Paul Conrad
Paul Conrad (born June 27, 1924, Cedar Rapids, United States; died 2010), was an American political cartoonist and sculptor. Conrad's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
Paul Conrad’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Paul Conrad’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, 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
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Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
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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 calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Paul needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul 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. Paul gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Paul creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Paul is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Paul slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Paul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Paul Conrad's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 27, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Paul Conrad was born on June 27, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Paul Conrad's birth date, June 27, 1924, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Conrad's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Paul Conrad combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Paul Conrad, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° 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.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.5° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.3° orb
Paul’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.6° to 5.6° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineMars4.0° to 5.7° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.1° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.7° orb
Paul’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.5° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
Paul’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.0° to 6.2° orb
Paul’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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 24°16′ (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: Paul may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 28°27′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Paul looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosLibra 28°08′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Paul is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 9°35′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Paul is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Paul that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 opposition Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.8°
- Eros trine Mars 2.8°
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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Paul is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Conrad, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from June 27, 1924, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Paul Conrad, 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 Q2059192, 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.
The same Paul Conrad at Wikipedia.
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 Conrad.
Quick answers about Paul Conrad’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Conrad?
- Paul Conrad was a Cancer: born June 27, 1924, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat.
- What was Paul Conrad's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 27, 1924 birth.
- What time was Paul Conrad 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 was Paul Conrad's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the June 27, 1924 birth date.
- What was Paul Conrad's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 27, 1924 birth date.
- Where was Paul Conrad's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Conrad's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
