Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino (born May 31, 1970, Naples, Italy), aged 56, is an Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1970). Sorrentino is best known for The Great Beauty, The Young Pope and Youth. Sorrentino's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film and David di Donatello for Best Script.
Paolo Sorrentino’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Paolo
Paolo Sorrentino’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
The SSA recorded 43 American boys named Paolo in 1970: 1,272nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paolo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
The record
What sets Paolo apart
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) 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 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. Paolo needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Paolo 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: Paolo is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Paolo is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Paolo scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Paolo Sorrentino
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Naples 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 Naples that night
Computed for 40.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Naples at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
Naples sits at 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 12% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Paolo's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets · A leaning bowl · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Paolo Sorrentino's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Paolo Sorrentino was born on May 31, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Paolo Sorrentino's birth date, May 31, 1970, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Paolo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paolo Sorrentino's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Paolo Sorrentino combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Paolo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.3° to 0.8° orb
Paolo’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.6° to 2.3° orb
Paolo’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquarePluto3.8° to 4.4° orb
Paolo’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineUranus4.4° to 5.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.6° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileSaturnorb from 4.6° to 5.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Paolo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 9°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 18°03′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 22°43′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron square Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.0°
Paolo’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Paolo’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 2.0°
More people like Paolo
Other film directors
- Tommy Lee Jones1946
- Lauren Parsekian1986
- Stanley Kramer1913
- Tim Burton1958
- Jason Bateman1969
- Tina Turner1939
Born in Italy
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- Sonia BergamascoItalian actress
- Elisabetta CanalisItalian model and actress
- Pierfrancesco FavinoItalian actor
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More charts like Paolo’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Malcolm McDowellBritish actor (born 1943)
- Danny AielloAmerican actor
- Carl DueringGerman actor
Born in Dog years
- Dan FeeneyAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Mitchell TrubiskyAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Tanoh KpassagnonAmerican football player
Also born on May 31
- Clint Eastwood1930
- Colin Farrell1976
- Brooke Shields1965
- Chien-Shiung Wu1912
- Iga Świątek2001
- Azealia Banks1991
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Leila LopesAngolan beauty pageant titleholder
- Reid WisemanAmerican astronaut
- Mary BarraChief Executive Officer of General Motors
Other Gemini Dog charts
- Artem ChigvintsevRussian dancer
- Jamie KennedyAmerican actor and comedian
- Shiloh Joliedaughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
- Tara LipinskiAmerican figure skater (born 1982)
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Martha PlimptonAmerican actress
- Soon-Yi Previnwife of Woody Allen
- Connor StorrieAmerican actor (born 2000)
- Ashlee SimpsonAmerican singer and actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- El JonesCanadian journalist, professor, activist
- Andrew Motionpoet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)
- Dionne BrandCanadian writer, poet
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Paolo’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paolo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q374678 (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 Pietro Luca Cassarino, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paolo Sorrentino at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paolo Sorrentino.
Quick answers about Paolo Sorrentino’s chart
- How old is Paolo Sorrentino?
- Paolo Sorrentino is 56 years old, born May 31, 1970 in Naples, Italy.
- What zodiac sign is Paolo Sorrentino?
- Paolo Sorrentino is a Gemini: born May 31, 1970, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Paolo Sorrentino's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1970 birth.
- What is Paolo Sorrentino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paolo Sorrentino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paolo Sorrentino's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paolo Sorrentino's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
