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Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany (born May 27, 1971, Shepherd's Bush, United Kingdom), aged 55, is a British actor. Bettany is best known for WandaVision, A Knight's Tale and A Beautiful Mind. Bettany's honours include Empire Award for Best British Actor.

Paul Bettany’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Paul Bettany’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8

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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The record

What sets Paul apart

Lisa Lopes shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

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

The vibe

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

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul 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 Paul is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Paul creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Paul is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Paul goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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

Where Paul sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Paul

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

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

PrivateExpressive
Paul

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

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

PracticalVisionary
Paul

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paul Bettany

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shepherd's Bush on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Paul’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 85.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 26.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Paul Bettany's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1971, 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 Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Paul Bettany was born on May 27, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Paul Bettany's birth date, May 27, 1971, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Paul Bettany, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun in Gemini · 5°31′☉5°Moon in Cancer · 13°09′☽13°Mercury in Taurus · 12°13′☿12°Venus in Taurus · 10°48′♀10°Mars in Aquarius · 11°12′♂11°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 1°04′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Taurus · 27°13′♄27°Uranus in Libra · 9°37′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Sagittarius · 1°36′ · retrograde♆℞1°Pluto in Virgo · 27°01′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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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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

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.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Paul’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.1° to 0.3° orb

    Paul’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.5° to 1.5° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Paul’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.3° to 1.5° orb

    Paul’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.4° to 1.8° orb

    Paul’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb

    Paul’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSuntrineUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb

    Paul’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.0° orb

    Paul’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb

    Paul’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb

    Paul’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.5° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

Paul’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 12°47′ (moves 0.04° 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: Paul may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°59′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Paul feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosGemini 12°09′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Paul is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 13°16′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Paul at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 29°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Paul exacting with themselves first.

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.

  • Eros trine Mars 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Mars 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.4°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.5°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.6°

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°).

Paul’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Paul 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 Paul’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.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 1.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°

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

Paul’s family here

One relative of Paul Bettany also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Paul

Lisa Lopes was born on May 27, 1971 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Paul’s cards

Every card is computed from May 27, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Paul Bettany, 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

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q242707, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Bettany at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Paul Bettany.

Quick answers about Paul Bettany’s chart

How old is Paul Bettany?
Paul Bettany is 55 years old, born May 27, 1971 in Shepherd's Bush, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Paul Bettany?
Paul Bettany is a Gemini: born May 27, 1971, 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 Pig.
What is Paul Bettany's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1971 birth.
What time was Paul Bettany 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 Paul Bettany's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 27, 1971 birth date.
What is Paul Bettany's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 27, 1971 birth date.
Where is Paul Bettany's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paul Bettany's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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