Paul Newman
Paul Newman (born January 26, 1925, Shaker Heights, United States, 06:30; died 2008), was an American actor. Notable films include The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Newman's honours include Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Academy Award for Best Actor and Kennedy Center Honors.
Paul Newman’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Paul Newman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
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 steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Paul is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Paul needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Paul you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Paul creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Paul is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Paul Newman's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Paul Newman was born on January 26, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Paul Newman's birth date, January 26, 1925, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Paul’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Paul Newman's timed chart: Mercury in the 1st house, Venus in the 1st house, Mars in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 1st house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Newman's timed chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Paul Newman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Paul’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), 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
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 0.4° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
VenussextileSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb
Paul’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 1.1° orb
Paul’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
Paul’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 1.7° orb
Paul’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarstrineNeptuneseparating · 2.0° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 2.4° orb
Paul’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
JupiteroppositionPlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
Paul’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 4.4° orb
Paul’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussextileUranusapplying · 4.7° orb
Paul’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 4.8° orb
Paul’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 5.4° orb
Paul’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 5.5° orb
Paul’s affections and growth act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ ChironAries 20°25′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Paul may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°17′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Paul is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 19°29′ · House 2
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.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 9°30′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Paul is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°27′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Paul guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres sextile Moon 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.2°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Moon 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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn12.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Paul is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
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.
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 2.0°
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 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 11 | Mercury, Venus, Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Pisces, house 3 | Sun | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 8 | Moon, Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 4 | Mars | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 3 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 2 | Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | Saturn | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from January 26, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41871, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, dedicated to Bettmann Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Newman at Wikipedia, newmansown.com, IMDb 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 Newman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Newman?
- Paul Newman was an Aquarius: born January 26, 1925, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- What was Paul Newman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 26, 1925 birth.
- What time was Paul Newman born?
- 06:30 local time in Shaker Heights, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Paul Newman's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 06:30 birth time in Shaker Heights, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall was Paul Newman?
- Paul Newman was 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Paul Newman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 26, 1925 birth date.
- What was Paul Newman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 26, 1925 birth time.
- Where was Paul Newman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Newman's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
