Paul Karrer
Paul Karrer (born April 21, 1889, Moscow, Russia; died 1971), was a Swiss chemist. Karrer served as rector. Karrer's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Marcel Benoist Prize and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Paul Karrer’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Paul Karrer’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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~1,404,135
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
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Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Paul needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Paul creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Paul is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Paul is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Paul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Paul Karrer's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 21, 1889, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Ox
Earth OxReliable to the bone.
Paul Karrer was born on April 21, 1889, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Paul Karrer's birth date, April 21, 1889, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Karrer's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Water.
- Paul Karrer combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Paul Karrer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Capricorn 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.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.0° to 1.0° orb
Paul’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.7° to 3.2° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.0° to 3.7° orb
Paul’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
Paul’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.0° orb
Paul’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.7° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 5.0° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineJupiterorb from 6.3° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryoppositionUranusorb from 6.5° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°53′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Paul is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCancer 28°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Paul is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 18°39′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Paul is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 15°46′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Paul is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Paul that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.6°
- Eros square Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.4°
- Eros trine Mars 1.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Eros trine Venus 2.2°
- Ceres square Sun 2.5°
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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Paul is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, 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 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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Karrer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from April 21, 1889, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Paul Karrer, 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 Q73093, 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 UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Karrer at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Paul Karrer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Karrer?
- Paul Karrer was a Taurus: born April 21, 1889, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
- What was Paul Karrer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 21, 1889 birth.
- What time was Paul Karrer 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 was Paul Karrer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 21, 1889 birth date.
- What was Paul Karrer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 21, 1889 birth date.
- Where was Paul Karrer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Karrer's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
