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Paul Poiret

Paul Poiret (born April 20, 1879, Paris, France, 20:00; died 1944), was a French fashion designer.

Paul Poiret’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Paul Poiret’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, 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

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Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Blush · Gold

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What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Paul is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Paul is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Paul runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Paul needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Paul like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Paul creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Paul is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Paul goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Paul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

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Intimate circleWide network
Paul

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Paul

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Paul Poiret in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Paul Poiret's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Paul Poiret was born on April 20, 1879, which falls in a Earth 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 4

Structure is comfort.

Paul Poiret's birth date, April 20, 1879, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Paul’s chart

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.1° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.3° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.5° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Taurus · 0°21′ · house 7☉0°Moon in Aries · 22°08′ · house 6☽22°Mercury in Aries · 24°41′ · house 6 · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Gemini · 2°28′ · house 8♀2°Mars in Aquarius · 24°18′ · house 4♂24°Jupiter in Pisces · 5°16′ · house 5♃5°Saturn in Aries · 8°48′ · house 6♄8°Uranus in Virgo · 0°13′ · house 11 · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Taurus · 9°08′ · house 7♆9°Pluto in Taurus · 25°22′ · house 7♇25°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 12°23′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 12°23′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 26°17′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 26°17′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SuntrineUranusseparating · 0.1° orb

    Paul’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • MercurysextileMarsapplying · 0.4° orb

    Paul’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb

    Paul’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MoonsextileMarsapplying · 2.2° orb

    Paul’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenussquareUranusseparating · 2.3° orb

    Paul’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.5° orb

    Paul’s feelings and mind act as one.

  • VenussquareJupiterapplying · 2.8° orb

    Paul’s affections grind against their growth.

  • JupitersextileNeptuneapplying · 3.9° orb

    Paul’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • SunsextileJupiterapplying · 4.9° orb

    Paul’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • UranussquarePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

    Paul’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • JupiteroppositionUranusseparating · 5.1° orb

    Paul’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MercurytrineUranusseparating · 5.5° orb

    Paul’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 5.7° orb

    Paul’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MarsoppositionUranusapplying · 5.9° orb

    Paul’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • VenusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.1° orb

    Paul’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 7°49′ · House 7

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Paul building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 1°30′ · House 8

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Paul feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 20°31′ · House 5

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Paul is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 24°47′ · House 5

    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 LilithTaurus 2°09′ · House 7

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Paul is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Neptune 1.3°
  • Ceres square Uranus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.5°

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. 1. ♂ Mars12.5 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Mercury, Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    disposes Mars; 6 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Paul is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Neptune, 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.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Moon, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Uranus, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Mars, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.6°
  • Moon semi-square Jupiter 1.9°

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.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Taurus, house 7emptyself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 5emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 6emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 11Marshome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Taurus, house 7Jupitercreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Aquarius, house 4Moon, Mercury, Saturnwork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 8Sun, Neptune, Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Aries, house 6Venusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Aries, house 6emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Taurus, house 7emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Aries, house 6Uranusfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Gemini, house 8emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Paul’s cards

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The Tidal Architect

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Rabbit 卯

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BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q631884, 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.

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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 Poiret’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul Poiret?
Paul Poiret was a Taurus: born April 20, 1879, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
What was Paul Poiret's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1879 birth.
What time was Paul Poiret born?
20:00 local time in Paris, France, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Paul Poiret's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 20:00 birth time in Paris, France (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Paul Poiret's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 20, 1879 birth date.
What was Paul Poiret's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 7°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 20, 1879 birth time.
Where was Paul Poiret's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°, 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 Poiret's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: rules the Moon sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Mercury, Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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