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Sam Smith

Sam Smith (born Samuel Frederick Smith; May 19, 1992, London, United Kingdom), aged 34, is a British singer-songwriter. Best-known releases include In the Lonely Hour, The Thrill of It All and Love Goes. Smith's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Sam Smith’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Sam Smith’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood 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

The SSA recorded 575 American boys named Sam in 1992: 401st for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sam’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Samuel Frederick Smith, not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). 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 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

The record

What sets Sam apart

The Out100 came in 2014, when Sam Smith was 22.

Sam Smith was taught at Ed W. Clark High School and St Mary's Catholic School.

Sam Smith was 15 when the work began in 2007.

Malcolm X (1925) and Grace Jones (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Ed W. Clark High School and St Mary's Catholic School
Instruments
voice
Awards
Grammy Award for Record of the Year (2015), Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2015) and Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (2015)
Nominated for
MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video and MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
Working from
2007
Wikipedia editions
67

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 slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Sam is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Sam creates

How Sam makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Sam creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Sam gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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

PracticalVisionary
Sam

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sam

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Sam’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 87.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 29.9° 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 London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Phecda stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.

From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.

Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon down and 90% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born as
Samuel Frederick Smith
Known as
Sam Smith
Born in
London, United Kingdom
Lives in
Hampstead

Wikidata records Hampstead as Sam Smith's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sam Smith: 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

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet

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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Sam Smith in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Sam Smith's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 19, 1992, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Sam Smith was born on May 19, 1992, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Sam Smith's birth date, May 19, 1992, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Sam’s chart

Sam’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.5° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.9° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.5° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.6° orbSun in Taurus · 28°43′☉28°Moon in Capricorn · 1°26′☽1°Mercury in Taurus · 14°50′☿14°Venus in Taurus · 21°54′♀21°Mars in Aries · 10°21′♂10°Jupiter in Virgo · 5°09′♃5°Saturn in Aquarius · 18°25′♄18°Uranus in Capricorn · 17°42′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Capricorn · 18°44′ · retrograde♆℞18°Pluto in Scorpio · 21°22′ · retrograde♇℞21°

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

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Sam’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune1.0° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.9° to 3.8° orb

    Sam’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune2.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.6° to 7.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth7 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 4°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 9°40′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 17°06′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 14°03′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°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 Uranus 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.5°
  • Eros trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 3.0°

Sam’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Sam’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°

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Sam’s cards

Computed from May 19, 1992. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15123969 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sam Smith.

Quick answers about Sam Smith’s chart

How old is Sam Smith?
Sam Smith is 34 years old, born May 19, 1992 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Sam Smith?
Sam Smith is a Taurus: born May 19, 1992, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Sam Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 19, 1992 birth.
What is Sam Smith's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Sam Smith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sam Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sam Smith's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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