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Samara Joy

Samara Joy (born November 11, 1999, The Bronx, United States), aged 26, is an American jazz singer. Joy's honours include Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album and Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Samara Joy’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Samara Joy’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Samara in the U.S.?

#320

US rank in 2025

~22,769

Americans share it since 1949

2018

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1999, Samara came 942nd, carried by 223 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Samara’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

Samara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 6

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1999, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Samara apart

Samara Joy took the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2023, at 24.

State University of New York at Purchase and Fordham High School for the Arts shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2019, at 20.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Samara Joy: Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition winners, Whirlwind Recordings artists and Musicians from the Bronx.

The same date carries Thomas Booker. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
State University of New York at Purchase and Fordham High School for the Arts
Instruments
voice
Awards
Grammy Award for Best New Artist (2023) and Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album (2023)
Nominated for
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
Working from
2019
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
23

What the chart says

Samara, according to the stars

Core essence

Samara does not do surface. The core of Samara 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 Samara is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Samara wants to be loved

Samara wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Samara gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Samara creates

How Samara 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. Samara 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: Samara 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Samara 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Samara does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Samara's birth date. Working below.

Where Samara sits

Six lines

Samara’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Samara

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Samara

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

PrivateExpressive
Samara

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Samara

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

PracticalVisionary
Samara

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Samara

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Samara Joy

Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night

Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.2° above the horizon in Andromeda.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon down and 13% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Samara's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Uranus

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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Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Samara Joy's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 11, 1999, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Samara Joy was born on November 11, 1999, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Samara Joy's birth date, November 11, 1999, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Samara’s chart

Samara’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.3° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun in Scorpio · 18°51′☉18°Moon in Sagittarius · 27°33′☽27°Mercury in Scorpio · 28°20′ · retrograde☿℞28°Venus in Libra · 2°47′♀2°Mars in Capricorn · 18°56′♂18°Jupiter in Aries · 27°29′ · retrograde♃℞27°Saturn in Taurus · 13°17′ · retrograde♄℞13°Uranus in Aquarius · 13°01′♅13°Neptune in Aquarius · 1°49′♆1°Pluto in Sagittarius · 9°32′♇9°

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

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileMars0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Samara’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.0° orb

    Samara’s feelings flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Samara’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto3.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn5.0° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.2° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 3.4° to 5.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What these five are read as, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 5°24′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 18°34′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 15°22′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 27°44′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.3°
  • Ceres trine Mars 0.4°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 2.6°

Samara’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Samara’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn 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.

  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.8°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°

Born the same day as Samara

Thomas Booker was born on November 11, 1999 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.8°N, the sky above The Bronx stops at −49.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Samara’s cards

Computed from November 11, 1999. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Samara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108311952 (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 Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Samara Joy at Wikipedia, samarajoy.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Samara Joy.

Quick answers about Samara Joy’s chart

How old is Samara Joy?
Samara Joy is 26 years old, born November 11, 1999 in The Bronx, United States.
What zodiac sign is Samara Joy?
Samara Joy is a Scorpio: born November 11, 1999, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Samara Joy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 11, 1999 birth.
What is Samara Joy's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Samara Joy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Samara Joy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Samara Joy's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 3 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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