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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Samuel
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
Samuel ranked 32nd in 1910, the year of this birth, with 1,129 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Samuel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Samuel apart
Yuri Gagarin (1934) and Oscar Isaac (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Samuel sits
Six lines
Samuel’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 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.
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 Samuel Barber
Three stars chosen from the real sky above West Chester 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 West Chester that night
Computed for 39.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at West Chester at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 10.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from West Chester on any night.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.
How unusual Samuel's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Saturn
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 →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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
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
stableMarstrineUranus2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 29°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 8°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°01′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 6°35′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.7°
Samuel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Samuel’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
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Samuel’s cards
Computed from March 9, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216870 (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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
- 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 was Samuel Barber's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Samuel Barber's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
