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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dog, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~3,739
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Paolo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Paolo sits
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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.
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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. 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 Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Paolo Sorrentino was born on May 31, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paolo Sorrentino, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Paolo’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Paolo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
Paolo’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareUranus5.6° to 6.3° orb
Paolo’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 9°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Paolo may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 18°03′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Paolo looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 22°43′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Paolo is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Paolo needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Paolo is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 sextile Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron square Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.0°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.0°
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°).
Paolo’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Paolo is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Paolo’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.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paolo Sorrentino, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Paolo’s cards
Every card is computed from May 31, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paolo Sorrentino, 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
Paolo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q374678, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- 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 time was Paolo Sorrentino 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 Paolo Sorrentino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 31, 1970 birth date.
- What is Paolo Sorrentino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 31, 1970 birth date.
- 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.
