AsterNymAsterNym

Paul Gleason

Paul Gleason (born May 4, 1939, Jersey City, United States; died 2006), was an American actor. Gleason played for Florida State Seminoles football and Selma Cloverleafs.

Paul Gleason’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

Your match with Paul

Free, no account, stays on this device. Add a birth time later.

Paul Gleason’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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

Of the names registered in 1939, Paul came 17th among boys and 1,049th among girls, carried by 13,337 American boys and 47 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Paul’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

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 1939, 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 classrooms behind this chart: North Miami High School and Florida State University.

The working life starts in 1965, at 26.

Cause of death is recorded as mesothelioma; the grave is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

On the family side, Paul Gleason was married Candy Moore.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Paul Gleason: Minor league baseball players, Wytheville Senators players and Selma Cloverleafs players.

Audrey Hepburn (1929) and Fernandinho (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
North Miami High School, Florida State University and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Working from
1965
Cause of death
mesothelioma
Buried at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Sport
baseball
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
26

What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Paul is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Paul is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Paul creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Paul does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Paul

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paul Gleason

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jersey 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 Jersey City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Jersey City was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 83.7° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

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 Jersey City on any night.

Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 98% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Jersey City, United States

The death is recorded at Burbank, Los Angeles County in 2006.

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

55 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn · No Air planets

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.

Score your own chart →

The quick version

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Paul Gleason's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 4, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Paul Gleason was born on May 4, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Paul Gleason's birth date, May 4, 1939, 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 19° to 2° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.4° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.3° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.3° orbSun in Taurus · 13°17′☉13°Moon in Scorpio · 26°04′☽26°Mercury in Aries · 16°48′☿16°Venus in Aries · 10°51′♀10°Mars in Capricorn · 22°26′♂22°Jupiter in Pisces · 28°37′♃28°Saturn in Aries · 23°52′♄23°Uranus in Taurus · 17°34′♅17°Neptune in Virgo · 20°45′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Cancer · 29°20′♇29°

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

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

  • stableJupitertrinePluto0.6° to 0.8° orb

    Paul’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn1.3° to 1.6° orb

    Paul’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.5° to 1.9° orb

    Paul’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.7° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars5.3° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto6.7° to 7.1° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.8° to 8.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 6°14′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 16°25′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 13°28′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.6°

Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Paul’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, 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.

  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°

More people like Paul

Other screenwriters

Born in United States

More charts like Paul’s

Fellow Taurus suns

All about Taurus →

Born in Rabbit years

Year of the Rabbit →

Also born on May 4

Fellow Yin Metal day masters

What a Day Master is →

Other Taurus Rabbit charts

Other Gilded Architects

The Gilded Architect explained →

Famous people with Life Path 4

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Paul’s cards

Computed from May 4, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q537252 (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.

The same Paul Gleason at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

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

Quick answers about Paul Gleason’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul Gleason?
Paul Gleason was a Taurus: born May 4, 1939, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Paul Gleason's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 4, 1939 birth.
What was Paul Gleason's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Paul Gleason's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Paul Gleason's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Paul Gleason's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

More charts to explore