Sam Claflin
Sam Claflin (born June 27, 1986, Ipswich, United Kingdom), aged 40, is a British actor. Notable films include Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Peaky Blinders and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Sam Claflin’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam Claflin’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 381 American boys and 8 girls named Sam in 1986: 441st among boys and 8,329th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sam’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
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
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, 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
Study took Sam Claflin to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and City College Norwich.
Sam Claflin was 24 when the work began in 2010.
On the family side, Sam Claflin was married Laura Haddock.
Wikipedia files Sam Claflin under People educated at City College Norwich, Male actors from Norwich and Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Drake Bell shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, City College Norwich and Technical University of Babahoyo
- Working from
- 2010
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 44
What the chart says
Sam, according to the stars
Core essence
Sam feels the room before entering it. The core of Sam is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Sam, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Sam is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Sam needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Sam wants to be loved
Sam 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 Sam openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Sam creates
How Sam makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sam 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: Sam 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Sam is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Sam does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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
Dedicate a star to Sam Claflin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ipswich 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 Ipswich that night
Computed for 52.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ipswich at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 6.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 52.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ipswich at all: they sit past the −37.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -2° below the horizon, Moon down and 62% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ipswich, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Chiswick
Wikidata records Chiswick as Sam Claflin's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sam Claflin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sam's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · No Air planets · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Sam Claflin's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 27, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Sam Claflin was born on June 27, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Sam Claflin's birth date, June 27, 1986, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Claflin's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Sam Claflin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Pisces 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Sam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrinePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Sam’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb
Sam’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.3° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.5° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 5.1° to 17.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°54′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 16°51′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 25°46′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 8°35′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°28′ (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 sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.9°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
Configurations in Sam’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Born the same day as Sam
Drake Bell was born on June 27, 1986 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 52.1°N, Ipswich keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Sam
Other actors
- Robert Pattinson1986
- Emmy Rossum1986
- Megan Fox1986
- Jodie Turner-Smith1986
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph1986
- Brittany Furlan1986
Born in United Kingdom
- James NortonBritish actor
- Ed WestwickEnglish actor and musician
- Marina DiamandisBritish singer
- James MaynardBritish mathematician
- Wayne RooneyEnglish footballer and manager
- Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyBritish model
More charts like Sam’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Kaylee McKeownAustralian swimmer
- Natalia GrossmanAmerican sport climber
- Zion WilliamsonAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Born in Tiger years
- Paul EhrlichJewish-German physician and scientist
- John BerrymanAmerican poet and scholar
- Daniel J. BoorstinAmerican historian
Also born on June 27
- Tobey Maguire1975
- Khloé Kardashian1984
- Vera Wang1949
- Wagner Moura1976
- Matthieu Blazy1984
- Drake Bell1986
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- LizzoAmerican singer and rapper
- Damon AlbarnBritish musician
- Mackenzie FoyAmerican actress
Other Cancer Tiger charts
- Darnay HolmesAmerican football cornerback
- Tyrel DodsonAmerican football linebacker
- Tershawn WhartonAmerican football defensive tackle
- Alaric Jacksonfootball player (born 1998)
Other Tidal Diplomats
- AJ DybantsaAmerican basketball player (born 2007)
- Whitney LeavittAmerican social media personality
- Miriam AdelsonAmerican-Israeli physician and business billionaire (born in 1945)
- Leonid FedunRussian businessman
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Maria SharapovaRussian tennis player
- Shirin EbadiIranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Hayao MiyazakiJapanese animator, film director, and mangaka
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Sam’s cards
Computed from June 27, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q366833 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Claflin at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sam Claflin.
Quick answers about Sam Claflin’s chart
- How old is Sam Claflin?
- Sam Claflin is 40 years old, born June 27, 1986 in Ipswich, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Sam Claflin?
- Sam Claflin is a Cancer: born June 27, 1986, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Sam Claflin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 27, 1986 birth.
- What is Sam Claflin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam Claflin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sam Claflin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam Claflin's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
