Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. (born Samuel George Davis; December 8, 1925, New York City, United States; died 1990), was an American entertainer. Davis's honours include Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors.
Sammy Davis Jr.’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Sammy Davis Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Sammy in the U.S.?
#1864
US rank in 2025
~45,140
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sammy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sammy, according to the stars
Core essence
Sammy is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Sammy is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Sammy is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Sammy needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Sammy wants to be loved
Sammy wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Sammy be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Sammy creates
How Sammy makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Sammy creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Sammy is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sammy is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sammy leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sammy 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 Sammy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Sammy Davis Jr.'s Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Sammy Davis Jr. was born on December 8, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Sammy Davis Jr.'s birth date, December 8, 1925, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Sammy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sammy Davis Jr.'s date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Sammy Davis Jr. combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Sammy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sammy Davis Jr., so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Virgo 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.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
Sammy’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb
Sammy’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.2° to 2.3° orb
Sammy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.0° to 2.2° orb
Sammy’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrinePluto2.3° to 3.0° orb
Sammy’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 3.8° orb
Sammy’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
Sammy’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
Sammy’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineUranus4.4° to 5.1° orb
Sammy’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
Sammy’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
Sammy’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Sammy’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Sammy may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 25°12′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Sammy is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosScorpio 1°03′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Sammy is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 22°24′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Sammy is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Sammy is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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 square Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros square Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.0°
- Ceres trine Mercury 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°).
Sammy’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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Sammy is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Sammy’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.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sammy Davis Jr., so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sammy’s cards
Every card is computed from December 8, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sammy Davis Jr., 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
Sammy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q297816, 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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sammy Davis Jr. 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 Sammy Davis Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sammy Davis Jr.?
- Sammy Davis Jr. was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1925 birth.
- What time was Sammy Davis Jr. 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.
- How tall was Sammy Davis Jr.?
- Sammy Davis Jr. was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 8, 1925 birth date.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 8, 1925 birth date.
- Where was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
