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Portrait of Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell (born July 18, 1967, Chippenham, United Kingdom), aged 59, is a British writer. Cornell's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fancast and BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction.

Paul Cornell’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Paul Cornell’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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 an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Paul needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Paul and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Paul creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Paul is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Paul fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Paul

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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 Cornell

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chippenham on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Paul’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 11.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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.

Paul Cornell in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Paul Cornell's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1967, 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.

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Paul Cornell was born on July 18, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Paul Cornell's birth date, July 18, 1967, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Paul Cornell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.5° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.5° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbSun in Cancer · 25°08′☉25°Moon in Sagittarius · 14°58′☽14°Mercury in Cancer · 12°26′ · retrograde☿℞12°Venus in Virgo · 6°41′♀6°Mars in Libra · 29°18′♂29°Jupiter in Leo · 10°52′♃10°Saturn in Aries · 12°25′♄12°Uranus in Virgo · 21°22′♅21°Neptune in Scorpio · 21°39′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Virgo · 18°36′♇18°

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.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Paul’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune0.3° orb

    Paul’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.5° to 1.7° orb

    Paul’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.8° orb

    Paul’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

    Paul’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb

    Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb

    Paul’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareMars3.9° to 4.4° orb

    Paul’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°44′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Paul absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 13°18′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Paul is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 9°45′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Paul wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 5°16′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Paul is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Paul carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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.

  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Eros square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.5°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.7°

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. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

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.

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.

  • Venus biquintile Saturn 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°

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

Born the same day as Paul

Vin Diesel was born on July 18, 1967 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Paul’s cards

Every card is computed from July 18, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Paul Cornell, 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 Q7149971, 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 The original uploader was Morwen at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Cornell at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Cornell.

Quick answers about Paul Cornell’s chart

How old is Paul Cornell?
Paul Cornell is 59 years old, born July 18, 1967 in Chippenham, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Paul Cornell?
Paul Cornell is a Cancer: born July 18, 1967, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
What is Paul Cornell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1967 birth.
What time was Paul Cornell 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 Cornell's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 18, 1967 birth date.
What is Paul Cornell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 18, 1967 birth date.
Where is Paul Cornell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paul Cornell's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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