Paul Salyers
Paul Salyers (born August 21, 1929, Wolfe County, United States; died 2010), was an American Kentucky poet laureate. Salyers served as poet laureate.
Paul Salyers’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Salyers’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 13th among boys and 734th among girls in 1929, the year of this birth, with 12,431 American boys and 91 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.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1929, 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 classrooms behind this chart: Morehead State University.
Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Morehead State University
- Languages
- English and American English
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Paul is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Paul needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Paul gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Paul is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Paul Salyers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wolfe County 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 Wolfe County that night
Computed for 37.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wolfe County was Vega, in Lyra, 76.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Wolfe County on any night.
The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wolfe County, United States
- Lived in
- Olive Hill
Wikidata records Olive Hill as Paul Salyers's home, against Wolfe County as the birthplace.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Salyers: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Paul Salyers at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Paul Salyers's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Paul Salyers was born on August 21, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Paul Salyers's birth date, August 21, 1929, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Salyers' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Salyers combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Pisces 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
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Paul’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.9° orb
Paul’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.0° to 2.5° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.2° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.2° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.6° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.2° to 11.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 10°26′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 10°55′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 15°31′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°18′ (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 0.0°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.4°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.8°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
More people like Paul
Other teachers
- Lillie D. Chaffin1925
- Roland Flint1934
- Katherine Johnson1918
- Maxine Waters1938
- Lyndon B. Johnson1908
- Peter Grünberg1939
Born in United States
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- Edward O. WilsonAmerican biologist, naturalist, and writer
- Berry GordyAmerican record producer, founder of Motown Records
- Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisFirst Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Richard HowardAmerican poet and literary critic
- Beverly SillsAmerican operatic soprano
More charts like Paul’s
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- Simon BakerAustralian actor and director
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Born in Snake years
- Eugene KasperskyRussian specialist in the information security field
- Lyudmila KoganRussian businesswoman
- David GreenAmerican businessman, founder of Hobby Lobby, born 1941
Also born on August 21
- Usain Bolt1986
- Robert Lewandowski1988
- Sergey Brin1973
- Kenny Rogers1938
- Hayden Panettiere1989
- Kim Cattrall1956
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Dick CheneyVice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Nancy PelosiAmerican politician (born 1940)
- Thurgood MarshallAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991
Other Leo Snake charts
- Walker KesslerAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Donald NewhouseAmerican businessman
- Samvel KarapetyanArmenian billionaire and politician (born 1965)
- J. K. RowlingBritish author and philanthropist
Other Steadfast Architects
- Katie LeungScottish actress
- Howard SternAmerican radio and television personality
- Jeremy Allen WhiteAmerican actor
- Teyana TaylorAmerican singer-songwriter and actress
Famous people with Life Path 5
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- Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAmerican politician
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Paul’s cards
Computed from August 21, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141192726 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Salyers.
Quick answers about Paul Salyers’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Salyers?
- Paul Salyers was a Leo: born August 21, 1929, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Salyers's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1929 birth.
- What was Paul Salyers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Salyers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Salyers's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Salyers's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
