Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard (born December 11, 1925, New York City, United States; died 2019), was an American neuroscientist. Greengard's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ralph W. Gerard Prize and Dickson Prize in Medicine.
Paul Greengard’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Greengard’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, 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
Paul ranked 13th among boys and 832nd among girls in 1925, the year of this birth, with 14,175 American boys and 81 girls on the register.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against 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
22 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The record
What sets Paul apart
Naguib Mahfouz (1911) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918) 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 the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Paul is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Paul be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Paul creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Paul is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Greengard
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Almach, in Andromeda, 85.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
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 New York City on any night.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 17% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Paul Greengard's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 11, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Paul Greengard was born on December 11, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Paul Greengard's birth date, December 11, 1925, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Greengard's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Paul Greengard combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.3° orb
Paul’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Paul’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.6° to 2.1° orb
Paul’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.8° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsquareUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.4° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.0° to 6.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.1° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°02′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 25°31′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 3°31′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 22°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.3°
- Eros square Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.3°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
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Paul’s cards
Computed from December 11, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
22 · Master Builder♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309979 (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.
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The same Paul Greengard 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 Greengard.
Quick answers about Paul Greengard’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Greengard?
- Paul Greengard was a Sagittarius: born December 11, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Greengard's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 11, 1925 birth.
- What was Paul Greengard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Greengard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Greengard's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Greengard's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
