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Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor (born July 29, 1930, Wilkinsburg, United States; died 2018), was an American choreographer. Taylor's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.

Paul Taylor’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Paul Taylor’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Gold · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Paul is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Paul is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Paul is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Paul scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Paul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Paul sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Paul

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Paul

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilkinsburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Paul Taylor's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Paul Taylor was born on July 29, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 22

Structure for the many.

Paul Taylor's birth date, July 29, 1930, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Paul Taylor, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.7° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.3° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.3° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.7° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.9° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 6.8° orbSun in Leo · 5°47′Moon in Virgo · 29°13′29°Mercury in Leo · 20°35′20°Venus in Virgo · 17°13′17°Mars in Gemini · 10°27′10°Jupiter in Cancer · 7°18′Saturn in Capricorn · 6°37′ · retrogradeUranus in Aries · 15°21′ · retrograde15°Neptune in Virgo · 2°17′Pluto in Cancer · 19°37′19°

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn0.6° to 0.8° orb

    Paul’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussextilePluto1.8° to 3.0° orb

    Paul’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranussquarePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

    Paul’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus4.3° to 6.1° orb

    Paul’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

    Paul’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.8° orb

    Paul’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussquareMars6.5° to 7.0° orb

    Paul’s affections grind against their drive.

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.2° to 14.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.0° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.4° to 16.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 4.4° to 18.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.

  • ChironTaurus 18°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Paul building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • CeresLeo 7°01′ (moves 0.45° 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.

  • ErosTaurus 12°21′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Paul wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • HygieaGemini 7°11′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Paul needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Paul at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.2°

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. 1. Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. Saturn4 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Paul is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Sun quincunx Saturn 0.8°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 1.9°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Taylor, 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 July 29, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

yang Metal

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yin Water

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Metal

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Paul Taylor, 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 Q2916069, 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 The original uploader was Noirish at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Taylor at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.

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 Taylor.

Quick answers about Paul Taylor’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul Taylor?
Paul Taylor was a Leo: born July 29, 1930, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
What was Paul Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1930 birth.
What time was Paul Taylor 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 was Paul Taylor's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the July 29, 1930 birth date.
What was Paul Taylor's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 29, 1930 birth date.
Where was Paul Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Paul Taylor's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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