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Sam Howell

Sam Howell (born September 16, 2000, Waynesville, United States), aged 26, is an American football player (born 2000). Howell has played for North Carolina Tar Heels football.

Sam Howell’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Sam Howell’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, 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

The SSA recorded 517 American boys and 6 girls named Sam in 2000: 460th among boys and 14,664th 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

3

Soul Urge · being heard

6

Personality · caring, responsible

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

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

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 2000, 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 Howell to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sun Valley High School.

Wikipedia files Sam Howell under Christians from North Carolina, People from Waynesville, North Carolina and Players of American football from Union County, North Carolina.

Lee Kuan Yew (1923) and Amy Poehler (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sun Valley High School
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Sam, according to the stars

Core essence

Sam notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Sam is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Sam wants to be loved

Sam wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Sam gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Sam creates

How Sam makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Sam creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Sam is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Sam is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Sam Howell

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waynesville 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 Waynesville that night

Computed for 35.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Waynesville at 9 p.m. that evening: Sulafat of Lyra, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.

Waynesville sits at 35.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −54.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Waynesville on any night.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 89% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.

How unusual Sam's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Water planets

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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Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Sam Howell's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 16, 2000, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Sam Howell was born on September 16, 2000, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Sam Howell's birth date, September 16, 2000, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Sam’s chart

Sam’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.2° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.8° orbSun in Virgo · 24°05′☉24°Moon in Aries · 28°17′☽28°Mercury in Libra · 13°41′☿13°Venus in Libra · 20°15′♀20°Mars in Leo · 29°47′♂29°Jupiter in Gemini · 10°57′♃10°Saturn in Gemini · 0°58′ · retrograde♄℞0°Uranus in Aquarius · 17°31′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Aquarius · 4°01′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Sagittarius · 10°21′♇10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.6° orb

    Sam’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn0.9° to 1.5° orb

    Sam’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.0° to 3.5° orb

    Sam’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.1° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto2.6° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.4° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 12°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 1°34′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 15°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 9°39′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 22°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Pluto 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.0°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres square Neptune 2.5°

Sam’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Sam’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree 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 biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°

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Sam’s cards

Computed from September 16, 2000. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q67702653 (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 All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sam Howell at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sam Howell.

Quick answers about Sam Howell’s chart

How old is Sam Howell?
Sam Howell is 26 years old, born September 16, 2000 in Waynesville, United States.
What zodiac sign is Sam Howell?
Sam Howell is a Virgo: born September 16, 2000, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Sam Howell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 2000 birth.
How tall is Sam Howell?
Sam Howell is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Sam Howell's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Sam Howell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sam Howell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sam Howell's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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