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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Paul sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paul Salopek, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Paul’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.6° orb
Paul’s affections and growth act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.4° to 6.1° orb
Paul’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.4° to 5.7° orb
Paul’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb
Paul’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.4° to 7.6° orb
Paul’s mind and discipline act as one.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Paul absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 17°31′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Paul is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosPisces 0°35′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
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.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°45′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Paul is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Paul exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.3°
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 and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Paul is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Salopek, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from February 9, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paul Salopek, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2062147, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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.
Portrait by Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Salopek at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
- 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 time was Paul Salopek born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Paul Salopek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the February 9, 1962 birth date.
- What is Paul Salopek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 9, 1962 birth date.
- 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.
