What zodiac sign was Sam Ragan?

Sam Ragan was a Capricorn: born December 31, 1915, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.

What was Sam Ragan's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1915 birth.

What was Sam Ragan's Life Path number?

Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.

What was Sam Ragan's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Sam Ragan's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Sam Ragan's dominant planet?

Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Sam Ragan

Sam Ragan (born December 31, 1915, Granville County, United States; died 1996), was an American poet. Ragan served as North Carolina Poet Laureate. Ragan's honours include North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.

Sam Ragan’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Sam

Sam Ragan’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 1915, 2,339 American boys and 27 girls were registered Sam — 68th among boys and 1,395th 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.

Expression · sensing what is coming

Soul Urge · being heard

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on S (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

5 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Ivory · Forest

The record

What sets Sam apart

Anthony Hopkins (1937) and Baron Waqa (1959) 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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Sam is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Sam wants to be loved

Sam wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Sam be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sam is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sam fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network

Sam

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Sam

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Sam

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Sam

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary

Sam

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Sam

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Sam Ragan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Granville County on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Sam’s birth-night reference starAtikblue · PerseusAtik, in Perseus. A blue star, 84.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Atik →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 67.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Granville County that night

Computed for 36.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Granville County was Atik, in Perseus, 84.6° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Granville County sits at 36.3°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 −53.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 23% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

How unusual Sam's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 planet at a critical degree · Mars retrograde

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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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Sam Ragan's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 31, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Sam Ragan was born on December 31, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Sam Ragan's birth date, December 31, 1915, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Sam’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Sam Ragan's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
Sam Ragan combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.

Sam’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

stableMarssextilePluto2.3° orb
Sam’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.4° to 4.8° orb
Sam’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.5° to 4.8° orb
Sam’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.9° to 5.6° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto6.3° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth2 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water4 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal4 of 10
Fixed5 of 10
Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironPisces 18°34′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 15°23′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°58′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 19°10′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 25°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Chiron sextile Mercury 0.5°
Eros conjunction Mercury 1.1°
Hygiea square Mercury 1.1°
Ceres square Uranus 1.7°
Ceres sextile Saturn 2.0°
Ceres trine Mercury 2.7°

Sam’s dominant planets

1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus

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.

Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.3°
Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
Sun quintile Jupiter 1.2°
Mars semi-square Saturn 1.5°

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All about Capricorn →

Born in Rabbit years

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Josh Palmercanadian-born American football wide receiver
Michael Carter IIAmerican football safety

Year of the Rabbit →

Also born on December 31

Fellow Yang Fire day masters

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Reinhold WürthGerman businessman
Vladimir PotaninRussian billionaire

What a Day Master is →

Other Capricorn Rabbit charts

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Other Radiant Pioneers

Lev LandauSoviet theoretical physicist
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAmerican politician
Jennifer ConnellyAmerican actress
Ava GardnerAmerican actress

The Radiant Pioneer explained →

Famous people with Life Path 5

Hubert KoundéFrench Benin actor and film director
Anthony PerkinsAmerican actor
Janet LeighAmerican actress

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Sam’s cards

Computed from December 31, 1915. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

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 Q7408040 (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.

The same Sam Ragan 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 Ragan.

Quick answers about Sam Ragan’s chart

What zodiac sign was Sam Ragan?: Sam Ragan was a Capricorn: born December 31, 1915, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Sam Ragan's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1915 birth.
What was Sam Ragan's Life Path number?: Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Sam Ragan's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Sam Ragan's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Sam Ragan's dominant planet?: Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.