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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Paul Zindel in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Paul Zindel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Pisces 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.
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
Paul’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb
Paul’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
Paul’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb
Paul’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
Paul’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.1° orb
Paul’s core identity and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°01′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Paul turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 22°38′ (moves 0.22° 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.
♡ ErosCancer 8°37′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Paul is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 2°06′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Paul needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Paul that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
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 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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Paul Zindel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Paul’s cards
Every card is computed from May 15, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Paul Zindel, 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 Q2063290, 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 Scan by NYPL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Zindel at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was Paul Zindel 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 was Paul Zindel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 15, 1936 birth date.
- What was Paul Zindel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 15, 1936 birth date.
- 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.
