Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (born June 20, 1951, Portadown, United Kingdom), aged 75, is an Irish poet (born 1951). Muldoon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, T. S. Eliot Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Paul Muldoon’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.How compatible are you with Paul Muldoon?
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Paul Muldoon’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
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 is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Paul needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Paul openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Paul creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Paul is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Paul scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Paul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 SunFascinating, then gone.
Paul Muldoon's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 20, 1951, 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.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Paul Muldoon was born on June 20, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Paul Muldoon's birth date, June 20, 1951, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Muldoon's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Paul Muldoon combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Paul Muldoon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 19° Capricorn 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.5° to 1.9° orb
Paul’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.9° to 2.8° orb
Paul’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.1° to 3.0° orb
Paul’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.1° orb
Paul’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextilePluto2.5° to 3.1° orb
Paul’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.7° orb
Paul’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.9° to 5.0° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.9° orb
Paul’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.2° to 6.3° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarssquareSaturn4.8° to 5.5° orb
Paul’s drive grinds against their discipline.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 29°52′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Paul building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresPisces 15°28′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
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.
♡ ErosAries 1°06′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Paul is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 19°28′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Paul needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 28°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
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. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.6°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.5°
- Eros square Sun 2.8°
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. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Muldoon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from June 20, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Paul Muldoon, 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 Q2061388, 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 summonedbyfells, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Muldoon at Wikipedia, paulmuldoonpoetry.com 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Paul Muldoon.
Quick answers about Paul Muldoon’s chart
- How old is Paul Muldoon?
- Paul Muldoon is 75 years old, born June 20, 1951 in Portadown, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Muldoon?
- Paul Muldoon is a Gemini: born June 20, 1951, 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 Metal Rabbit.
- What is Paul Muldoon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 20, 1951 birth.
- What time was Paul Muldoon 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 Muldoon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the June 20, 1951 birth date.
- What is Paul Muldoon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 20, 1951 birth date.
- Where is Paul Muldoon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Muldoon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
