Paul Sorvino
Paul Sorvino (born April 13, 1939, Bensonhurst, United States; died 2022), was an American actor. Sorvino's honours include Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Paul Sorvino’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Sorvino’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 17th among boys and 1,049th among girls in 1939, the year of this birth, with 13,337 American boys and 47 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3).
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
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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 1939, 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
Training came by way of William Esper Studio and Lafayette High School.
The working life starts in 1956, at 17.
The grave is at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Paul Sorvino was married Lorraine Davis and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Paul Sorvino under Male actors from Teaneck, New Jersey, American poets of Italian descent and Sorvino family.
The same date carries Seamus Heaney. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- William Esper Studio, Lafayette High School and American Musical and Dramatic Academy
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- Working from
- 1956
- Buried at
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Italian and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Paul is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Paul needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Paul, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Paul is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Paul does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bensonhurst 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 Bensonhurst that night
Computed for 40.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Bensonhurst at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 2.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 28% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · No Air planets · 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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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Paul Sorvino's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Paul Sorvino was born on April 13, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Paul Sorvino's birth date, April 13, 1939, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Sorvino's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Sorvino combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Paul’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 2.0° orb
Paul’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.8° to 3.1° orb
Paul’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileMars2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.9° to 6.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars6.1° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.3° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 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, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°58′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 8°10′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces or Aries during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 10°53′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 12°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Pluto 0.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.7°
Born the same day as Paul
Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Bensonhurst, at 40.6°N, nothing below −49.4° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Paul
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- Paul Winfield1939
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- Ian McKellen1939
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Born in United States
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on April 13
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- Samuel Beckett1906
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- M. J. StewartAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Tee HigginsAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Nico CollinsAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Aries Rabbit charts
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- John VaneEnglish pharmacologist
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Vivien LeighBritish actress
- Edwin HubbleAmerican astronomer
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Neil SimonAmerican playwright, writer, and academic
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Paul’s cards
Computed from April 13, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
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 Q447892 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Sorvino 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 Sorvino.
Quick answers about Paul Sorvino’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Sorvino?
- Paul Sorvino was an Aries: born April 13, 1939, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Sorvino's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1939 birth.
- How tall was Paul Sorvino?
- Paul Sorvino was 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Paul Sorvino's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Sorvino's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Sorvino's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Sorvino's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
