Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier (born November 5, 1854, Carcassonne, France; died 1941), was a French chemist. Sabatier is best remembered for Sabatier nickel and Sabatier reaction. Sabatier's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Paul Sabatier’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Sabatier’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, 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
No US figure exists for 1854 — the SSA series begins 26 years later. Paul opened it at 60th, 301 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The record
What sets Paul apart
Vivien Leigh (1913) and Art Garfunkel (1941) 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 does not do surface. The core of Paul is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Paul is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Paul needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Paul even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Paul is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Sabatier
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Carcassonne 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 Carcassonne that night
Computed for 43.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Carcassonne at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.4° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 43.2°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 Carcassonne at all: they sit past the −46.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Neptune · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Paul Sabatier's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1854, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Paul Sabatier was born on November 5, 1854, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Paul Sabatier's birth date, November 5, 1854, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Sabatier's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Paul Sabatier combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Taurus 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.5° orb
Paul’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
Paul’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionUranus1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune1.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.1° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 1.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleJupitertrineUranusorb from 7.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 8°24′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°13′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 18°10′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 27°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron trine Uranus 2.3°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneAn 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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.0°
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- Cyril RamaphosaPresident of South Africa since 2018
- Hedy Lamarr
Born in Tiger years
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Also born on November 5
- Vivien Leigh1913
- Art Garfunkel1941
- Eliud Kipchoge1984
- Kris Jenner1955
- AuronPlay1988
- Ryan Adams1974
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Walter KohnAmerican physicist
- Edward Victor AppletonEnglish physicist
- Stanley B. PrusinerAmerican neurologist and biochemist
Other Scorpio Tiger charts
- Jodie FosterAmerican actress and filmmaker
- Demi MooreAmerican actress and producer
- Eugene Paul WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician
- Joaquin PhoenixAmerican actor
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
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- Maddie ZieglerAmerican dancer and actress
- Leila LopesAngolan beauty pageant titleholder
Famous people with Life Path 7
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- Geoffrey WilkinsonBritish Nobel laureate in Chemistry
From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Paul’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1854. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104575 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Sabatier at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Sabatier.
Quick answers about Paul Sabatier’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Sabatier?
- Paul Sabatier was a Scorpio: born November 5, 1854, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Sabatier's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1854 birth.
- What was Paul Sabatier's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Sabatier's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Sabatier's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Sabatier's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
