Sam Neill
Sam Neill (born September 14, 1947, Omagh, United Kingdom; died 2026), was a New Zealand actor. Neill is best remembered for Jurassic World Dominion, The Magic Pudding and Jurassic Park. Neill's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Sam Neill’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam Neill’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 169th among boys and 4,286th among girls in 1947, the year of this birth, with 1,416 American boys and 8 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
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
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
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 1947, 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
Leo XIV (1955) and Nas (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- Ireland and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Sam, according to the stars
Core essence
Sam notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Sam is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Sam is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Sam needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Sam creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Sam is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Sam is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Sam does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Neill
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Omagh 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 Omagh that night
Computed for 54.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Omagh at 9 p.m. that evening: Grumium of Draco, within 10.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 54.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Omagh at all: they sit past the −35.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Omagh, United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Alexandra
Wikidata records Alexandra as Sam Neill's home, against Omagh as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Sydney, New South Wales in 2026.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sam Neill: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sam's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Sam Neill's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Sam Neill was born on September 14, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Sam Neill's birth date, September 14, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Neill's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Sam Neill combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° 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
stableSunsextileMars0.5° to 0.9° orb
Sam’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb
Sam’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.5° to 2.4° orb
Sam’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 6.3° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.8° to 5.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.3° to 5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 6°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 8°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer or Gemini during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 25°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.6°
- Eros square Sun 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 2.0°
More people like Sam
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- Dan O'Bannon1946
- Ben Burtt1948
- Elfriede Jelinek1946
- Ian McEwan1948
- Sally Field1946
Born in United Kingdom
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- Hayley MillsBritish actress (born 1946)
- Paul NurseNobel prize winning British biochemist
- Tim CurryBritish actor
- Ozzy OsbourneEnglish musician and television personality
- James KelmanScottish writer
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- Abby Lee MillerAmerican dance instructor and choreographer
- Zandra RhodesBritish fashion designer
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Born in Pig years
- Alvin KamaraAmerican football player
- Braxton BerriosAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Kaden EllissAmerican football player
Also born on September 14
- Leo XIV1955
- Nas1973
- Han2000
- Ron DeSantis1978
- Terry Dubrow1958
- Logan Henderson1989
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Josephine JohnsonAmerican novelist, nature writer, poet
- Ian JohnsonAmerican journalist
- C. L. SulzbergerAmerican journalist and non-fiction writer
Other Virgo Pig charts
- Charles WrightAmerican writer; University of Virginia professor (born 1935)
- Jeff MacNellyAmerican editorial cartoonist
- Hank WilliamsAmerican singer-songwriter
- Mary OliverAmerican poet
Other Radiant Storytellers
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- Michael Clarke DuncanAmerican actor
- Beth ChapmanAmerican reality television star
- Emily DeschanelAmerican actress, television producer, and film producer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Luke RhodesAmerican football long snapper
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- D.J. MontgomeryAmerican football player (born 1996)
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Sam’s cards
Computed from September 14, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q214309 (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 New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Neill at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Neill.
Quick answers about Sam Neill’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sam Neill?
- Sam Neill was a Virgo: born September 14, 1947, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Sam Neill's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1947 birth.
- What was Sam Neill's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sam Neill's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sam Neill's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sam Neill's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
