Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd (born April 6, 1969, Passaic, United States, 11:40), aged 57, is an American actor. Rudd is best known for Ant-Man and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Rudd's honours include New Jersey Hall of Fame and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Paul Rudd’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Rudd’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
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) × cardinal 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
Paul ranked 22nd among boys and 981st among girls in 1969, the year of this birth, with 20,690 American boys and 121 girls on the register.
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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, 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 shelf Paul Rudd is read from: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Ant-Man.
Training came by way of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Shawnee Mission West High School.
The working life starts in 1992, at 23.
The family line: married Julie Yaeger and raised 2 children.
The same date carries Todd Chrisley. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Ant-Man
- Educated at
- The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Shawnee Mission West High School and British American Drama Academy
- Awards
- New Jersey Hall of Fame (2024)
- Working from
- 1992
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 78
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Paul needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Paul has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Paul Rudd
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Passaic on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Passaic at 11:40, Paul Rudd’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Passaic that night
Computed for 40.86°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Passaic at the birth hour: Mirach of Andromeda, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Passaic at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -55° below the horizon, Moon down and 81% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Passaic, United States
- Lives in
- Anaheim · Rhinebeck
Wikidata records Anaheim and Rhinebeck as Paul Rudd's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Paul's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 酉.
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Aries · Yod onto Saturn · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Paul Rudd's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Paul Rudd was born on April 6, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Paul Rudd's birth date, April 6, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Paul Rudd's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house, Venus in the 10th house, Saturn in the 10th house and Uranus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Rudd's timed chart is Mercury trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Paul Rudd combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurytrineMarsapplying · 0.1° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitersextileNeptuneapplying · 0.8° orb
Paul’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
Paul’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.4° orb
SuntrineMarsseparating · 2.4° orb
UranussextileNeptuneapplying · 3.0° orb
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.1° orb
VenustrineMarsapplying · 5.5° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.6° orb
JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.0° orb
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 6.1° orb
MoonconjunctionMarsapplying · 6.1° orb
VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 7.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironAries 3°37′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°49′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 2°28′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 29°13′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 2°39′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.5°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.3°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.1°
Paul’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 6 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 10 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 10 | Jupiter, Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 10 | Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 3 | Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 3 | Moon, Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 6 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 10 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 10 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Paul
Todd Chrisley was born on April 6, 1969 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.9°N, the sky above Passaic stops at −49.1° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Paul
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Born in Rooster years
- Nadia MuradYazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
- Geoffrey WilkinsonBritish Nobel laureate in Chemistry
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Also born on April 6
- James Watson1928
- Zach Braff1975
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Liev SchreiberAmerican actor
- Molly SimsAmerican actress
- Maria ShriverFirst Lady of California from 2003 to 2011
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Other Gilded Strategists
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Other Cancer risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Elon LindenstraussIsraeli mathematician
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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
Computed from April 6, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q276525 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Adam Chitayat, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Rudd at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Rudd.
Quick answers about Paul Rudd’s chart
- How old is Paul Rudd?
- Paul Rudd is 57 years old, born April 6, 1969 in Passaic, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Rudd?
- Paul Rudd is an Aries: born April 6, 1969, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time.
- What is Paul Rudd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 6, 1969 birth.
- What time was Paul Rudd born?
- 11:40 local time in Passaic, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Paul Rudd's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 11:40 birth time in Passaic, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Paul Rudd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Rudd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Rudd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 2°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Rudd's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
