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Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (born March 14, 1854, Strzelin, Poland; died 1915), was a Jewish-German physician and scientist. Ehrlich's honours include Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Croonian Medal and Lecture.

Paul Ehrlich’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Paul Ehrlich’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

No US figure exists for 1854 — the SSA series begins 26 years later. Paul opened it at 60th, 301 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Paul’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

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

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

The record

What sets Paul apart

Paul Ehrlich took the Croonian Medal and Lecture in 1900, at 46.

The classrooms behind this chart: Magdalenaeum Wrocław and University of Wrocław.

Cause of death is recorded as stroke; the grave is at Old Jewish Cemetery.

The family line: married Hedwig Pinkus and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Paul Ehrlich: Burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt, German venereologists and Medical doctors from the Province of Silesia.

Albert Einstein (1879) and Aamir Khan (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Magdalenaeum Wrocław, University of Wrocław and University of Strasbourg
Awards
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1912), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908) and Croonian Medal and Lecture (1900)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Cause of death
stroke
Buried at
Old Jewish Cemetery
Citizenship
German Empire and Kingdom of Prussia
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
86

What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Paul feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Paul is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Paul is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Paul needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Paul, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Paul creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Paul is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Paul channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

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

PrivateExpressive
Paul

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paul Ehrlich

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Strzelin 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 Strzelin that night

Computed for 50.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Strzelin was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 83.7° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

Strzelin sits at 50.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −39.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Strzelin on any night.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Strzelin, Poland

The death is recorded at Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hochtaunuskreis in 1915.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Ehrlich: 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

66 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet

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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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Paul Ehrlich's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 14, 1854, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Paul Ehrlich's birth date, March 14, 1854, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 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 13° to 26° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.4° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 3.6° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Pisces · 23°34′☉23°Moon in Virgo · 19°59′☽19°Mercury in Aries · 8°05′ · retrograde☿℞8°Venus in Pisces · 2°38′ · retrograde♀℞2°Mars in Virgo · 2°12′ · retrograde♂℞2°Jupiter in Capricorn · 21°58′♃21°Saturn in Taurus · 26°53′♄26°Uranus in Taurus · 9°54′♅9°Neptune in Pisces · 13°47′♆13°Pluto in Taurus · 1°23′♇1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableVenusoppositionMars0.4° orb

    Paul’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.7° to 1.0° orb

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

  • stableVenussextilePluto1.1° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.2° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn5.1° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 20°11′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn or Aquarius during this date

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 26°56′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 11°02′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Saturn 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.1°
  • Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 3.0°

Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Paul’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Venus, 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Mars, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury biquintile Mars 0.1°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°

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Paul’s cards

Computed from March 14, 1854. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57089 (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 Eduard Blum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Ehrlich 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 Ehrlich.

Quick answers about Paul Ehrlich’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul Ehrlich?
Paul Ehrlich was a Pisces: born March 14, 1854, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Paul Ehrlich's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 14, 1854 birth.
What was Paul Ehrlich's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Paul Ehrlich's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Paul Ehrlich's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Paul Ehrlich's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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