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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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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
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
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sam sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Sam Taylor-Johnson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Sam’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.3° orb
Sam’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
Sam’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.1° to 5.3° orb
Sam’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
Sam’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionPluto5.8° to 6.8° orb
Sam’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.2° to 7.2° orb
Sam’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus7.2° to 7.4° orb
Sam’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
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.
⚳ CeresGemini 24°57′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Sam feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 19°19′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Sam is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°09′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Sam is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Sam carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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 and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Sam is read as tuned to what is not said.
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sam Taylor-Johnson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Sam’s family here
One relative of Sam Taylor-Johnson also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Sam’s cards
Every card is computed from March 4, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Sam Taylor-Johnson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Sam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1273122, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
- 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 time was Sam Taylor-Johnson born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Sam Taylor-Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the March 4, 1967 birth date.
- What is Sam Taylor-Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 4, 1967 birth date.
- 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.
