Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke (born Thomas Edward Yorke; October 7, 1968, Wellingborough, United Kingdom), aged 58, is an English musician and singer for Radiohead. Best-known releases include The Eraser, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and ANIMA.
Thom Yorke’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Thom
Thom Yorke’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Thom in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~844
Americans share it since 1917
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 24 American boys named Thom in 1968: 1,644th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thom’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Thomas Edward Yorke, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thom’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Thom apart
The schooling ran through Abingdon School and University of Exeter.
Thom Yorke was 17 when the work began in 1985.
Thom Yorke was married Dajana Roncione.
Niels Bohr (1885) and Desmond Tutu (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Abingdon School and University of Exeter
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Working from
- 1985
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Thom, according to the stars
Core essence
Thom makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Thom is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Thom wants to be loved
Thom wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Thom even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Thom creates
How Thom makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Thom 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: Thom is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Thom 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Thom channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Thom's birth date. Working below.
Where Thom sits
Six lines
Thom’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Thom Yorke
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wellingborough 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 Wellingborough that night
Computed for 52.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wellingborough was Deneb, in Cygnus, 81.9° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 52.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Wellingborough at all: they sit past the −37.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Thomas Edward Yorke
- Known as
- Thom Yorke
- Born in
- Wellingborough, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Rome
Wikidata records Rome as Thom Yorke's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Thom Yorke: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Thom's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Saturn · Yod onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Thom Yorke's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 7, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Thom Yorke was born on October 7, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Thom Yorke's birth date, October 7, 1968, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Thom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thom Yorke's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Thom Yorke combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Thom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aries or Taurus 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
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
Thom’s growth and depths act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Thom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.2° to 2.4° orb
Thom’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn7.3° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 5.4° to 16.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionSaturnorb from 7.9° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Thom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 24°01′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 14°48′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 1°13′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.7°
Thom’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Thom’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Neptune, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.1°
More people like Thom
Other composers
- Céline Dion1968
- Dave Grohl1969
- Billy Corgan1967
- Liam Gallagher1972
- John Rzeznik1965
- Shaggy1968
Born in United Kingdom
- Guy RitchieEnglish filmmaker (born 1968)
- Stephen MoyerBritish actor
- David MacMillanBritish chemist (1968-)
- Rachel WeiszBritish actress
- Denise CoatesEnglish businesswoman
- Ashley JensenBritish actress
More charts like Thom’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Jenna OrtegaAmerican actress
- Aleister CrowleyEnglish occultist
- Sacha Baron CohenBritish comedian and actor
Born in Monkey years
- Kemal SunalTurkish actor
- Richard KindAmerican actor (born 1956)
- Robert AramayoEnglish actor (b. 1992)
Also born on October 7
- Niels Bohr1885
- Desmond Tutu1931
- María Corina Machado1967
- Diego Costa1988
- Toni Braxton1966
- Lewis Capaldi1996
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Chrishell StauseAmerican actress (born 1981)
- Dwyane WadeAmerican basketball player (born 1982)
- Kate WalshAmerican actress
Other Libra Monkey charts
- Ziggy MarleyJamaican reggae musician
- Lil DurkAmerican rapper
- Tyler James WilliamsAmerican actor and rapper
- Kenneth C. GriffinAmerican billionaire hedge fund manager
Other Gilded Pioneers
- Sharna BurgessAustralian dancer
- Billy Ray CyrusAmerican country singer and actor
- Eric ChurchAmerican country singer
- Brooklyn DeckerAmerican model and actress
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Roberto FirminoBrazilian association football player
- Ashley TisdaleAmerican actress and singer
- Miranda CosgroveAmerican actress and producer
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Thom’s cards
Computed from October 7, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188668 (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.
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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 Thom Yorke.
Quick answers about Thom Yorke’s chart
- How old is Thom Yorke?
- Thom Yorke is 58 years old, born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Thom Yorke?
- Thom Yorke is a Libra: born October 7, 1968, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Thom Yorke's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 7, 1968 birth.
- What is Thom Yorke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Thom Yorke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Thom Yorke's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Thom Yorke's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
