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Thomas Cech

Thomas Cech (born December 8, 1947, Chicago, United States), aged 78, is an American chemist, biochemistry professor. Cech's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and National Medal of Science.

Thomas Cech’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Thomas Cech’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Thomas in the U.S.?

#34

US rank in 2025

~2,367,087

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

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

What the chart says

Thomas, according to the stars

Core essence

Thomas is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Thomas is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Thomas wants to be loved

Thomas wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Thomas you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Thomas creates

How Thomas makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Thomas creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Thomas is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Thomas 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 Thomas 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 Thomas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Thomas sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Thomas

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Thomas

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

PrivateExpressive
Thomas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Thomas

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

PracticalVisionary
Thomas

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Thomas

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Thomas Cech

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

Thomas’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 86.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 11.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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.

Thomas Cech at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Thomas Cech's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Thomas Cech was born on December 8, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Thomas Cech's birth date, December 8, 1947, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Thomas’s chart

Thomas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Thomas Cech, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.6° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.6° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 15°48′☉15°Moon in Scorpio · 1°57′☽1°Mercury in Sagittarius · 1°51′☿1°Venus in Capricorn · 10°03′♀10°Mars in Virgo · 2°25′♂2°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 10°01′♃10°Saturn in Leo · 22°40′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Gemini · 24°29′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Libra · 12°36′♆12°Pluto in Leo · 14°51′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.2° orb

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

  • stableSuntrinePluto0.4° to 1.5° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° orb

    Thomas’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.9° to 3.2° orb

    Thomas’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Thomas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.5° to 2.7° orb

    Thomas’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.7° orb

    Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.7° to 5.0° orb

    Thomas’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.2° orb

    Thomas’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.8° orb

    Thomas’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.9° to 13.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Thomas’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.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 18°08′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Thomas carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 25°02′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Thomas looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 0°35′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Thomas is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini or Cancer during this date

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Thomas needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Thomas at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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.

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 3.0°

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°).

Thomas’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. ♃ Jupiter10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

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

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
  • Venus biquintile Pluto 1.2°

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

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Thomas’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Thomas Cech, 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

Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q135180, 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 Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Thomas Cech at Wikipedia and experts.colorado.edu.

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 Thomas Cech.

Quick answers about Thomas Cech’s chart

How old is Thomas Cech?
Thomas Cech is 78 years old, born December 8, 1947 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Thomas Cech?
Thomas Cech is a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1947, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
What is Thomas Cech's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1947 birth.
What time was Thomas Cech 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 Thomas Cech's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 8, 1947 birth date.
What is Thomas Cech's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 8, 1947 birth date.
Where is Thomas Cech's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Thomas Cech's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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