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Paul Winfield

Paul Winfield (born May 22, 1939, Los Angeles, United States; died 2004), was an American actor. Winfield's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.

Paul Winfield’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Paul Winfield’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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 1939, 13,337 American boys and 47 girls were registered Paul — 17th among boys and 1,049th 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

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

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series came in 1995, when Paul Winfield was 56.

Study took Paul Winfield to Manual Arts High School and Los Angeles City College.

Paul Winfield was 26 when the work began in 1965.

The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.

On Wikipedia the categories read University of Portland alumni, Los Angeles City College alumni and Stanford University alumni.

Novak Djokovic (1987) and Naomi Campbell (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles City College and University of Portland
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (1995)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1965
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Buried at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
38

What the chart says

Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Paul is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Paul needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Paul is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Paul needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Paul wants to be loved

Paul wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Paul is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Paul creates

How Paul makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Paul creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Paul is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Paul is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Paul does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Paul Winfield

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

Los Angeles sits at 34.1°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 −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 20% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Los Angeles, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2004.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Winfield: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Paul's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3 planets at a critical degree · T-square onto Venus

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.

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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Paul Winfield's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 22, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Paul Winfield was born on May 22, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Paul Winfield's birth date, May 22, 1939, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Paul’s chart

Paul’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.5° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.7° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbSun in Gemini · 0°49′☉0°Moon in Cancer · 18°53′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 13°47′☿13°Venus in Taurus · 2°42′♀2°Mars in Capricorn · 29°19′♂29°Jupiter in Aries · 2°06′♃2°Saturn in Aries · 26°00′♄25°Uranus in Taurus · 18°36′♅18°Neptune in Virgo · 20°34′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Cancer · 29°34′♇29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto0.1° to 0.4° orb

    Paul’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.8° to 1.7° orb

    Paul’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb

    Paul’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableSuntrineMars1.2° to 1.8° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.7° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn3.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.9° to 5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 7°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 23°54′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 25°52′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 12°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.1°

Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Paul’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°

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Paul’s cards

Computed from May 22, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q344576 (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 NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paul Winfield at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Winfield.

Quick answers about Paul Winfield’s chart

What zodiac sign was Paul Winfield?
Paul Winfield was a Gemini: born May 22, 1939, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Paul Winfield's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 22, 1939 birth.
What was Paul Winfield's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Paul Winfield's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Paul Winfield's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Paul Winfield's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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