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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~1,404,135
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
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Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Paul Starr in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paul Starr, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Paul’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Paul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 4.3° orb
Paul’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarssquarePluto4.5° to 5.2° orb
Paul’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.6° to 6.9° orb
Paul’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°02′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Paul building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 18°32′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Paul is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 14°47′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Paul is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°47′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Paul is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Paul carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.9°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Paul’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Paul is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Starr, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from May 12, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paul Starr, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7153769, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Alasdairroberts, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Starr at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Paul Starr born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Paul Starr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1949 birth date.
- What is Paul Starr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
