Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber (born March 9, 1910, West Chester, United States; died 1981), was an American composer. Barber is best remembered for Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Hermit Songs and Cello Concerto. Barber's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
Samuel Barber’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Samuel Barber’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Samuel in the U.S.?
#18
US rank in 2025
~823,085
Americans share it since 1880
2001
its peak year
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Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Samuel, according to the stars
Core essence
Samuel feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Samuel 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 Samuel wants to be loved
Samuel 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 Samuel be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Samuel creates
How Samuel makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Samuel creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Samuel is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Samuel 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Samuel is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Samuel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Samuel sits
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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 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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Samuel Barber at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Samuel Barber's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 9, 1910, 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.
Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Samuel Barber was born on March 9, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Samuel Barber's birth date, March 9, 1910, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Samuel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Samuel Barber's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Samuel Barber combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Samuel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Samuel Barber, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableMercurysquareMars0.1° to 1.0° orb
Samuel’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Samuel’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.1° to 2.6° orb
Samuel’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.6° orb
Samuel’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineUranus2.8° to 3.3° orb
Samuel’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 3.4° orb
Samuel’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Samuel’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
Samuel’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
Samuel’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.5° orb
Samuel’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Samuel’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 29°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Samuel making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresPisces 8°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Samuel is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°01′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Samuel attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 6°35′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Samuel is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Samuel that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.7°
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°).
Samuel’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. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Samuel 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 Samuel’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Samuel Barber, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Samuel’s cards
Every card is computed from March 9, 1910, 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 Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Samuel Barber, 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
Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216870, 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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Samuel Barber 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 Samuel Barber’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Samuel Barber?
- Samuel Barber was a Pisces: born March 9, 1910, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was Samuel Barber's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 9, 1910 birth.
- What time was Samuel Barber 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 was Samuel Barber's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 9, 1910 birth date.
- What was Samuel Barber's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 9, 1910 birth date.
- Where was Samuel Barber's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Samuel Barber's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
