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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

In 1967, 22,821 American boys and 87 girls were registered Paul — 18th among boys and 1,139th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Paul’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1967, 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 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction came in 2011, when Paul Cornell was 44.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from Chippenham, English writers with disabilities and Writers of Doctor Who novels.

Vin Diesel 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.

Awards
Hugo Award for Best Fancast (2012) and BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (2011)
Nominated for
Hugo Award for Best Novelette and British Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
8

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. Working below.

Where Paul sits

Six lines

Paul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Paul

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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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
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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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chippenham that night

Computed for 51.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Chippenham at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

Chippenham sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -2° down.

How unusual Paul's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 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.

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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.

What Cancer means →

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.

What the Goat means →

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.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableSuntrineNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars3.9° to 4.4° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Paul’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Paul’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

Born the same day as Paul

Vin Diesel was born on July 18, 1967 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Chippenham, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Paul’s cards

Computed from July 18, 1967. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7149971 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Paul Cornell's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Paul Cornell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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