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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paul Salyers, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Pisces 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.
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
Paul’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.3° to 2.5° orb
Paul’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 3.4° orb
Paul’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.2° to 4.6° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareSaturn5.6° to 6.2° orb
Paul’s drive grinds against their discipline.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Paul building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresGemini 10°26′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Paul feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosLibra 10°55′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Paul is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 15°31′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Paul feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Paul is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Paul is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.8°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Salyers, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from August 21, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paul Salyers, 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 Q141192726, 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.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- 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 time was Paul Salyers 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 was Paul Salyers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 21, 1929 birth date.
- What was Paul Salyers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 21, 1929 birth date.
- 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.
