Paul Simon
Paul Simon (born October 13, 1941, Newark, United States, 02:33), aged 85, is an American singer-songwriter. Simon is best known for Still Crazy After All These Years, There Goes Rhymin' Simon and Graceland. Simon's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Paul Simon’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Simon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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
In 1941, 15,166 American boys and 63 girls were registered Paul — 18th among boys and 931st among girls on the SSA's list that 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
1
Soul Urge · independence
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against 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
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Paul apart
There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years and Graceland. That is the work the name is attached to.
Paul Simon was taught at Forest Hills High School and Brooklyn Law School.
Paul Simon was 16 when the work began in 1957.
The family line: born to Belle Simon and Louis Simon, married Edie Brickell and Carrie Fisher and raised 4 children.
Margaret Thatcher (1925) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years and Graceland
- Educated at
- Forest Hills High School, Brooklyn Law School and Queens College
- Instruments
- guitar, bass guitar and voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2001), MusiCares Person of the Year (2001) and Polar Music Prize (2012)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Original Score and Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1957
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Paul is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Paul needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Paul and watch them fall for you again.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Paul builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Paul is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Paul gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Paul Simon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newark on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Newark at 02:33, Paul Simon’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Newark that night
Computed for 40.74°N, at the documented birth time.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Newark at the birth hour, 84.7° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Newark sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 52% lit at last quarter.
What Paul's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Enforcer 廉貞 in 申
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1
Sacral authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Moon · Mars retrograde · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Paul Simon's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time.
What Libra means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Paul Simon was born on October 13, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Paul Simon's birth date, October 13, 1941, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Paul Simon's timed chart: Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 10th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Simon's timed chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Paul Simon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Paul’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 0.6° orb
Paul’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 1.1° orb
Paul’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb
Paul’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 1.9° orb
SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
SunsquareMoonapplying · 2.5° orb
VenustrinePlutoapplying · 2.8° orb
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 3.1° orb
SunoppositionMarsseparating · 3.6° orb
VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 5.2° orb
VenusoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.3° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 6.2° orb
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironLeo 12°52′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°49′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 6°43′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 8°20′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°27′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mercury 1.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.7°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 2.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
T-square onto Moon · Sun, Mars, MoonAn 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.
- Moon sesquiquadrate Venus 0.8°
- Moon quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.9°
Paul’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 3 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 4 | Sun | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | Mercury | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 10 | Venus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 9 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 9 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 8 | Mars | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 4 | Saturn, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 3 | Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 11 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Libra, house 2 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Paul’s cards
Computed from October 13, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4028 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Unknown, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Simon at Wikipedia, paulsimon.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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 Simon.
Quick answers about Paul Simon’s chart
- How old is Paul Simon?
- Paul Simon is 85 years old, born October 13, 1941 in Newark, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Simon?
- Paul Simon is a Libra: born October 13, 1941, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time.
- What is Paul Simon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 13, 1941 birth.
- What time was Paul Simon born?
- 02:33 local time in Newark, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Paul Simon's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 02:33 birth time in Newark, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Paul Simon?
- Paul Simon is 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Paul Simon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Simon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Simon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Simon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
