Sam LaPorta
Sam LaPorta (born January 12, 2001, Highland, United States), aged 25, is an American football player (born 2001). LaPorta has played for Detroit Lions.
Sam LaPorta’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam LaPorta’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
The SSA recorded 554 American boys and 10 girls named Sam in 2001: 438th among boys and 9,957th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · 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
The schooling ran through Highland High School and University of Iowa.
Wikipedia files Sam LaPorta under People from Highland, Illinois, Sportspeople from Madison County, Illinois and Players of American football from Illinois.
Haruki Murakami (1949) and Jeff Bezos (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Highland High School and University of Iowa
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
What the chart says
Sam, according to the stars
Core essence
Sam is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Sam is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Sam wants to be loved
Sam wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Sam, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Sam creates
How Sam makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Sam creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sam runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 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 night
Dedicate a star to Sam LaPorta
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Highland 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 Highland that night
Computed for 38.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Highland was Menkib, in Perseus, 82.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Highland sits at 38.7°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 Highland at all: they sit past the −51.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 85% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Sam's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Sam LaPorta's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 12, 2001, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Sam LaPorta was born on January 12, 2001, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Sam LaPorta's birth date, January 12, 2001, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam LaPorta's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sam LaPorta combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Leo or Virgo 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
stableSuntrineSaturn1.1° to 2.1° orb
Sam’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.3° to 3.0° orb
Sam’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 2.9° orb
Sam’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenustrineMars1.9° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.2° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 1.2° to 15.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 23°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°13′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 8°52′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 24°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Eros trine Mars 2.9°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
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.
- Sun quintile Mars 1.1°
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More charts like Sam’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Zayn MalikEnglish singer
- Eddie RedmayneEnglish actor
- AaliyahAmerican R&B singer
Born in Dragon years
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Keanu ReevesCanadian actor and musician
- RonaldoBrazilian association football player
Also born on January 12
- Haruki Murakami1949
- Jeff Bezos1964
- Naya Rivera1987
- Howard Stern1954
- Issa Rae1985
- Raf Simons1968
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Dave AnnableAmerican actor
- Paul AndersonEnglish actor (1978-)
- Danny AmendolaAmerican football player (born 1985)
Other Capricorn Dragon charts
- Joe ManganielloAmerican actor
- Enzo FernándezArgentine footballer (born 2001)
- Vinnie JonesBritish footballer and actor
- Graham ChapmanEnglish actor, comedian and writer
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Brooks AtkinsonAmerican critic
- Carl Emil SchorskeAmerican historian
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr.American historian
- George DangerfieldAwardee of the Pulitzer Prize, 1953
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Sergio AgüeroArgentine association football player
- PinkAmerican singer, songwriter, and actress
- Boris NemtsovRussian scientist, statesman and liberal politician
From the journal: Dragon babies: the real demographics behind the belief · Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year
Sam’s cards
Computed from January 12, 2001. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108830207 (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 Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam LaPorta 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 LaPorta.
Quick answers about Sam LaPorta’s chart
- How old is Sam LaPorta?
- Sam LaPorta is 25 years old, born January 12, 2001 in Highland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sam LaPorta?
- Sam LaPorta is a Capricorn: born January 12, 2001, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Sam LaPorta's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 12, 2001 birth.
- How tall is Sam LaPorta?
- Sam LaPorta is 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Sam LaPorta's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam LaPorta's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sam LaPorta's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam LaPorta's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
