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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, Chinese zodiac is 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 1913

2006

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1947, Paulo came 2,227th, carried by 13 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Paulo’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 O (6). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Paulo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Paulo apart

Jorge Luis Borges (1899) and Rupert Grint (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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. Working below.

Where Paulo sits

Six lines

Paulo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rio de Janeiro on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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 →

Read from the sky above Rio de Janeiro at 00:05, Paulo Coelho’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Rio de Janeiro that night

Computed for 22.91°S, at the documented birth time.

Deneb Algedi stood nearest the zenith over Rio de Janeiro at the birth hour, 79.6° above the horizon in Capricornus.

Of the 65 catalog stars above the horizon, Canopus was the brightest.

From 22.9°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Sun 78° below the horizon, Moon up and 56% lit at first quarter.

What Paulo's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Commander 七殺 in 申

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 6/3

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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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.

What Virgo means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Paulo’s chart

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.3° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.4° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Virgo · 0°07′ · house 5☉0°Moon in Sagittarius · 6°52′ · house 8☽6°Mercury in Leo · 25°02′ · house 4☿25°Venus in Leo · 27°15′ · house 4♀27°Mars in Cancer · 6°40′ · house 3♂6°Jupiter in Scorpio · 19°55′ · house 7♃19°Saturn in Leo · 14°47′ · house 4♄14°Uranus in Gemini · 25°31′ · house 2♅25°Neptune in Libra · 9°06′ · house 6♆9°Pluto in Leo · 13°30′ · house 4♇13°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 28°08′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 28°08′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 2°38′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 2°38′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
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

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 2.2° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 2.4° orb

  • SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 2.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.4° orb

  • SunsextileUranusseparating · 4.6° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 5.1° orb

  • MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 5.1° orb

  • JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb

  • JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 6.4° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoapplying · 6.6° orb

  • SunsquareMoonseparating · 6.7° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 4°46′ · House 7

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 8°43′ · House 1

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 10°56′ · House 8

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 25°33′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°56′ · House 9

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Paulo’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun8 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Paulo’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon quincunx Mars 0.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°

Paulo’s houses

Paulo’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Leo, house 4emptyself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Leo, house 4Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 8Marsmind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Virgo, house 5Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Plutohome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Leo, house 4Suncreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Leo, house 4Neptunework, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 4Jupiterpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 7Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 4emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Gemini, house 2emptycareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Cancer, house 3emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Paulo’s cards

Computed from August 24, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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 comes from, and how it is worked out

Paulo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q12881 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paulo Coelho.

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.
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.
What is Paulo Coelho's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 4°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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