Paul Graham
Paul Graham (born November 13, 1964, Weymouth, United Kingdom), aged 61, is an English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. Graham is best known for Hacker News, On Lisp and Hackers & Painters.
Paul Graham’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Paul Graham’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
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
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Paul apart
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Lando Norris (1999) 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 does not do surface. The core of Paul is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Paul is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Paul gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Paul creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Paul sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Paul Graham at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Paul Graham's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Paul Graham was born on November 13, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Paul Graham's birth date, November 13, 1964, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Graham's date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Graham combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Paul Graham, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Paul’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 7.4° orb
Paul’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.8° orb
Paul’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 3.9° orb
Paul’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareMars3.2° to 4.1° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
Paul’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.5° orb
Paul’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb
Paul’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.1° to 5.6° orb
Paul’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrineUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
Paul’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°13′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Paul absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 12°32′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Paul caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosScorpio 16°37′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Paul is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 18°21′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Paul is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Paul is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.1°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Sun 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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Paul is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Graham, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Other Radiant Scholars
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from November 13, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Paul Graham, 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 Q92650, 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 Crédit photo: Sarah Harlin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Graham at Wikipedia, paulgraham.com and X.
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 Graham.
Quick answers about Paul Graham’s chart
- How old is Paul Graham?
- Paul Graham is 61 years old, born November 13, 1964 in Weymouth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Graham?
- Paul Graham is a Scorpio: born November 13, 1964, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- What is Paul Graham's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1964 birth.
- What time was Paul Graham 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 is Paul Graham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 13, 1964 birth date.
- What is Paul Graham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 13, 1964 birth date.
- Where is Paul Graham's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Graham's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
