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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Paul
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
Paul ranked 14th among boys and 852nd among girls in 1924, the year of this birth, with 13,338 American boys and 78 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
11
Soul Urge · insight
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
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
The record
What sets Paul apart
Tobey Maguire (1975) and Khloé Kardashian (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. 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 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 Paul Conrad
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids that night
Computed for 41.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cedar Rapids was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 80.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 15% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 2° down.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · Grand trine · No Earth planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° 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
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
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.0° to 6.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 24°16′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 28°27′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 28°08′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 9°35′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Paul’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Paul’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.8°
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Paul’s cards
Computed from June 27, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
22 · Master Builder☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2059192 (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.
The same Paul Conrad 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 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.
- 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 was Paul Conrad's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Conrad's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
