Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (born January 21, 1922, Hurstpierpoint, United Kingdom; died 2008), was a British actor. Scofield's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Paul Scofield’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Scofield’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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
Paul ranked 14th among boys and 816th among girls in 1922, the year of this birth, with 12,922 American boys and 81 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as 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
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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
Paul Scofield took the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1962, at 40.
The working life starts in 1940, at 18.
Cause of death is recorded as leukemia.
Wikipedia's editors put Paul Scofield under Male actors from Birmingham, West Midlands, Burials in East Sussex and Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles BAFTA Award winners.
Christian Dior (1905) and Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1967), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1967) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1967)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1940
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Paul needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Paul you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Paul creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Paul is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Paul runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 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 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 Scofield
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hurstpierpoint on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Hurstpierpoint that night
Computed for 50.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hurstpierpoint at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 50.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 33% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hurstpierpoint, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Brighton, Brighton and Hove in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Scofield: 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 Mars · 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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Paul Scofield's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 21, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Paul Scofield was born on January 21, 1922, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Paul Scofield's birth date, January 21, 1922, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Scofield's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Paul Scofield combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Scorpio 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
stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 5.9° orb
Paul’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb
Paul’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 7.5° orb
Paul’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.4° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysquareMars0.7° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.0° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.1° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.7° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.0° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ ChironAries 9°54′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°10′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 14°28′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 28°03′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 1°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.3°
- Ceres square Sun 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.6°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Neptune, MarsAn 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 quincunx Uranus 0.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.8°
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Paul’s cards
Computed from January 21, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223988 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Scofield at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Scofield.
Quick answers about Paul Scofield’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Scofield?
- Paul Scofield was an Aquarius: born January 21, 1922, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Scofield's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 21, 1922 birth.
- How tall was Paul Scofield?
- Paul Scofield was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Paul Scofield's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Scofield's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Scofield's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Scofield's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
