Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson (born Samuel Leroy Jackson; December 21, 1948, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 77, is an American actor. Jackson is best known for Pulp Fiction, Star Wars and Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jackson's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Samuel L. Jackson’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius or Capricorn (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Samuel
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 70th among boys and 2,683rd among girls in 1948, the year of this birth, with 5,002 American boys and 15 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Samuel’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Samuel Leroy Jackson, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Gold
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 1948, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Samuel apart
The shelf Samuel L. Jackson is read from: Pulp Fiction, Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars.
Training came by way of Morehouse College.
The working life starts in 1972, at 24.
On the family side, Samuel L. Jackson was married LaTanya Richardson.
Wikipedia's editors put Samuel L. Jackson under Morehouse Maroon Tigers cheerleaders, American people of Gabonese descent and Male actors from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Emmanuel Macron (1977) and Jane Fonda (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Pulp Fiction, Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars
- Educated at
- Morehouse College
- Awards
- Film Independent Spirit Awards (1995), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1994) and Academy Honorary Award (2022)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1972
- Citizenship
- United States and Gabon
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 98
What the chart says
Samuel, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Samuel 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 Samuel needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Samuel wants to be loved
Samuel wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Samuel and watch them fall for you again.
How Samuel creates
How Samuel makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Samuel creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Samuel is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Samuel 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 Samuel leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Samuel 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 Samuel's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 63% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Samuel Leroy Jackson
- Known as
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Samuel L. Jackson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Samuel's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
No Water planets · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Sagittarius or Capricorn Sun
Samuel L. Jackson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Samuel L. Jackson was born on December 21, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Samuel L. Jackson's birth date, December 21, 1948, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Samuel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Samuel L. Jackson's date-only chart is Sun opposition Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Water.
Samuel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Virgo 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.6° to 2.2° orb
Samuel’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunoppositionUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb
Samuel’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Samuel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.7° to 1.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus5.5° to 7.1° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.9° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Samuel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 2°55′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 24°43′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 26°33′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 15°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.0°
Samuel’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Samuel’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Samuel’s cards
Computed from December 21, 1948. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q172678 (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 Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Samuel L. Jackson.
Quick answers about Samuel L. Jackson’s chart
- How old is Samuel L. Jackson?
- Samuel L. Jackson is 77 years old, born December 21, 1948 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Samuel L. Jackson?
- Samuel L. Jackson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Samuel L. Jackson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 21, 1948 birth.
- What is Samuel L. Jackson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Samuel L. Jackson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Samuel L. Jackson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Samuel L. Jackson's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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