Sam Merrill
Sam Merrill (born May 15, 1996, Bountiful, United States), aged 30, is an American basketball player (born 1996). Merrill has played for Utah State Aggies men's basketball. Merrill's honours include Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
Sam Merrill’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam Merrill’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
In 1996, 527 American boys and 8 girls were registered Sam — 428th among boys and 10,341st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Sam apart
Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) 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.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sam creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Sam is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Sam is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Merrill
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bountiful 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 Bountiful that night
Computed for 40.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bountiful was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 81.2° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Bountiful sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
How unusual Sam's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde · 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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Sam Merrill's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Sam Merrill was born on May 15, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Sam Merrill's birth date, May 15, 1996, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Merrill's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sam Merrill combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Sam’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.3° to 1.9° orb
Sam’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Sam’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto6.3° to 7.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter6.3° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 8°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 11°56′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 5°28′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 7°57′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.5°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.0°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Sam’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.7°
More people like Sam
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- D'Angelo Russell1996
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- Pat Spencer1996
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Born in United States
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- Gardner MinshewAmerican football player (born 1996)
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More charts like Sam’s
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- Donatella VersaceItalian fashion designer
- Dennis RodmanAmerican basketball player
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Born in Rat years
- Jaylen BrownAmerican basketball player
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- Issa RaeAmerican actress, writer and producer
Also born on May 15
- Pierre Curie1859
- Haerin2006
- Huddy2002
- Role Model1997
- Zara Tindall1981
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler1981
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Malo GustoFrench footballer (born 2003)
- Ivor PandurCroatian association football player
- Marvin KellerSwiss association football player
Other Taurus Rat charts
- Nick AllegrettiAmerican football player
- Blake CashmanAmerican football linebacker
- Gardner MinshewAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Tyus JonesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Marshawn KneelandAmerican football player
- Xolo MaridueñaAmerican actor
- Evan MobleyAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Zhou GuanyuChinese racing driver
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Zona GaleAmerican author and playwright
- Daniel R. FitzpatrickAmerican cartoonist
- Marilynne RobinsonAmerican novelist and essayist (born 1943)
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Sam’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62719191 (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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Merrill at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sam Merrill.
Quick answers about Sam Merrill’s chart
- How old is Sam Merrill?
- Sam Merrill is 30 years old, born May 15, 1996 in Bountiful, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sam Merrill?
- Sam Merrill is a Taurus: born May 15, 1996, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Sam Merrill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1996 birth.
- How tall is Sam Merrill?
- Sam Merrill is 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Sam Merrill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam Merrill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sam Merrill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam Merrill's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
