Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962, Barstow, United States), aged 64, is an American newspaper editor. Salopek's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Paul Salopek’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Salopek’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, 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
Of the names registered in 1962, Paul came 19th among boys and 1,281st among girls, carried by 23,802 American boys and 75 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against 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
2 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Paul apart
J. M. Coetzee (1940) and Tom Hiddleston (1981) 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 is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Paul is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Paul be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Paul creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 2 is the peacemaker. Paul is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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. 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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Salopek
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Barstow 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 Barstow that night
Computed for 34.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mebsuta stood nearest the zenith over Barstow at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.0° above the horizon in Gemini.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 34.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Barstow at all: they sit past the −55.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon up and 34% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
6-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart
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
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Paul Salopek's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Paul Salopek was born on February 9, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Paul Salopek's birth date, February 9, 1962, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Salopek's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Eight of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Salopek combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or 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
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.2° orb
Paul’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 2.1° orb
Paul’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.6° to 2.6° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.4° to 6.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.4° to 5.7° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.4° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed8 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 17°31′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 0°35′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°45′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.3°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.0°
More people like Paul
Other editors
- Matthew Brelis1957
- Oscar Griffin, Jr.1933
- Eugene Patterson1923
- John Hohenberg1906
- Max Kase1897
Born in United States
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on February 9
- J. M. Coetzee1940
- Tom Hiddleston1981
- Sócrates1954
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- Bella Poarch1997
- Avan Jogia1992
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- Will SmithAmerican actor, film producer and rapper
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- Kylie MinogueAustralian singer and actress
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
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Paul’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
2 · Diplomat♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2062147 (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 Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Salopek 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 Salopek.
Quick answers about Paul Salopek’s chart
- How old is Paul Salopek?
- Paul Salopek is 64 years old, born February 9, 1962 in Barstow, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Salopek?
- Paul Salopek is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1962, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Salopek's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1962 birth.
- What is Paul Salopek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Salopek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Salopek's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Salopek's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
