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Snail Mail

Snail Mail (born June 16, 1999, Ellicott City, United States), aged 27, is a Solo musical project of Lindsey Jordan. Mail is best known for I Saw the TV Glow, Valentine and Lush.

Snail Mail’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Snail Mail’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

What Snail’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

2

Soul Urge · closeness

7

Personality · composed, private

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

Snail’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · 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 1999, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Snail apart

What keeps Snail Mail in print: Lush, Valentine and I Saw the TV Glow.

The classrooms behind this chart: Mount Hebron High School.

The working life starts in 2015, at 16.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Snail Mail: Musical groups established in 2015, People from Ellicott City, Maryland and Matador Records artists.

The same date carries Justin Jefferson and Trevon Moehrig. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
Lush, Valentine and I Saw the TV Glow
Educated at
Mount Hebron High School
Working from
2015
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
17

What the chart says

Snail, according to the stars

Core essence

Snail is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Snail needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Snail wants to be loved

Snail wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Snail openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Snail creates

How Snail makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Snail creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Snail is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Snail 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Snail fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Snail's birth date. Working below.

Where Snail sits

Six lines

Snail’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Snail

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Snail

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Snail

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Snail

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Snail

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Snail

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Snail Mail

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ellicott City 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 Ellicott City that night

Computed for 39.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ellicott City was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.9° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ellicott City at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 14% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.

How unusual Snail's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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.

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Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Snail Mail's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1999, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Snail Mail was born on June 16, 1999, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Snail Mail's birth date, June 16, 1999, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Snail’s chart

Snail’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Mars · Trine, 0.3° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.7° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.6° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.6° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.9° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.7° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 4° orbSun in Gemini · 25°04′☉25°Moon in Leo · 4°41′☽4°Mercury in Cancer · 16°52′☿16°Venus in Leo · 10°20′♀10°Mars in Libra · 25°25′♂25°Jupiter in Aries · 28°00′♃28°Saturn in Taurus · 12°48′♄12°Uranus in Aquarius · 16°32′ · retrograde♅℞16°Neptune in Aquarius · 3°57′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Sagittarius · 8°41′ · retrograde♇℞8°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

  • stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Snail’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.8° orb

    Snail’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenustrinePluto1.2° to 2.1° orb

    Snail’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus5.7° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.8° to 6.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.9° to 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Snail’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What these five are read as, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 28°59′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 14°20′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 2°57′ (moves 0.82° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 1°20′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Neptune 1.0°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 1.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°

Snail’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Snail’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.3°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 1.7°

Born the same day as Snail

2 other people here were born on June 16, 1999, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Ellicott City sits at 39.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Snail’s cards

Computed from June 16, 1999. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Snail’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q48806750 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Snail Mail at Wikipedia, snailmail.band, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Snail Mail.

Quick answers about Snail Mail’s chart

How old is Snail Mail?
Snail Mail is 27 years old, born June 16, 1999 in Ellicott City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Snail Mail?
Snail Mail is a Gemini: born June 16, 1999, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Snail Mail's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1999 birth.
What is Snail Mail's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Snail Mail's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Snail Mail's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Snail Mail's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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