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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972, Paonia, United States), aged 54, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Bacigalupi is best known for The Windup Girl, The Water Knife and Yellow Card Man. Bacigalupi's honours include Theodore Sturgeon Award, Michael L. Printz Award and Locus Award for Best First Novel.

Paolo Bacigalupi’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Paolo Bacigalupi’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Paolo in the U.S.?

#2003

US rank in 2025

~3,739

Americans share it since 1910

2007

its peak year

In 1972, 43 American boys were registered Paolo — 1,279th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Paolo’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on P (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Paolo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Paolo apart

Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Paolo, according to the stars

Core essence

Paolo is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Paolo is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Paolo 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 Paolo needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Paolo wants to be loved

Paolo wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Paolo gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Paolo creates

How Paolo makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Paolo creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Paolo 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Paolo 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 Paolo 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 Paolo's birth date. Working below.

Where Paolo sits

Six lines

Paolo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Paolo

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paolo

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Paolo

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paolo

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Paolo

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paolo

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paolo Bacigalupi

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paonia on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Paolo’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 75.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Paonia that night

Computed for 38.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Paonia at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.1° above the horizon in Draco.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

Paonia sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Paonia on any night.

Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Paolo's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Pluto · 3 planets 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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The quick version

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Paolo Bacigalupi's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Paolo Bacigalupi was born on August 6, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Paolo Bacigalupi's birth date, August 6, 1972, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Paolo’s chart

Paolo’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.5° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun in Leo · 14°21′☉14°Moon in Cancer · 12°42′☽12°Mercury in Leo · 16°14′ · retrograde☿℞16°Venus in Cancer · 0°31′♀0°Mars in Leo · 24°44′♂24°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 29°02′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Gemini · 17°50′♄17°Uranus in Libra · 15°06′♅15°Neptune in Sagittarius · 2°30′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Libra · 0°12′♇0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Paolo’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.3° to 1.2° orb

    Paolo’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Paolo’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.0° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.1° to 1.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.2° to 2.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.9° to 4.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Paolo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 19°14′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 10°58′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°42′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.1°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.9°

Paolo’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Paolo’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.0°

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Paolo’s cards

Computed from August 6, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paolo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26116 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paolo Bacigalupi at Wikipedia, windupstories.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Quick answers about Paolo Bacigalupi’s chart

How old is Paolo Bacigalupi?
Paolo Bacigalupi is 54 years old, born August 6, 1972 in Paonia, United States.
What zodiac sign is Paolo Bacigalupi?
Paolo Bacigalupi is a Leo: born August 6, 1972, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Paolo Bacigalupi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1972 birth.
What is Paolo Bacigalupi's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Paolo Bacigalupi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Paolo Bacigalupi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paolo Bacigalupi's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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