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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Paul sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paul Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Paul’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.7° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.5° to 4.6° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.2° to 4.8° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 5.8° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.8° orb
Paul’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus5.9° to 6.5° orb
Paul’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.6° to 7.0° orb
Paul’s core identity and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 29°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Paul is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLibra 22°46′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Paul is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°38′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Paul attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 28°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Paul needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Paul carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Paul is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Williams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Paul
Zandra Rhodes was born on September 19, 1940 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from September 19, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paul Williams, 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 Q927415, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Paul Williams 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 Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 19, 1940 birth date.
- What is Paul Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 19, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
