Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson (born Samantha Louise Taylor-Wood; March 4, 1967, Croydon, United Kingdom), aged 59, is a British film director. Notable films include Fifty Shades of Grey, Nowhere Boy and Back to Black. Taylor-Johnson's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Sam
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 607 American boys and 11 girls named Sam in 1967: 299th among boys and 4,247th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sam’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Samantha Louise Taylor-Wood, not the name they published under.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). 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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The record
What sets Sam apart
Miriam Makeba (1932) and Khaled Hosseini (1965) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Sam is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Sam wants to be loved
Sam wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Sam creates
How Sam makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Sam creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Sam is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Sam is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sam runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Taylor-Johnson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Croydon 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 Croydon that night
Computed for 51.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Croydon was Muscida, in Ursa Major, 79.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 35% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Samantha Louise Taylor-Wood
- Known as
- Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Born in
- Croydon, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sam Taylor-Johnson: 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
68 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 2 unaspected planets · Five planets 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.
Score your own chart →Sam Taylor-Johnson at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Sam Taylor-Johnson's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 4, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Sam Taylor-Johnson was born on March 4, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Sam Taylor-Johnson's birth date, March 4, 1967, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Sam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sam Taylor-Johnson's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- Sam Taylor-Johnson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Sam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.4° orb
Sam’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
Sam’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Sam’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto5.8° to 6.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.2° to 7.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus7.2° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Sam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 24°57′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°19′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°09′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.2°
Sam’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Sam’s chart
Kite · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
Sam’s family here
One relative of Sam Taylor-Johnson also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Sam
Other photographers
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- Walton Goggins1971
- Jordan Matter1966
- Penélope Cruz1974
- Carolyn Cole1961
- Hedi Slimane1968
Born in United Kingdom
- Shirley HendersonBritish actress
- Jason StathamEnglish actor
- Kiefer SutherlandBritish-Canadian actor (born 1966)
- Brian CoxEnglish physicist and musician
- Helena Bonham CarterBritish actress
- Jhumpa LahiriAmerican author of Indian origin (born 1967)
More charts like Sam’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Jeremy ChinnAmerican football player
- Kenneth GainwellAmerican football running back
- SirVocea DennisAmerican football player
Born in Goat years
- Fernando Henrique CardosoPresident of Brazil from 1995 to 2003
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer
- Donatella VersaceItalian fashion designer
Also born on March 4
- Miriam Makeba1932
- Khaled Hosseini1965
- Angela White1985
- Brooklyn Beckham1999
- K. Michelle1985
- Josh Bowman1988
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Melissa GilbertAmerican actress
- Judy GreerAmerican actress
- Andrew FirestoneAmerican TV reality show personality
Other Pisces Goat charts
- Bruce WillisAmerican actor
- W. H. AudenBritish-American poet
- Rupert MurdochAmerican businessman
- Riyad MahrezAlgerian-French footballer
Other Radiant Healers
- Winona RyderAmerican actress
- Elijah WoodAmerican actor
- Kelly ClarksonAmerican singer-songwriter
- Brendan FraserCanadian-American actor
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Vincent O'SullivanNew Zealand writer
- Gwyn ThomasWelsh poet
- James StillAmerican poet from Alabama
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Sam’s cards
Computed from March 4, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1273122 (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 Nick Step, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sam Taylor-Johnson at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Taylor-Johnson.
Quick answers about Sam Taylor-Johnson’s chart
- How old is Sam Taylor-Johnson?
- Sam Taylor-Johnson is 59 years old, born March 4, 1967 in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Sam Taylor-Johnson?
- Sam Taylor-Johnson is a Pisces: born March 4, 1967, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Sam Taylor-Johnson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 4, 1967 birth.
- What is Sam Taylor-Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sam Taylor-Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sam Taylor-Johnson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sam Taylor-Johnson's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
