AsterNymAsterNym
Portrait of Samuel L. Jackson

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), and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

How compatible are you with Samuel L. Jackson?

Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Samuel. Under a minute.

Your AsterNym Match

?%Your score is waiting.

Two details and you have your number with Samuel. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.

Free · no account · stays on this device. Add a birth time later for the full chart.

Your result includes:

  • · Your compatibility percentage
  • · What attracts you to each other
  • · What you would bring to the match
  • · Where you might clash
  • · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons

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

US Social Security Administration public records

Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Samuel L. Jackson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Samuel’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 87.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 63.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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

Charming, and counting the exits.

Samuel L. Jackson was born on December 21, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Samuel L. Jackson's birth date, December 21, 1948, 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 Samuel’s chart

Samuel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Samuel L. Jackson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.4° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.9° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.2° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.7° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.1° orbSun in Sagittarius · 29°46′☉29°Moon in Virgo · 9°56′☽9°Mercury in Capricorn · 4°47′☿4°Venus in Sagittarius · 1°44′♀1°Mars in Capricorn · 19°02′♂19°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°59′♃7°Saturn in Virgo · 6°11′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Gemini · 28°29′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Libra · 14°59′♆14°Pluto in Leo · 16°18′ · retrograde♇℞16°

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.

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

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

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.

  • 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

    Samuel’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.9° orb

    Samuel’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune3.7° to 4.4° orb

    Samuel’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.8° to 5.1° orb

    Samuel’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.3° orb

    Samuel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus5.5° to 7.1° orb

    Samuel’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn5.9° to 6.9° orb

    Samuel’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • 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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 2°55′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Samuel building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 24°43′ (moves 0.02° 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. Samuel is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 26°33′ (moves 0.74° 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. Samuel is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 15°14′ (moves 0.11° 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 LilithPisces 17°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Samuel is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

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 conjunction Venus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.0°

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. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Samuel 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 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.

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.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Samuel L. Jackson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

More people like Samuel

Other television producers

Born in United States

More charts like Samuel’s

Born in Rat years

Year of the Rat →

Also born on December 21

Fellow Yang Metal day masters

What a Day Master is →

Famous people with Life Path 1

Life Path numbers explained →

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

Every card is computed from December 21, 1948, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

Tap to flip

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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

No birth time is on public record for Samuel L. Jackson, 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 Q172678, 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 Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Samuel L. Jackson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rat.
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 time was Samuel L. Jackson 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 is Samuel L. Jackson's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 21, 1948 birth date.
What is Samuel L. Jackson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 21, 1948 birth date.
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.

More charts to explore