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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Paul
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.
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 35th in 1889, the year of this birth, with 555 American boys 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
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 record
What sets Paul apart
Elizabeth II (1926) and James McAvoy (1979) 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 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. Working below.
Where Paul sits
Six lines
Paul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Karrer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Moscow 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 Moscow that night
Computed for 55.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Merak stood nearest the zenith over Moscow at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 55.8°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −34.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Moscow on any night.
The Moon, 59% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · No Water planets · Venus retrograde
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
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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Capricorn 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
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°53′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 28°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 18°39′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 15°46′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Paul’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Paul’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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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
Computed from April 21, 1889. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73093 (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.
Portrait by UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Karrer 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 Karrer.
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.
- 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 was Paul Karrer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Karrer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
