Sam Darnold
Sam Darnold (born June 5, 1997, Capistrano Beach, United States), aged 29, is an American football player (born 1997). Darnold has played for New York Jets, Seattle Seahawks and Minnesota Vikings. Darnold's honours include Archie Griffin Award.
Sam Darnold’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam Darnold’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
Sam ranked 458th among boys and 15,634th among girls in 1997, the year of this birth, with 484 American boys and 5 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sam’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
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
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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 1997, 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
Sam Darnold took the Archie Griffin Award in 2016, at 19.
San Clemente High School and University of Southern California shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Sam Darnold under Sportspeople from San Clemente, California, San Clemente High School (California) alumni and People from Dana Point, California.
The same date carries Liam McCullough. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- San Clemente High School and University of Southern California
- Awards
- Archie Griffin Award (2016)
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Sam, according to the stars
Core essence
Sam is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Sam needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Sam processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Sam needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Sam wants to be loved
Sam wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Sam gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Sam creates
How Sam makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Sam creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sam is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sam leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Sam channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Sam Darnold
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Capistrano Beach 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 Capistrano Beach that night
Computed for 33.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Capistrano Beach at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.6° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −56.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Capistrano Beach on any night.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.
How unusual Sam's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Sam Darnold's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 5, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Ox
Fire OxStubborn, and usually right.
Sam Darnold was born on June 5, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Sam Darnold's birth date, June 5, 1997, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Darnold's date-only chart is Mercury trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Sam Darnold combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Sam’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 3.5° orb
Sam’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.2° to 3.0° orb
Sam’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.2° to 5.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.2° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 25°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 11°02′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 22°39′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°20′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.7°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Sam’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 2.3°
Born the same day as Sam
Liam McCullough was born on June 5, 1997 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 33.5°N, the sky above Capistrano Beach stops at −56.5° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Sam’s cards
Computed from June 5, 1997. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q27049069 (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 Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Darnold at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sam Darnold.
Quick answers about Sam Darnold’s chart
- How old is Sam Darnold?
- Sam Darnold is 29 years old, born June 5, 1997 in Capistrano Beach, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sam Darnold?
- Sam Darnold is a Gemini: born June 5, 1997, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Sam Darnold's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 5, 1997 birth.
- How tall is Sam Darnold?
- Sam Darnold is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Sam Darnold's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam Darnold's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sam Darnold's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam Darnold's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
