Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson (born December 17, 1974, Tampa, United States, 23:05), aged 51, is an American actress. Notable films include 12 Years a Slave, Grey's Anatomy and American Horror Story. Paulson's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Sarah Paulson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
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Sarah Paulson’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Sarah in the U.S.?
#90
US rank in 2025
~1,101,838
Americans share it since 1880
1982
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sarah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sarah, according to the stars
Core essence
Sarah is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Sarah is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Sarah needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Sarah needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Sarah wants to be loved
Sarah wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Sarah you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Sarah creates
How Sarah makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sarah creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Sarah is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sarah is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Sarah has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Sarah's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sarah sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Sarah Paulson's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Sarah Paulson was born on December 17, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Sarah Paulson's birth date, December 17, 1974, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Sarah’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Sarah Paulson's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Mercury in the 4th house, Mars in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 7th house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Sarah Paulson's timed chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Sarah Paulson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Sarah’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.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 0.9° orb
Sarah’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.9° orb
Sarah’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb
Sarah’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussquarePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
Sarah’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 4.0° orb
Sarah’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussextileUranusseparating · 4.7° orb
Sarah’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
MarsconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
Sarah’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 5.8° orb
Sarah’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarssquareJupiterapplying · 6.1° orb
Sarah’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Sarah’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°02′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Sarah may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 9°37′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Sarah is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCancer 20°59′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Sarah is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAries 25°30′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Sarah feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 24°32′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Sarah at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres square Neptune 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Ascendant 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
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°).
Sarah’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♃ Jupiter11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; angular in the fourth house; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Sarah is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Sarah’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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 Saturn 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Moon quintile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.1°
Sarah’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 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 4 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 5 | Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 2 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Pisces, house 7 | Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Cancer, house 11 | Venus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 3 | Moon | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 4 | Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 6 | Saturn | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 4 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Sarah’s cards
Every card is computed from December 17, 1974, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Sarah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q257442, 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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sarah Paulson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Sarah Paulson’s chart
- How old is Sarah Paulson?
- Sarah Paulson is 51 years old, born December 17, 1974 in Tampa, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sarah Paulson?
- Sarah Paulson is a Sagittarius: born December 17, 1974, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger.
- What is Sarah Paulson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 17, 1974 birth.
- What time was Sarah Paulson born?
- 23:05 local time in Tampa, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Sarah Paulson's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 23:05 birth time in Tampa, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Sarah Paulson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 17, 1974 birth date.
- What is Sarah Paulson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 17, 1974 birth time.
- Where is Sarah Paulson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 24°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sarah Paulson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
