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Paul D. Boyer

Paul D. Boyer (born July 31, 1918, Provo, United States; died 2018), was an American biochemist. Boyer's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Glenn T. Seaborg Medal and Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry.

Paul D. Boyer’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Paul D. Boyer’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia

Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta

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 is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Paul is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Paul creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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

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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Paul D. Boyer at a glance

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Paul D. Boyer's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 31, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Paul D. Boyer was born on July 31, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Paul D. Boyer's birth date, July 31, 1918, 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 D. Boyer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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 opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.8° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.2° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun in Leo · 7°41′Moon in Taurus · 23°15′23°Mercury in Virgo · 4°32′Venus in Cancer · 8°20′Mars in Libra · 20°05′20°Jupiter in Cancer · 4°00′Saturn in Leo · 16°41′16°Uranus in Aquarius · 26°28′ · retrograde26°Neptune in Leo · 6°52′Pluto in Cancer · 5°50′

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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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.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.1° to 1.0° orb

    Paul’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.7° to 1.9° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Paul’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.1° orb

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

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.2° to 3.6° orb

    Paul’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb

    Paul’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableMarstrineUranus6.1° to 6.7° orb

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

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

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 5.0° to 17.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 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.

  • ChironAries 3°13′ (moves 0.02° 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.

  • CeresSagittarius 26°25′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Paul is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ErosCancer 11°05′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Paul is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • HygieaAries 23°52′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Paul feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • Black Moon LilithLibra 10°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Paul that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.0°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.0°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.7°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 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. 1. Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Paul is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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.

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.

  • Sun quintile Mars 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°

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

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Paul’s cards

Every card is computed from July 31, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yang Earth

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Paul D. Boyer, 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 Q102395, 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 GBHayes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul D. Boyer 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 D. Boyer.

Quick answers about Paul D. Boyer’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul D. Boyer?
Paul D. Boyer was a Leo: born July 31, 1918, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
What was Paul D. Boyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 31, 1918 birth.
What time was Paul D. Boyer 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 D. Boyer's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 31, 1918 birth date.
What was Paul D. Boyer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 31, 1918 birth date.
Where was Paul D. Boyer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Paul D. Boyer's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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