Paul Berg
Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926, Brooklyn, United States; died 2023), was an American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Berg's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Medal of Science and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Paul Berg’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Berg’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Paul in the U.S.?
#262
US rank in 2025
~1,404,135
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
The SSA recorded 13,653 American boys and 86 girls named Paul in 1926: 13th among boys and 782nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 7: voice against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Paul apart
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry came in 1980, when Paul Berg was 54.
Study took Paul Berg to Abraham Lincoln High School and Case Western Reserve University.
The family line: married Mildred Berg.
Wikipedia files Paul Berg under Eberly College of Science alumni, HIV/AIDS researchers and History of biotechnology.
Czesław Miłosz (1911) and Mike Tyson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Abraham Lincoln High School, Case Western Reserve University and Clare Hall
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980), National Medal of Science (1983) and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1980)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul feels the room before entering it. The core of Paul is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Paul, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Paul needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Paul like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Paul creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Paul 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 Paul 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 Paul's birth date. Working below.
Where Paul sits
Six lines
Paul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Paul Berg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 12.9° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 67% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Stanford, Santa Clara County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Berg: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · No Earth planets · 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
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Paul Berg's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 30, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Paul Berg was born on June 30, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Paul Berg's birth date, June 30, 1926, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Berg's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Paul Berg combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Pisces 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.4° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileUranus2.1° to 3.2° orb
Paul’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMars2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.0° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn7.0° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 5°48′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 18°05′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.5°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.3°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn 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 semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Paul’s cards
Computed from June 30, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102379 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Berg at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Berg.
Quick answers about Paul Berg’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Berg?
- Paul Berg was a Cancer: born June 30, 1926, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Berg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 30, 1926 birth.
- What was Paul Berg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Berg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Berg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Berg's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
