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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Sam
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
Sam ranked 267th among boys and 3,238th among girls in 1965, the year of this birth, with 774 American boys and 16 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
2
Soul Urge · closeness
1
Personality · self-directed
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
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
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 1965, 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 Mendes took the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director in 1999, at 34.
Training came by way of Magdalen College School and Peterhouse.
The working life starts in 1993, at 28.
On the family side, Sam Mendes was born to Valerie Mendes, married Alison Balsom and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Sam Mendes under English Jews, Artists awarded knighthoods and Action film directors.
Georges Charpak (1924) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Magdalen College School, Peterhouse and University of Cambridge
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction (2020), Academy Award for Best Director (2000) and Knight Bachelor (2020)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film and European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film
- Working from
- 1993
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
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. 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 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.
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 Mendes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Reading 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 Reading that night
Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Reading at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 8.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Reading on any night.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 25% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 1° down.
How unusual Sam's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.0° to 4.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.9° to 7.1° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 24°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°38′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
Sam’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Sam’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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
Computed from August 1, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223233 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Sam Mendes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam Mendes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
