Paul L. Modrich
Paul L. Modrich (born June 13, 1946, Raton, United States), aged 80, is an American biochemist. Modrich's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Charles S. Mott Prize and Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research.
Paul L. Modrich’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul L. Modrich’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, 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
Of the names registered in 1946, Paul came 18th among boys and 1,048th among girls, carried by 21,063 American boys and 66 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets Paul apart
James Clerk Maxwell (1831) and Chris Evans (1981) 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Paul needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Paul needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Paul gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Paul creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Paul is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Paul fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 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 L. Modrich
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Raton 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 Raton that night
Computed for 36.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Raton at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 10.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 36.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −53.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Raton on any night.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Earth planets
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Paul L. Modrich's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Paul L. Modrich was born on June 13, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Paul L. Modrich's birth date, June 13, 1946, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul L. Modrich's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul L. Modrich combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° 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
stableJupitertrineUranus0.4° orb
Paul’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.5° to 2.4° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
Paul’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.0° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.2° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.6° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 14°55′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 13°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 5°53′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 21°01′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.7°
- Chiron trine Uranus 2.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn
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.
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
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Paul’s cards
Computed from June 13, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7151888 (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 Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul L. Modrich 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 L. Modrich.
Quick answers about Paul L. Modrich’s chart
- How old is Paul L. Modrich?
- Paul L. Modrich is 80 years old, born June 13, 1946 in Raton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul L. Modrich?
- Paul L. Modrich is a Gemini: born June 13, 1946, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul L. Modrich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1946 birth.
- What is Paul L. Modrich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul L. Modrich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul L. Modrich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul L. Modrich's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
