Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel (born May 15, 1936, Tottenville, United States; died 2003), was an American dramatist and children's writer. Zindel is best remembered for The Pigman. Zindel's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Margaret Edwards Award and star on Playwrights' Sidewalk.
Paul Zindel’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Zindel’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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
The SSA recorded 12,307 American boys and 53 girls named Paul in 1936: 15th among boys and 948th among girls for the 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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Paul apart
Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Paul is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
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 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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Paul creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Paul is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Paul scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tottenville 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 Tottenville that night
Computed for 40.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Tottenville was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 76.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
Tottenville sits at 40.5°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 −49.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon down and 30% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Mercury
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Paul Zindel's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Paul Zindel was born on May 15, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Paul Zindel's birth date, May 15, 1936, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Zindel's date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul Zindel combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.3° orb
Paul’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.5° to 0.8° orb
Paul’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.9° to 2.1° orb
Paul’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°01′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 22°38′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 8°37′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 2°06′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Sun 2.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.0°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.8°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Paul’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2063290 (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 Scan by NYPL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Zindel at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul Zindel.
Quick answers about Paul Zindel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Zindel?
- Paul Zindel was a Taurus: born May 15, 1936, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Zindel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1936 birth.
- What was Paul Zindel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Zindel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Zindel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Zindel's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
