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Paul Watson

Paul Watson (born July 13, 1959, Weston, Canada), aged 67, is a Canadian photojournalist. Watson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and George Polk Award.

Paul Watson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Paul Watson’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

8 · 2 · 5

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Citrine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia

Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta

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 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 cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Paul needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Paul creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Paul is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Paul fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Paul

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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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.

Paul Watson at a glance

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Paul Watson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 13, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Paul Watson was born on July 13, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Paul Watson's birth date, July 13, 1959, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Paul Watson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.5° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.5° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun in Cancer · 20°31′20°Moon in Libra · 22°40′22°Mercury in Leo · 16°06′16°Venus in Virgo · 4°00′Mars in Leo · 25°48′25°Jupiter in Scorpio · 22°12′ · retrograde22°Saturn in Capricorn · 2°31′ · retrogradeUranus in Leo · 15°02′15°Neptune in Scorpio · 4°11′ · retrogradePluto in Virgo · 2°32′

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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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.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Paul’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 1.9° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.1° to 1.8° orb

    Paul’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter1.2° to 2.2° orb

    Paul’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Paul’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.3° to 3.9° orb

    Paul’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.8° to 6.5° orb

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

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.4° to 7.0° orb

    Paul’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ChironAquarius 26°49′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Paul making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresScorpio 15°03′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Paul is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ErosVirgo 20°50′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Paul is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • HygieaCancer 19°04′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Paul is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Paul is read as immovable on those points.

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.

  • Ceres square Uranus 0.0°
  • Eros sextile Sun 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 1.0°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.4°

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. Pluto6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Sun4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Paul is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Watson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Paul’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Strength

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yin Earth

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Paul Watson, 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 Q15452431, 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.

The same Paul Watson 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 Watson.

Quick answers about Paul Watson’s chart

How old is Paul Watson?
Paul Watson is 67 years old, born July 13, 1959 in Weston, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Paul Watson?
Paul Watson is a Cancer: born July 13, 1959, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
What is Paul Watson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 13, 1959 birth.
What time was Paul Watson 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 Watson's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 13, 1959 birth date.
What is Paul Watson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 13, 1959 birth date.
Where is Paul Watson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paul Watson's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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