Paul Williams
Paul Williams (born September 19, 1940, Omaha, United States), aged 86, is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. Williams is best known for Smokey and the Bandit, Phantom of the Paradise and Just an Old Fashioned Love Song. Williams's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album.
Paul Williams’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Williams’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 1940, Paul came 17th among boys and 986th among girls, carried by 14,097 American boys and 53 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 1940, 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
What keeps Paul Williams in print: We've Only Just Begun, Just an Old Fashioned Love Song and Smokey and the Bandit.
Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and University of California, Los Angeles shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1964, at 24.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Paul Williams: Wilson Classical High School alumni, American substance abuse counselors and Musicians from Omaha, Nebraska.
The same date carries Zandra Rhodes. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- We've Only Just Begun, Just an Old Fashioned Love Song and Smokey and the Bandit
- Educated at
- Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and University of California, Los Angeles
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Song (1977), Grammy Award for Song of the Year (1976) and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (1977)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1964
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
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.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Paul creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Paul is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Paul channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Williams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Omaha 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 Omaha that night
Computed for 41.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Omaha at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.7° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Omaha at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 90% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · No Water planets
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 →Paul Williams at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Paul Williams's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 19, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Paul Williams was born on September 19, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Paul Williams's birth date, September 19, 1940, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Williams' date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Williams combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Aries or Taurus 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Paul’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.7° orb
Paul’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb
Paul’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.9° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.6° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 29°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 22°46′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°38′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 28°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Sun 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.1°
- Eros square Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.8°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.9°
Born the same day as Paul
Zandra Rhodes was born on September 19, 1940 too, 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 41.3°N, the sky above Omaha stops at −48.7° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Paul
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Born in United States
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More charts like Paul’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- John BetjemanEnglish poet, writer and broadcaster
- Reed WhittemoreAmerican poet
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Born in Dragon years
- Charles WarrenAmerican legal scholar
- Edgar Ansel MowrerAmerican journalist
- Lewis SpratlanAmerican music academic
Also born on September 19
- William Golding1911
- Jimmy Fallon1974
- Twiggy1949
- Halima Aden1997
- Rachel Sennott1995
- Zandra Rhodes1940
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Damian PenaudFrench rugby union player (1996-)
- Hardik PandyaIndian cricketer
- Kane WilliamsonNew Zealand cricketer
Other Virgo Dragon charts
- Jakorian BennettAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Christian BenfordAmerican football cornerback
- Zay FlowersAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Kyren WilliamsAmerican football running back
Other Evergreen Healers
- Aidan O'BrienIrish Thoroughbred trainer
- Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsornoblewoman; daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orangeheir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Prince Gabriel of Belgiumelder son and second child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
Famous people with Life Path 6
- JC LathamAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Tyjae SpearsAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Jack BechAmerican football player (born 2002)
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Paul’s cards
Computed from September 19, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q927415 (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 A&M Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Williams at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Williams.
Quick answers about Paul Williams’s chart
- How old is Paul Williams?
- Paul Williams is 86 years old, born September 19, 1940 in Omaha, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paul Williams?
- Paul Williams is a Virgo: born September 19, 1940, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Paul Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 19, 1940 birth.
- What is Paul Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paul Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paul Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paul Williams's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
