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Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu (born June 11, 1990, Southwark, United Kingdom), aged 36, is a British actor. Notable films include Black Mirror, Harry Potter and Men. Essiedu's honours include Ian Charleson Awards and Independent Spirit Award.

Paapa Essiedu’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Paapa Essiedu’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

Paapa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

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What the chart says

Paapa, according to the stars

Core essence

Paapa 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. Paapa needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Paapa is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Paapa needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Paapa wants to be loved

Paapa wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Paapa is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Paapa creates

How Paapa makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Paapa creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Paapa 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 9 is the humanitarian. Paapa is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Paapa gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Paapa's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Paapa sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Paapa

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paapa

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Paapa

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paapa

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Paapa

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paapa

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Paapa Essiedu in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Paapa Essiedu's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 11, 1990, 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.

Metal Horse

Open road, open heart.

Paapa Essiedu was born on June 11, 1990, 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 9

Compassion at scale.

Paapa Essiedu's birth date, June 11, 1990, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Paapa’s chart

Paapa’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Paapa Essiedu, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.5° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.2° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun in Gemini · 20°16′☉20°Moon in Capricorn · 23°45′☽23°Mercury in Taurus · 29°08′☿29°Venus in Taurus · 14°02′♀14°Mars in Aries · 8°08′♂8°Jupiter in Cancer · 15°01′♃15°Saturn in Capricorn · 24°16′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Capricorn · 8°19′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Capricorn · 13°49′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Scorpio · 15°29′ · retrograde♇℞15°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 6.7° orb

    Paapa’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Paapa’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Paapa’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto0.4° to 0.6° orb

    Paapa’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb

    Paapa’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.9° to 2.1° orb

    Paapa’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.1° to 1.3° orb

    Paapa’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb

    Paapa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn4.1° to 5.7° orb

    Paapa’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenustrineUranus5.1° to 6.3° orb

    Paapa’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune5.3° to 6.1° orb

    Paapa’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune5.5° orb

    Paapa’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Paapa’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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 15°40′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Paapa is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 26°10′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Paapa is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 1°54′ (moves 0.68° 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 Paapa wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 20°27′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Paapa needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Paapa is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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 trine Pluto 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Sun 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Chiron opposition Neptune 1.8°
  • Ceres opposition Saturn 1.9°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 3.0°

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°).

Paapa’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. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Paapa is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Paapa’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 quintile Mars 0.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paapa Essiedu, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Paapa’s cards

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The Hermit

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The Radiant Seeker

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Paapa Essiedu, 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

Paapa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23882712, 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 Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paapa Essiedu 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Paapa Essiedu.

Quick answers about Paapa Essiedu’s chart

How old is Paapa Essiedu?
Paapa Essiedu is 36 years old, born June 11, 1990 in Southwark, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Paapa Essiedu?
Paapa Essiedu is a Gemini: born June 11, 1990, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse.
What is Paapa Essiedu's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 11, 1990 birth.
What time was Paapa Essiedu 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 is Paapa Essiedu's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the June 11, 1990 birth date.
What is Paapa Essiedu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 11, 1990 birth date.
Where is Paapa Essiedu's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paapa Essiedu's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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