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Paul Reiser

Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1956, New York City, United States), aged 70, is an American actor.

Paul Reiser’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Paul Reiser’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

In 1956, 26,897 American boys and 69 girls were registered Paul — 17th among boys and 1,257th among girls on the SSA's list that 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

5

Soul Urge · freedom

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

9 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets Paul apart

Céline Dion (1968) and Ingvar Kamprad (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Paul creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Paul is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Paul does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Paul

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Paul

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paul Reiser

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 79% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.

How unusual Paul's chart is

Chart pattern score

59 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Pluto · Five planets retrograde

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.

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Paul Reiser in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Paul Reiser's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 30, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Paul Reiser was born on March 30, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Paul Reiser's birth date, March 30, 1956, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.5° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Aries · 9°58′☉9°Moon in Sagittarius · 0°02′☽0°Mercury in Aries · 3°23′☿3°Venus in Taurus · 25°12′♀25°Mars in Capricorn · 20°09′♂20°Jupiter in Leo · 21°59′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Sagittarius · 2°32′ · retrograde♄℞2°Uranus in Cancer · 28°14′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Libra · 29°34′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Leo · 26°26′ · retrograde♇℞26°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.8° orb

    Paul’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.7° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb

    Paul’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.2° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus4.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars4.8° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 7.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 10°29′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 15°42′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 22°56′ (moves 0.47° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 21°44′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.6°
  • Eros trine Venus 2.3°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 3.0°

Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Paul’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Venus, Saturn, PlutoAn 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 1.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°

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Paul’s cards

Computed from March 30, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q430922 (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 Paul_Reiser_2011.jpg: Thomas Atilla Lewis at https://www.flickr.com/people/51761894@N00 derivative work: RanZag (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Reiser at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Reiser.

Quick answers about Paul Reiser’s chart

How old is Paul Reiser?
Paul Reiser is 70 years old, born March 30, 1956 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Paul Reiser?
Paul Reiser is an Aries: born March 30, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Paul Reiser's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 30, 1956 birth.
What is Paul Reiser's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Paul Reiser's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Paul Reiser's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paul Reiser's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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