Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (born August 1, 1965, Reading, United Kingdom), aged 61, is a British stage and film director (born 1965). Mendes's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, BAFTA Award for Best Direction and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Sam Mendes’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.How compatible are you with Sam Mendes?
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Sam Mendes’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Sam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sam, according to the stars
Core essence
Sam is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sam is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Sam wants to be loved
Sam wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Sam and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Sam fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Sam's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sam sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Sam Mendes's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Sam Mendes was born on August 1, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Sam Mendes's birth date, August 1, 1965, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Mendes' date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sam Mendes combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sam Mendes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Sam’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Sam’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.8° orb
Sam’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
Sam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
Sam’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.0° to 4.4° orb
Sam’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.1° to 5.3° orb
Sam’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranussextileNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
Sam’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.9° to 7.1° orb
Sam’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° to 6.4° orb
Sam’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.6° to 18.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Sam absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Sam looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 24°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Sam is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°38′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Sam at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Sam at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Sam’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Sam is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Sam’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Virgo · Mercury, Venus, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sam Mendes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Sam’s family here
One relative of Sam Mendes also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Sam’s cards
Every card is computed from August 1, 1965, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sam Mendes, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223233, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Mendes at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sam Mendes.
Quick answers about Sam Mendes’s chart
- How old is Sam Mendes?
- Sam Mendes is 61 years old, born August 1, 1965 in Reading, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Sam Mendes?
- Sam Mendes is a Leo: born August 1, 1965, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
- What is Sam Mendes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1965 birth.
- What time was Sam Mendes born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Sam Mendes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 1, 1965 birth date.
- What is Sam Mendes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 1, 1965 birth date.
- Where is Sam Mendes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam Mendes's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
