How old is Paulo Coelho?

Paulo Coelho is 79 years old, born August 24, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

What zodiac sign is Paulo Coelho?

Paulo Coelho is a Virgo: born August 24, 1947, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.

What is Paulo Coelho's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1947 birth.

What time was Paulo Coelho born?

00:05 local time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).

What is Paulo Coelho's rising sign?

Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 00:05 birth time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).

What is Paulo Coelho's Life Path number?

Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 24, 1947 birth date.

What is Paulo Coelho's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Scorpio at 4°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 24, 1947 birth time.

Where is Paulo Coelho's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Paulo Coelho's dominant planet?

Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 00:05), aged 79, is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Coelho is best known for Aleph, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and The Witch of Portobello. Coelho's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of Arts and Letters and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

Paulo Coelho’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Paulo Coelho’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Paulo in the U.S.?

#1559

US rank in 2025

~5,031

Americans share it since 1880

2006

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Paulo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 5

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Lilac · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Paulo, according to the stars

Core essence

Paulo 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 Paulo is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Paulo is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Paulo needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Paulo wants to be loved

Paulo 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 Paulo openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Paulo creates

How Paulo 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. Paulo 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: Paulo is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Paulo is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Paulo does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Paulo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Paulo sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Paulo

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Paulo

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Paulo

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Paulo

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary

Paulo

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Paulo

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Paulo’s birth-sky starDeneb Algediwhite · CapricornusDeneb Algedi, in Capricornus. A white star, 79.6° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb Algedi →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 11.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Paulo Coelho's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time. 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.

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Paulo Coelho was born on August 24, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Paulo Coelho's birth date, August 24, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Paulo’s chart

Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Paulo Coelho's timed chart: Mercury in the 4th house, Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 7th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
The tightest major aspect in Paulo Coelho's timed chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
Paulo Coelho combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.

Paulo’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantTaurus

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

MercurysextileUranusapplying · 0.5° orb
Paulo’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
Paulo’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussextileUranusseparating · 1.7° orb
Paulo’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
MoonsextileNeptuneapplying · 2.2° orb
Paulo’s feelings open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 2.2° orb
Paulo’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 2.4° orb
Paulo’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 2.9° orb
Paulo’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.4° orb
Paulo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextileUranusseparating · 4.6° orb
Paulo’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 5.1° orb
Paulo’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 5.1° orb
Paulo’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb
Paulo’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 6.4° orb
Paulo’s growth grinds against their depths.
MoontrinePlutoapplying · 6.6° orb
Paulo’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunsquareMoonseparating · 6.7° orb
Paulo’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire5 of 10
Earth1 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed5 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

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

Paulo’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.

⚷ ChironScorpio 4°46′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Paulo carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°43′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Paulo is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°56′ · House 8
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 Paulo attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 25°33′ · House 2
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 Paulo needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°56′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Paulo is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.0°
Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.5°
Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
Eros sextile Neptune 1.8°
Chiron trine Mars 1.9°
Ceres sextile Mars 2.0°
Eros trine Pluto 2.6°

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°).

Paulo’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Paulo is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Paulo’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium in Leo · Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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 quincunx Mars 0.2°
Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.9°
Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°

Paulo’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Taurus	Venus in Leo, house 4	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Gemini	Mercury in Leo, house 4	Uranus	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Cancer	Moon in Sagittarius, house 8	Mars	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Leo	Sun in Virgo, house 5	Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto	home, family, roots
5	Virgo	Mercury in Leo, house 4	Sun	creativity, romance, play
6	Libra	Venus in Leo, house 4	Neptune	work, habits, health
7	Scorpio	Pluto in Leo, house 4	Jupiter	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Scorpio, house 7	Moon	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Capricorn	Saturn in Leo, house 4	empty	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Aquarius	Uranus in Gemini, house 2	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Pisces	Neptune in Libra, house 6	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Aries	Mars in Cancer, house 3	empty	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Paulo’s cards

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Pig 亥

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Paulo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q12881, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Lula Oficial, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Paulo Coelho at Wikipedia, paulocoelhoblog.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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.

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Quick answers about Paulo Coelho’s chart

How old is Paulo Coelho?: Paulo Coelho is 79 years old, born August 24, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
What zodiac sign is Paulo Coelho?: Paulo Coelho is a Virgo: born August 24, 1947, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
What is Paulo Coelho's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1947 birth.
What time was Paulo Coelho born?: 00:05 local time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Paulo Coelho's rising sign?: Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 00:05 birth time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Paulo Coelho's Life Path number?: Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 24, 1947 birth date.
What is Paulo Coelho's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Scorpio at 4°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 24, 1947 birth time.
Where is Paulo Coelho's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Paulo Coelho's dominant planet?: Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Paulo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Paulo, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Paulo wants to be loved

How Paulo creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Fire Pig

Life Path 8

What stands out in Paulo’s chart

Paulo’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Paulo’s dominant planets

Configurations in Paulo’s chart

Minor aspects

Paulo’s houses

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