Paul Starr
Paul Starr (born May 12, 1949, New York City, United States), aged 77, is an American political writer. Starr's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and Bancroft Prize.
Paul Starr’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Starr’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, 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
The SSA recorded 21,589 American boys and 57 girls named Paul in 1949: 17th among boys and 1,206th among girls 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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
The Bancroft Prize came in 1984, when Paul Starr was 35.
Paul Starr was taught at Columbia University and Harvard University.
Wikipedia files Paul Starr under Medical sociologists, American sociologists and Princeton University faculty.
Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize (1984) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1984)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Paul is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Paul is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Paul creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Paul is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Paul is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City 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 10° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Saturn · No Water planets
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Paul Starr's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Paul Starr was born on May 12, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Paul Starr's birth date, May 12, 1949, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Starr's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Starr combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.5° to 1.7° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.9° to 1.8° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.6° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 1.5° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 18°32′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 14°47′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°47′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.9°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.9°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.6°
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Also born on May 12
- Rishi Sunak1980
- Dorothy Hodgkin1910
- George Carlin1937
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- Strive MasiyiwaZimbabwean businessman
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Paul’s cards
Computed from May 12, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7153769 (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 Alasdairroberts, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Starr 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 Starr.
Quick answers about Paul Starr’s chart
- How old is Paul Starr?
- Paul Starr is 77 years old, born May 12, 1949 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Starr?
- Paul Starr is a Taurus: born May 12, 1949, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Starr's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1949 birth.
- What is Paul Starr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Starr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Starr's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Starr's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
