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Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968, Daly City, United States, 04:07), aged 57, is an American actor. Rockwell is best known for The Bad Guys. Rockwell's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Sam Rockwell’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Sam Rockwell’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, 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

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

22 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Sam apart

Vivien Leigh (1913) and Art Garfunkel (1941) 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 does not do surface. The core of Sam is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Sam is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Sam is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Sam needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Sam wants to be loved

Sam wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Sam and watch them fall for you again.

How Sam creates

How Sam makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Sam creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Sam is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Sam is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Sam channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Sam's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Sam sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Sam

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sam

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Sam

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sam

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Sam

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sam

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

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Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Sam Rockwell's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 22

Big blueprint, real hands.

Sam Rockwell's birth date, November 5, 1968, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Sam’s chart

Sam’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.9° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.4° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.3° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 3.5° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Scorpio · 13°09′ · house 2☉13°Moon in Taurus · 16°41′ · house 8☽16°Mercury in Libra · 25°45′ · house 1☿25°Venus in Sagittarius · 18°37′ · house 3♀18°Mars in Virgo · 27°43′ · house 12♂27°Jupiter in Virgo · 28°11′ · house 12♃28°Saturn in Aries · 20°28′ · house 7 · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Libra · 2°13′ · house 1♅2°Neptune in Scorpio · 25°46′ · house 2♆25°Pluto in Virgo · 24°22′ · house 12♇24°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLib 11°28′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAri 11°28′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCnc 12°57′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCap 12°57′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLibra
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 0.5° orb

    Sam’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.4° orb

    Sam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenustrineSaturnapplying · 1.9° orb

    Sam’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • MarssextileNeptuneseparating · 1.9° orb

    Sam’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb

    Sam’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.3° orb

    Sam’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SunoppositionMoonseparating · 3.5° orb

    Sam’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.8° orb

    Sam’s growth and depths act as one.

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.0° orb

    Sam’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.5° orb

    Sam’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.3° orb

    Sam’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • VenussquarePlutoapplying · 5.8° orb

    Sam’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.8° orb

    Sam’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°23′ · House 6

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Sam absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 5°36′ · House 3

    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.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 0°49′ · House 4

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Sam is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 27°23′ · House 6

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Sam needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°42′ · House 9

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Sam that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Hygiea opposition Mars 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.2°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 1.7°
  • Eros square Jupiter 2.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.9°

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Moon, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 4 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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Moon quincunx Venus 1.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 2.0°

Sam’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 3Mercury, Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 12Sun, Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 12Venusmind, siblings, the local world
4CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 7emptyhome, family, roots
5AquariusUranus in Libra, house 1emptycreativity, romance, play
6PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7AriesMars in Virgo, house 12Saturnpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 3Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9GeminiMercury in Libra, house 1emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10CancerMoon in Taurus, house 8emptycareer, reputation, public life
11LeoSun in Scorpio, house 2emptyfriends, community, the future
12VirgoMercury in Libra, house 1Mars, Jupiter, Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Sam’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316446, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sam Rockwell at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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.

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Quick answers about Sam Rockwell’s chart

How old is Sam Rockwell?
Sam Rockwell is 57 years old, born November 5, 1968 in Daly City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Sam Rockwell?
Sam Rockwell is a Scorpio: born November 5, 1968, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
What is Sam Rockwell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1968 birth.
What time was Sam Rockwell born?
04:07 local time in Daly City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Sam Rockwell's rising sign?
Libra rising, calculated from the documented 04:07 birth time in Daly City, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Sam Rockwell's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the November 5, 1968 birth date.
What is Sam Rockwell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 5, 1968 birth time.
Where is Sam Rockwell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sam Rockwell's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Moon, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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