Paul Nicholls
Paul Nicholls (born April 17, 1962, Lydney, United Kingdom), aged 64, is a British jockey and trainer. Nicholls's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Paul Nicholls’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Nicholls’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, 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
The SSA recorded 23,802 American boys and 75 girls named Paul in 1962: 19th among boys and 1,281st 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
1
Soul Urge · independence
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 schooling ran through Marlwood School.
Wikipedia files Paul Nicholls under Sportspeople from Lydney, People from Somerset and English jockeys.
Victoria Beckham (1974) and Jennifer Garner (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Marlwood School
- Sport
- equestrian sport
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Paul is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Paul creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Paul is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Paul slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Nicholls
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lydney 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 Lydney that night
Computed for 51.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lydney was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 83.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lydney at all: they sit past the −38.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Saturn
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 →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Paul Nicholls's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Paul Nicholls was born on April 17, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Paul Nicholls's birth date, April 17, 1962, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Nicholls' date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Paul Nicholls combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Virgo or Libra 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 5.9° orb
Paul’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.9° to 3.0° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 6.0° to 17.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 6.6° to 17.3° depending on birth time
possibleJupiteroppositionUranusorb from 8.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What these five are read as, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 9°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 8°53′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 14°15′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°42′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.4°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.8°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.7°
More people like Paul
Other horse trainers
- John Gosden1951
- Aidan O'Brien1969
- Charlie Appleby1975
Born in United Kingdom
- Jackie KayScottish poet and novelist
- Natasha RichardsonBritish actress
- Tim RothBritish actor
- Amanda DonohoeBritish actress
- Janet McTeerBritish actress
- George MichaelEnglish singer
More charts like Paul’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Aretha FranklinAmerican singer, songwriter, and pianist
- Milan KunderaFranco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist
- RonaldinhoBrazilian associaton fooball player
Born in Tiger years
- Chad KroegerCanadian rock musician
- Derek JeterAmerican former professional baseball player, author, bussinessman and baseball broadcasters
- Star JonesAmerican lawyer, television personality, fashion designer, author and women's and diversity advocate (born 1962)
Also born on April 17
- Victoria Beckham1974
- Jennifer Garner1972
- J. P. Morgan1837
- Rooney Mara1985
- Olivia Hussey1951
- Maynard James Keenan1964
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Mamadou SarrSenegalese-French footballer (born 2005)
- Aurèle AmendaSwiss association football player
- Robin RisserFrench footballer (born 2004)
Other Aries Tiger charts
- Octavio PazMexican writer, poet an diplomat
- Hugh HefnerAmerican businessman and magazine publisher
- Ingvar KampradSwedish business magnate
- Elle FanningAmerican actress
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- David CarradineAmerican actor
- James MasonBritish actor
- Harry Dean StantonAmerican actor
- E. G. MarshallAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Mario MolinaMexican chemical engineer
- Philipp LenardGerman physicist
- Johannes StarkGerman physicist
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Paul’s cards
Computed from April 17, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7152727 (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 Danskel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Nicholls at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Nicholls.
Quick answers about Paul Nicholls’s chart
- How old is Paul Nicholls?
- Paul Nicholls is 64 years old, born April 17, 1962 in Lydney, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Nicholls?
- Paul Nicholls is an Aries: born April 17, 1962, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Nicholls's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1962 birth.
- What is Paul Nicholls's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Nicholls's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Nicholls's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Nicholls's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
