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Paul Walker

Paul Walker (born September 12, 1973, Glendale, United States, 05:59; died 2013), was an American actor. Walker is best remembered for Fast & Furious. Walker's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo.

Paul Walker’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Paul Walker’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, 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

In 1973, 12,901 American boys and 77 girls were registered Paul — 24th among boys and 1,326th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Paul’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

2

Personality · warm, careful

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

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, 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

Fast & Furious. That is the work the name is attached to.

The schooling ran through Village Christian School (California).

Paul Walker was 11 when the work began in 1984.

The record gives single-vehicle accident as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.

Paul Walker was born to Paul Walker III and raised one child.

Janelle Brown and Tarana Burke shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Fast & Furious
Educated at
Village Christian School (California)
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (2002)
Working from
1984
Cause of death
single-vehicle accident
Buried at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Sport
auto racing
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
100

What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Paul notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Paul is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Paul is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Paul needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Paul gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Paul creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Paul is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Paul

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Paul

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

PrivateExpressive
Paul

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Paul

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Paul

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Glendale at 05:59, Paul Walker’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Glendale that night

Computed for 34.17°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Glendale was Menkib, in Perseus, 82.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Glendale sits at 34.2°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 −55.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Glendale, United States

The death is recorded at Valencia, Santa Clarita in 2013.

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What Paul's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微 in 午

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Saturn · Born on the Full Moon · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Paul Walker's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Water Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Paul Walker was born on September 12, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Paul Walker's birth date, September 12, 1973, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 1.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.7° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.6° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.7° orbSun in Virgo · 19°37′ · house 1☉19°Moon in Pisces · 18°27′ · house 7☽18°Mercury in Virgo · 28°02′ · house 1☿28°Venus in Libra · 29°01′ · house 2♀29°Mars in Taurus · 8°52′ · house 9♂8°Jupiter in Aquarius · 2°42′ · house 6 · retrograde♃℞2°Saturn in Cancer · 3°40′ · house 11♄3°Uranus in Libra · 21°21′ · house 2♅21°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°52′ · house 4♆4°Pluto in Libra · 3°43′ · house 2♇3°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 11°26′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 11°26′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 9°34′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 9°34′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 0.0° orb

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

  • JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb

    Paul’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb

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

  • SunoppositionMoonapplying · 1.2° orb

  • JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 2.2° orb

  • VenussquareJupiterapplying · 3.7° orb

  • VenustrineSaturnapplying · 4.6° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 4.7° orb

  • MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 5.6° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 5.7° orb

  • MarssquareJupiterseparating · 6.2° orb

  • VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°53′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°12′ · House 4

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 25°11′ · House 2

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 14°25′ · House 6

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°06′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Ascendant 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°

Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus8 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Paul’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°

Paul’s houses

Paul’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 1Sun, Mercuryself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Libra, house 2Venus, Uranus, Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 2emptymind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 6Neptunehome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 11emptycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Libra, house 2Jupiterwork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 4Moonpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Taurus, house 9emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Libra, house 2Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 1emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Pisces, house 7Saturnfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Virgo, house 1emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Born the same day as Paul

2 other people here were born on September 12, 1973, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Glendale sits at 34.2°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Paul’s cards

Computed from September 12, 1973. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q213864 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Andre Luis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Walker at Wikipedia, paulwalkerfoundation.org, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Walker.

Quick answers about Paul Walker’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul Walker?
Paul Walker was a Virgo: born September 12, 1973, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What was Paul Walker's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1973 birth.
What time was Paul Walker born?
05:59 local time in Glendale, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Paul Walker's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 05:59 birth time in Glendale, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was Paul Walker?
Paul Walker was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Paul Walker's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Paul Walker's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 19°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Paul Walker's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Paul Walker's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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