Paul Dano
Paul Dano (born June 19, 1984, New York City, United States), aged 42, is an American actor (born 1984). Dano's honours include Film Independent Spirit Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Paul Dano’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Dano’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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 1984, 10,460 American boys and 81 girls were registered Paul — 40th among boys and 1,442nd 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
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against 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
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, 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 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture came in 2007, when Paul Dano was 23.
Paul Dano was taught at New York Film Academy and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.
Paul Dano was 12 when the work began in 1996.
Paul Dano was raised 2 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read Wilton High School alumni, Eugene Lang College alumni and Browning School alumni.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) and Boris Johnson (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New York Film Academy, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and Wilton High School
- Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2007) and Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor (2008)
- Nominated for
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1996
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Paul needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Paul needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Paul builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Paul is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Paul runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Dano
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 64% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lives in
- Boerum Hill
Wikidata records Boerum Hill as Paul Dano's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Dano: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · Five planets retrograde · 3 planets 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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Paul Dano's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 19, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Paul Dano was born on June 19, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Paul Dano's birth date, June 19, 1984, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Dano's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Dano combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Pisces 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
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
Paul’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Paul’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.2° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.0° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.7° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 4°59′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°52′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 16°57′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 16°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.8°
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Paul’s cards
Computed from June 19, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q343616 (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 Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Dano at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Dano.
Quick answers about Paul Dano’s chart
- How old is Paul Dano?
- Paul Dano is 42 years old, born June 19, 1984 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Dano?
- Paul Dano is a Gemini: born June 19, 1984, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Dano's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 19, 1984 birth.
- What is Paul Dano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Dano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Dano's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Dano's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
