up as an impatience with slow-moving institutions that older generations built.

9. ♆Neptune in Leo

   ♌ 28° Leo 49' ℞

   imagination, generational

   Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.

10. ♇Pluto in Cancer

    ♋ 16° Cancer 13'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.

Aspects

How the planets in Max von Sydow's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Mercury square Mars

   0.8° applying

   Their thoughts and their impulses can clash, showing up as sharp words said before they have fully thought them through. The lesson is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.

2. Moon trine Neptune

   0.8° applying

   Their feelings and their imagination flow together with real ease, giving they a gentle, intuitive emotional life. Compassion for other people comes to they naturally, without much effort, in a way that makes people feel understood almost immediately.

3. Jupiter sextile Pluto

   1.0° applying

   Their sense of possibility and their depth cooperate, giving they acces to meaningful growth without constant upheaval. Opportunities that matter tend to find they at a manageable pace, rather than arriving all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.

4. Saturn trine Neptune

   1.7° separating

   Their discipline and their imagination support each other, letting they build something both beautiful and structurally sound. Vision and follow-through tend to arrive together for they, in a combination that is genuinely rare and worth trusting.

• Mars sextile Jupiter2.1°
• Moon trine Saturn2.5°
• Mars conjunction Pluto3.1°
• Mercury square Pluto3.8°
• Sun square Pluto3.9°
• Mercury conjunction Uranus4.3°
• Venus trine Saturn4.9°
• Mars square Uranus5.1°
• Venus trine Neptune6.6°
• Sun square Mars6.9°
• Moon conjunction Venus7.4°
• Sun conjunction Mercury7.7°
• Sun conjunction Moon8.0°