Paul Scott Mowrer
Paul Scott Mowrer (born July 14, 1887, Bloomington, United States; died 1971), was an American journalist. Mowrer's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.
Paul Scott Mowrer’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Scott Mowrer’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
The SSA recorded 449 American boys named Paul in 1887: 40th for the year.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The record
What sets Paul apart
The Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence came in 1929, when Paul Scott Mowrer was 42.
Paul Scott Mowrer was taught at University of Michigan.
Paul Scott Mowrer lies at Chocorua Cemetery.
On the family side, Paul Scott Mowrer was married Hadley Richardson.
Wikipedia files Paul Scott Mowrer under Writers from New Hampshire, War correspondents of the Balkan Wars and Poets laureate of New Hampshire.
Conor McGregor (1988) and Angelique Kidjo (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Michigan
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence (1929)
- Buried at
- Chocorua Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul feels the room before entering it. The core of Paul is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Paul, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Paul needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Paul and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Paul creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Paul does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Scott Mowrer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bloomington 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 Bloomington that night
Computed for 40.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Bloomington at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.0° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
Bloomington sits at 40.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bloomington on any night.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon down and 33% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bloomington, United States
The death is recorded at Beaufort, Beaufort County in 1971.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Scott Mowrer: 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
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Paul Scott Mowrer's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 14, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Pig
Fire PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Paul Scott Mowrer was born on July 14, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Paul Scott Mowrer's birth date, July 14, 1887, 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 Scott Mowrer's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Scott Mowrer combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° 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
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.2° orb
Paul’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.1° orb
Paul’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquarePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.5° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.3° to 5.2° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.8° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 27°38′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 20°49′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 29°35′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Ceres square Sun 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros trine Mars 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.6°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
Paul’s family here
One relative of Paul Scott Mowrer also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Paul’s cards
Computed from July 14, 1887. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7153503 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Scott Mowrer 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 Scott Mowrer.
Quick answers about Paul Scott Mowrer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Scott Mowrer?
- Paul Scott Mowrer was a Cancer: born July 14, 1887, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Scott Mowrer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 14, 1887 birth.
- What was Paul Scott Mowrer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Scott Mowrer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Scott Mowrer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Scott Mowrer's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
