Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970, Studio City, United States), aged 56, is an American filmmaker (born 1970). Anderson's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Cannes Best Director Award and Golden Bear.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Thomas Anderson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
Of the names registered in 1970, Paul came 23rd among boys and 1,222nd among girls, carried by 20,196 American boys and 92 girls.
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
22 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
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 1970, 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
Paul Thomas Anderson took the Golden Bear in 2000, at 30.
Montclair College Preparatory School and John Thomas Dye School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1988, at 18.
Paul Thomas Anderson was born to Ernie Anderson and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Paul Thomas Anderson: Emerson College alumni, Directors of Golden Bear winners and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners.
The same date carries Chris O'Donnell and Nick Offerman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Montclair College Preparatory School, John Thomas Dye School and Cushing Academy
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Director (2026), Golden Bear (2000) and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (2026)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Director and European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- Working from
- 1988
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul feels the room before entering it. The core of Paul is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Paul, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Paul needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Paul openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Paul creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Paul does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Thomas Anderson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Studio City 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 Studio City that night
Computed for 34.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Studio City at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Boötes.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Studio City on any night.
The Moon, 39% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Paul Thomas Anderson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 26, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Paul Thomas Anderson was born on June 26, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Paul Thomas Anderson's birth date, June 26, 1970, 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 Thomas Anderson's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Paul Thomas Anderson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Aries 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Paul’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.0° to 3.0° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.3° to 4.3° orb
Paul’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 1.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.6° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 4.3° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareSaturnorb from 6.4° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ ChironAries 10°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 26°19′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°15′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°25′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.7°
- Eros opposition Mars 1.8°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 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 biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Born the same day as Paul
2 other people here were born on June 26, 1970, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 34.1°N, the sky above Studio City stops at −55.9° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Paul’s cards
Computed from June 26, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
22 · Master Builder☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q25132 (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 Lyn Fairly Media, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Thomas Anderson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Thomas Anderson.
Quick answers about Paul Thomas Anderson’s chart
- How old is Paul Thomas Anderson?
- Paul Thomas Anderson is 56 years old, born June 26, 1970 in Studio City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Thomas Anderson?
- Paul Thomas Anderson is a Cancer: born June 26, 1970, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Thomas Anderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 26, 1970 birth.
- What is Paul Thomas Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Thomas Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Thomas Anderson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Thomas Anderson's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
