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Paul Gigot

Paul Gigot (born May 24, 1955, San Antonio, United States), aged 71, is an American journalist. Gigot's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, White House Fellows and Irving Kristol Award.

Paul Gigot’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Paul Gigot’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 1955, 26,701 American boys and 64 girls were registered Paul — 16th among boys and 1,269th 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

1

Soul Urge · independence

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.

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

4 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green

The record

What sets Paul apart

Bob Dylan (1941) and Joseph Brodsky (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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 all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Paul needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Paul is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Paul is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Paul scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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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.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paul Gigot

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

Paul’s birth-night reference starZosmawhite · LeoZosma, in Leo. A white star, 80° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Zosma →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 17.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over San Antonio that night

Computed for 29.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Zosma stood nearest the zenith over San Antonio at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.0° above the horizon in Leo.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

San Antonio sits at 29.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 15% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Paul's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Gemini · 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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Paul Gigot's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 24, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Paul Gigot was born on May 24, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Paul Gigot's birth date, May 24, 1955, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 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 5° to 19° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.1° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbSun in Gemini · 2°45′☉2°Moon in Cancer · 12°38′☽12°Mercury in Gemini · 24°49′☿24°Venus in Taurus · 6°13′♀6°Mars in Gemini · 29°08′♂29°Jupiter in Cancer · 26°28′♃26°Saturn in Scorpio · 16°44′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Cancer · 24°48′♅24°Neptune in Libra · 25°57′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 24°23′♇24°

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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb

    Paul’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.7° to 1.5° orb

    Paul’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.8° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarssextilePlutoorb from 4.4° to 5.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 4.9° to 19.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 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 ℞Aquarius 5°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 25°17′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 17°09′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 7°45′

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Saturn 0.4°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.5°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.7°
  • Chiron square Venus 0.8°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.7°

Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter, Uranus

Configurations in Paul’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°

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Paul’s cards

Computed from May 24, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

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 Q7150895 (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 Grant Wickes from Plano, TX (Dallas), USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Gigot at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Gigot.

Quick answers about Paul Gigot’s chart

How old is Paul Gigot?
Paul Gigot is 71 years old, born May 24, 1955 in San Antonio, United States.
What zodiac sign is Paul Gigot?
Paul Gigot is a Gemini: born May 24, 1955, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Paul Gigot's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 24, 1955 birth.
What is Paul Gigot's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Paul Gigot's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Paul Gigot's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paul Gigot's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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