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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, 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 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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Paul McCartney's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. 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.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
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
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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
Paul’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsquareVenusapplying · 1.6° orb
Paul’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarsconjunctionPlutoapplying · 1.6° orb
Paul’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
UranussextilePlutoapplying · 2.3° orb
Paul’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MarssextileSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb
Paul’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.2° orb
Paul’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 4.7° orb
Paul’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb
Paul’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunconjunctionJupiterapplying · 5.2° orb
Paul’s core identity and growth act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 12°09′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Paul performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 29°26′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Paul is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 28°60′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Paul is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 0°58′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Paul is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°06′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Paul that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
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.
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 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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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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Born the same day as Paul
Roger Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from June 18, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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 data comes from
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2599, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- 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 from the June 18, 1942 birth date.
- What is Paul McCartney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 18, 1942 birth time.
- 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.
