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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Dog, with 
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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
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Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Paul sits
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paul L. Modrich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Sagittarius 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.
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
Paul’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsextileMars4.0° to 4.4° orb
Paul’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
Paul’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 14°55′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Paul is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 13°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Paul is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosTaurus 5°53′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Paul wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaAries 21°01′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Paul feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Paul leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Paul is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul L. Modrich, 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 June 13, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paul L. Modrich, 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 Q7151888, 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 Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul L. Modrich 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
- 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 time was Paul L. Modrich 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 L. Modrich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1946 birth date.
- What is Paul L. Modrich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1946 birth date.
- 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.
