Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney (born June 18, 1942, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 14:00), aged 84, is an English musician and member of the Beatles. McCartney is best known for Band on the Run, Live and Let Die and Maybe I'm Amazed. McCartney's honours include Grammy Awards, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Academy Award for Best Original Score.
Paul McCartney’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul McCartney’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 16,492 American boys and 47 girls named Paul in 1942: 19th among boys and 1,159th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
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
22 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Paul apart
The record Paul McCartney is measured by: Maybe I'm Amazed, Ram and Band on the Run.
Study took Paul McCartney to West Kirby Grammar School and Liverpool Institute High School for Boys.
Paul McCartney was 15 when the work began in 1957.
The family line: born to Mary McCartney and Jim McCartney, married Linda McCartney and Heather Mills and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia files Paul McCartney under British fingerstyle guitarists, Academics of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and English animal rights activists.
Roger Ebert shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Maybe I'm Amazed, Ram and Band on the Run
- Educated at
- West Kirby Grammar School, Liverpool Institute High School for Boys and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
- Instruments
- piano, guitar, trumpet and violin
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), Academy Award for Best Original Score (1971) and MusiCares Person of the Year (2012)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1957
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 149
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 needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Paul needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Paul creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Paul is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 sky
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Read from the sky above Walton Hospital at 14:00, Paul McCartney’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Walton Hospital that night
Computed for 53.45°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Walton Hospital at the birth hour: Capella of Auriga, within 8.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 53.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 19% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -60° below the horizon.
What Paul's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Strategist 天機 in 亥
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · 3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart
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.
Score your own chart →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Paul McCartney's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What Gemini means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22The cathedral builder.
Paul McCartney's birth date, June 18, 1942, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Paul McCartney's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house, Saturn in the 10th house, Uranus in the 10th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Paul McCartney's timed chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Paul McCartney combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Paul’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.5° orb
Paul’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssextileUranusseparating · 0.7° orb
Paul’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextileMercuryapplying · 0.9° orb
Paul’s feelings open doors for their mind.
SaturnsextilePlutoseparating · 0.9° orb
MoonsquareVenusapplying · 1.6° orb
MarsconjunctionPlutoapplying · 1.6° orb
UranussextilePlutoapplying · 2.3° orb
MarssextileSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb
SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.2° orb
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 4.7° orb
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb
SunconjunctionJupiterapplying · 5.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironLeo 12°09′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 29°26′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°60′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 0°58′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°06′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.3°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.4°
- Eros trine Sun 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres square Sun 2.8°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.8°
- Eros square Uranus 3.0°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury15 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Mars, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree 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.- Stellium in Leo · Moon, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Moon quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Moon semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.9°
Paul’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Gemini, house 10 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Taurus, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 11 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 10 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Taurus, house 9 | Venus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Gemini, house 10 | Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 12 | Jupiter | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 10 | Moon, Mars, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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One relative of Paul McCartney also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Paul
Roger Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Walton Hospital, at 53.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Also born on June 18
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Quiara Alegría HudesAmerican playwright and composer
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- Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaDirector-General of the World Trade Organization
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Other Tidal Explorers
- Tupac ShakurAmerican rapper
- Lee Kuan Yew1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
- Matthew McConaugheyAmerican actor
- Jude BellinghamEnglish footballer
Other Virgo risings with documented times
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- Helen ClarkPrime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
- Olivia Newton-JohnBritish–Australian singer
- Michio KakuU.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Charles K. KaoHong Kong-British-American physicist
- Tenzin Gyatso14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans
- Bertha von SuttnerAustrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Paul’s cards
Computed from June 18, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2599 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul McCartney at Wikipedia, paulmccartney.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul McCartney.
Quick answers about Paul McCartney’s chart
- How old is Paul McCartney?
- Paul McCartney is 84 years old, born June 18, 1942 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Paul McCartney?
- Paul McCartney is a Gemini: born June 18, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
- What is Paul McCartney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 18, 1942 birth.
- What time was Paul McCartney born?
- 14:00 local time in Liverpool, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Paul McCartney's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 14:00 birth time in Liverpool, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Paul McCartney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul McCartney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul McCartney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul McCartney's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (15 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
