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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, 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 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.
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Sam Merrill in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Sam Merrill, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Aries or Taurus 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.
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
Sam’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Sam’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° orb
Sam’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.3° to 3.9° orb
Sam’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
Sam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareUranus4.8° to 5.5° orb
Sam’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
Sam’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionPluto6.3° to 7.3° orb
Sam’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineJupiter6.3° to 6.9° orb
Sam’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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 ℞Libra 8°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Sam is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 11°56′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Sam is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 5°28′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Sam loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaAries 7°57′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Sam feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Sam guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Sam is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 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 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.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sam Merrill, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Sam’s cards
Every card is computed from May 15, 1996, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Sam Merrill, 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 Q62719191, 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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Merrill at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- 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.
- What time was Sam Merrill 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.
- 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 from the May 15, 1996 birth date.
- What is Sam Merrill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 15, 1996 birth date.
- 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.
