Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 74, is an American playwright. Vogel is best known for How I Learned to Drive. Vogel's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Paula Vogel’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Paula
Paula Vogel’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Paula in the U.S.?
#855
US rank in 2025
~281,769
Americans share it since 1880
1963
its peak year
The SSA recorded 7,290 American girls and 8 boys named Paula in 1951: 51st among girls and 3,010th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paula’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on P (7) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Paula’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The record
What sets Paula apart
José Saramago (1922) and Chinua Achebe (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Paula, according to the stars
Core essence
Paula does not do surface. The core of Paula is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Paula is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Paula wants to be loved
Paula wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Paula gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Paula creates
How Paula makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Paula creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Paula 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Paula is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Paula 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 Paula's birth date. Working below.
Where Paula sits
Six lines
Paula’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Mirach, in Andromeda, 82.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 89% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Paula's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Paula Vogel's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 16, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Paula Vogel was born on November 16, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Paula Vogel's birth date, November 16, 1951, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Paula’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paula Vogel's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paula Vogel combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Paula’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.5° to 1.8° orb
Paula’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Paula’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb
Paula’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.9° to 2.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.2° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.8° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Paula’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 0°43′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 4°14′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 29°51′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 9°07′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 15°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.4°
Paula’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Paula’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
More people like Paula
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on November 16
- José Saramago1922
- Chinua Achebe1930
- Lisa Bonet1967
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- Mohammad Rasoulof1972
- Brandi Glanville1972
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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Other Scorpio Rabbit charts
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- Barbara CookAmerican actress and singer
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Other Gilded Lightkeepers
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Paula’s cards
Computed from November 16, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paula’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q433987 (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 User:Alan Safier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paula Vogel 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 Paula Vogel.
Quick answers about Paula Vogel’s chart
- How old is Paula Vogel?
- Paula Vogel is 74 years old, born November 16, 1951 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Paula Vogel?
- Paula Vogel is a Scorpio: born November 16, 1951, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Paula Vogel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 16, 1951 birth.
- What is Paula Vogel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Paula Vogel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Paula Vogel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Paula Vogel's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
