Paul Horgan
Paul Horgan (born August 1, 1903, Buffalo, United States; died 1995), was an American historian. Horgan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, Guggenheim Fellowship and Bancroft Prize.
Paul Horgan’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Horgan’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 1903, Paul came 19th among boys and 1,414th among girls, carried by 1,081 American boys and 8 girls.
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
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3).
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
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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 1903, 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
Paul Horgan took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945, at 42.
Training came by way of Eastman School of Music and New Mexico Military Institute.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Paul Horgan: Catholic University of America people, Writers from Buffalo, New York and Eastman School of Music alumni.
Georges Charpak (1924) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Eastman School of Music and New Mexico Military Institute
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize (1955), Pulitzer Prize for History (1955) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1945)
- Nominated for
- National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Paul is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Paul and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Paul fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Horgan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buffalo 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 Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Buffalo at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Buffalo at all: they sit past the −47.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon up and 68% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Buffalo, United States
- Lived in
- Buffalo
Wikidata records Buffalo as Paul Horgan's home, Buffalo among them.
The death is recorded at Middletown, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region in 1995.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Horgan: 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
57 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Paul Horgan's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Paul Horgan was born on August 1, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Paul Horgan's birth date, August 1, 1903, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Horgan's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Paul Horgan combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableVenussquareUranus0.4° to 1.1° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenussquarePluto0.7° to 1.4° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.7° to 0.8° orb
Paul’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.1° to 1.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextilePlutoorb from 4.4° to 6.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 4.6° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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 ℞Capricorn 18°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 19°41′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°47′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 0°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 0.6°
- Eros trine Sun 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Grand cross · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Paul’s cards
Computed from August 1, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2057501 (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 Horgan 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 Horgan.
Quick answers about Paul Horgan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Horgan?
- Paul Horgan was a Leo: born August 1, 1903, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Horgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1903 birth.
- What was Paul Horgan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Horgan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Horgan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Horgan's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
