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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Paul
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
Paul ranked 12th among boys and 648th among girls in 1930, the year of this birth, with 12,955 American boys and 114 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
11
Soul Urge · insight
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as 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
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 record
What sets Paul apart
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Josh Radnor (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Paul sits
Six lines
Paul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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
Dedicate a star to Paul Taylor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wilkinsburg 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 Wilkinsburg that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wilkinsburg was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 74.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.4°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 −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 24% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves 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.
What Leo means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Paul Taylor was born on July 29, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Paul Taylor's birth date, July 29, 1930, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Taylor's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Paul Taylor combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.5° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 7°01′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 12°21′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 7°11′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
- Josh Radnor1974
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Paul’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
22 · Master Builder☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
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 Q2916069 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Paul Taylor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Taylor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
