Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch (born May 9, 1977, Limerick, Ireland), aged 49, is an Irish writer (born 1977). Lynch is best known for Prophet Song. Lynch's honours include Booker Prize and Foreign Novel Booksellers' Prize.
Paul Lynch’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Lynch’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 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, 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
In 1977, 11,798 American boys and 76 girls were registered Paul — 31st among boys and 1,461st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
11
Soul Urge · insight
2
Personality · warm, careful
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
2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Paul apart
Shaboozey (1995) and Willyrex (1993) 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 needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Paul needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Paul creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Paul is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Paul gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Lynch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Limerick 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 Limerick that night
Computed for 52.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Limerick at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 52.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −37.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Limerick on any night.
The Moon was at last quarter, 54% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
89 / 100 · One in a thousand
Grand cross · Yod onto Uranus · Yod onto Uranus
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Paul Lynch's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 9, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Paul Lynch was born on May 9, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Paul Lynch's birth date, May 9, 1977, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Lynch's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Paul Lynch 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 2° to 16° Aquarius 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
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.7° orb
Paul’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Paul’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.8° to 1.2° orb
Paul’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.2° to 1.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn1.2° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.6° to 2.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto2.4° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 27°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°17′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°42′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 1°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.4°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn8 pts
8 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Uranus · Mars, Jupiter, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Uranus · Venus, Jupiter, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.7°
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Tyus JonesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Danny WolfIsraeli-American basketball player
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Born in Snake years
- Evan MobleyAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Scottie BarnesAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Derek Stingley Jr.American football defensive back
Also born on May 9
- Shaboozey1995
- Willyrex1993
- Dana Perino1972
- Albert Finney1936
- John Corbett1961
- Noah Centineo1996
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- Hermann HesseNobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
- Rabindranath TagoreBengali poet, philosopher and polymath
- Gao XingjianChinese novelist and playwright (1940- )
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- Audrey HepburnBritish actress
- Edward JennerEnglish physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
Other Radiant Guardians
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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 May 9, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
2 · Diplomat♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21100124 (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 ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Lynch at Wikipedia and paullynchwriter.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Lynch.
Quick answers about Paul Lynch’s chart
- How old is Paul Lynch?
- Paul Lynch is 49 years old, born May 9, 1977 in Limerick, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Lynch?
- Paul Lynch is a Taurus: born May 9, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Lynch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1977 birth.
- What is Paul Lynch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Lynch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Lynch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Lynch's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
