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Sam Heughan

Sam Heughan (born April 30, 1980, Balmaclellan, United Kingdom, 05:25), aged 46, is a Scottish actor. Notable films include Outlander, Bloodshot and The Spy Who Dumped Me. Heughan's honours include Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television.

Sam Heughan’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Sam Heughan’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 429th among boys and 5,826th among girls in 1980, the year of this birth, with 364 American boys and 12 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.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on M (4). 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

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Sam apart

Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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 feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Sam needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Sam wants to be loved

Sam wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Sam like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Sam creates

How Sam makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Sam creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Sam is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Sam is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sam fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Sam

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sam

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Sam

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sam

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Sam

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sam

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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

Sam’s birth-sky starGrumiumwarm orange · DracoGrumium, in Draco. A warm orange star, 83° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Grumium →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 12.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Balmaclellan at 05:25, Sam Heughan’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Balmaclellan that night

Computed for 55.09°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Balmaclellan at the birth hour: Grumium of Draco, within 7.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 55.1°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 Balmaclellan at all: they sit past the −34.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

What Sam's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Peacemaker 天同, The Debater 巨門 in 丑

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Outer world

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Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

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Chart pattern score

77 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Uranus · Born on the Full Moon · Grand trine

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Sam Heughan in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Sam Heughan's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Sam Heughan was born on April 30, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Sam Heughan's birth date, April 30, 1980, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Sam’s chart

Sam’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.5° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.3° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 1.5° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbSun in Taurus · 9°59′ · house 2☉9°Moon in Scorpio · 8°30′ · house 8☽8°Mercury in Aries · 25°40′ · house 1☿25°Venus in Gemini · 22°52′ · house 3♀22°Mars in Leo · 28°59′ · house 5♂28°Jupiter in Virgo · 0°16′ · house 6♃0°Saturn in Virgo · 20°37′ · house 6 · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Scorpio · 24°08′ · house 8 · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Sagittarius · 22°20′ · house 9 · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Libra · 19°51′ · house 7 · retrograde♇℞19°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAri 28°31′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLib 28°31′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 9°34′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 9°34′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantAries
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 0.5° orb

    Sam’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 1.3° orb

    Sam’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SunoppositionMoonapplying · 1.5° orb

    Sam’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb

  • VenussquareSaturnseparating · 2.3° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.5° orb

  • MercurysextileVenusseparating · 2.8° orb

  • VenustrinePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb

  • MercurytrineMarsapplying · 3.3° orb

  • MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 3.3° orb

  • SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 3.5° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 4.6° orb

  • MarssquareUranusseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 5.8° orb

  • JupitersquareUranusseparating · 6.1° orb

  • MarstrineNeptuneseparating · 6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 13°21′ · House 2

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 20°04′ · House 2

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 21°02′ · House 3

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°04′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°53′ · House 7

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Saturn 0.4°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.6°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.2°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 1.3°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 1.8°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.8°

Sam’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars9.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Aries; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Sam’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Mercury, Venus, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon sesquiquadrate Venus 0.6°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.0°
  • Moon semi-square Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.5°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°

Sam’s houses

Sam’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AriesMars in Leo, house 5Mercuryself, body, how you arrive
2TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 3Sunmoney, possessions, self-worth
3GeminiMercury in Aries, house 1Venusmind, siblings, the local world
4CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 8emptyhome, family, roots
5LeoSun in Taurus, house 2Marscreativity, romance, play
6VirgoMercury in Aries, house 1Jupiter, Saturnwork, habits, health
7LibraVenus in Gemini, house 3Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 7Moon, Uranusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 6Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10CapricornSaturn in Virgo, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 8emptyfriends, community, the future
12PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 9emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Sam’s cards

Computed from April 30, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

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 Q5804278 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Sam Heughan’s chart

How old is Sam Heughan?
Sam Heughan is 46 years old, born April 30, 1980 in Balmaclellan, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Sam Heughan?
Sam Heughan is a Taurus: born April 30, 1980, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Sam Heughan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1980 birth.
What time was Sam Heughan born?
05:25 local time in Balmaclellan, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Sam Heughan's rising sign?
Aries rising, calculated from the documented 05:25 birth time in Balmaclellan, United Kingdom (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Sam Heughan's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Sam Heughan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 13°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sam Heughan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sam Heughan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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