Sam Altman
Sam Altman (born Samuel Harris Altman; April 22, 1985, Chicago, United States, 05:00), aged 41, is an American venture capitalist. Altman is best known for Hydrazine Capital. Altman's honours include honorary doctorate and Axel Springer Award.
Sam Altman’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam Altman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Sam in the U.S.?
#647
US rank in 2025
~128,810
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 348 American boys and 11 girls named Sam in 1985: 461st among boys and 6,360th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sam’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Samuel Harris Altman, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
White · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1985, 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 Sam apart
Robert Oppenheimer (1904) and Jack Nicholson (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Sam, according to the stars
Core essence
Sam 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 Sam 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, Sam is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Sam needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Sam wants to be loved
Sam wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Sam creates
How Sam makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Sam creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Sam is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Sam is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Sam is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Sam's birth date. Working below.
Where Sam sits
Six lines
Sam’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Sam Altman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Chicago at 05:00, Sam Altman’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 83.2° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°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 Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 4% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 0° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Samuel Harris Altman
- Known as
- Sam Altman
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
- Lives in
- San Francisco
Wikidata records San Francisco as Sam Altman's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Chicago, Shared Places reads San Francisco as demanding for this chart: 33 of 100, 171st of 176 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Buenos Aires, Argentina, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Sam's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 丑.
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde · Venus retrograde
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Sam Altman's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Sam Altman was born on April 22, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Sam Altman's birth date, April 22, 1985, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Sam Altman's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 1st house, Mars in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Altman's timed chart is Moon opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Moon and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Sam Altman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Sam’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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.0° orb
Sam’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb
Sam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonconjunctionMarsapplying · 0.7° orb
Sam’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarsoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.8° orb
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.1° orb
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 1.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 1.7° orb
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 2.6° orb
JupitersextileUranusapplying · 3.5° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 4.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironGemini 5°59′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 9°56′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 1°40′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 5°20′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°27′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Ascendant 1.0°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.7°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.5°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Sam’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Moon, MarsThree 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Moon biquintile Neptune 1.0°
Sam’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 12 | Sun, Moon, Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 12 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 1 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 12 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 7 | Saturn, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 10 | Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 7 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 8 | Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 1 | Mercury, Venus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Sam’s cards
Computed from April 22, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7407093 (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 Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sam Altman.
Quick answers about Sam Altman’s chart
- How old is Sam Altman?
- Sam Altman is 41 years old, born April 22, 1985 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sam Altman?
- Sam Altman is a Taurus: born April 22, 1985, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
- What is Sam Altman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 22, 1985 birth.
- What time was Sam Altman born?
- 05:00 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Sam Altman's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 05:00 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Sam Altman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam Altman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sam Altman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam Altman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
