Paul Keating
Paul Keating (born January 18, 1944, Bankstown, Australia), aged 82, is an Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia. Keating has held office as member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Home Affairs. Keating's honours include doctor honoris causa of Keiō University and Australian National Living Treasure.
Paul Keating’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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Paul Keating’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Paul is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Paul needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Paul and watch them fall for you again.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Paul is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Paul leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Paul scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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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Paul Keating in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Paul Keating's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 18, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Paul Keating was born on January 18, 1944, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Paul Keating's birth date, January 18, 1944, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Keating's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Paul Keating combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Paul Keating, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Libra 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.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.9° orb
Paul’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb
Paul’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.9° orb
Paul’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.3° to 3.5° orb
Paul’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextilePluto2.5° to 2.7° orb
Paul’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextilePluto2.7° orb
Paul’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb
Paul’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.6° to 4.9° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their imagination.
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 15°30′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Paul turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 26°17′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Paul feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 12°49′ (moves 0.61° 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.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°22′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Paul carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Paul is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron square Venus 2.3°
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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Paul is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Keating, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from January 18, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Paul Keating, 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 Q242654, 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 Lowy Institute (YouTube channel), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Keating 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Paul Keating.
Quick answers about Paul Keating’s chart
- How old is Paul Keating?
- Paul Keating is 82 years old, born January 18, 1944 in Bankstown, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Keating?
- Paul Keating is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1944, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- What is Paul Keating's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1944 birth.
- What time was Paul Keating 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 Keating's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 18, 1944 birth date.
- What is Paul Keating's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 18, 1944 birth date.
- Where is Paul Keating's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Keating's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
