Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, United States; died 1931), was an American inventor and businessman. Edison is best remembered for phonograph and incandescent light bulb. Edison's honours include National Inventors Hall of Fame, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Rumford Prize.
Thomas Edison’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Thomas Edison’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · 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 two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Thomas is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Thomas, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Thomas creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Thomas is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Thomas 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 Thomas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Thomas sits
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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.
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Thomas Edison in 15 seconds
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Thomas Edison's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 11, 1847, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseOpen road, open heart.
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Thomas Edison's birth date, February 11, 1847, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Thomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas Edison's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Thomas Edison combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Thomas Edison, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 6.8° orb
Thomas’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.1° to 1.3° orb
Thomas’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.9° to 1.5° orb
Thomas’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsextilePluto1.3° to 2.3° orb
Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.9° to 3.5° orb
Thomas’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.2° orb
Thomas’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
Thomas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.6° to 4.7° orb
Thomas’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
Thomas’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.7° to 4.8° orb
Thomas’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileUranus4.7° orb
Thomas’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.7° orb
Thomas’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 24°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Thomas is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°08′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Thomas is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°13′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Thomas is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 10°34′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Thomas is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 12°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Thomas exacting with themselves first.
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 opposition Pluto 0.1°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.7°
- Ceres square Sun 1.7°
- Eros square Uranus 1.7°
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. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Thomas is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thomas Edison, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Thomas’s cards
Every card is computed from February 11, 1847, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Thomas Edison, 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 Q8743, 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 Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thomas Edison at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Thomas Edison’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thomas Edison?
- Thomas Edison was an Aquarius: born February 11, 1847, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- What was Thomas Edison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 11, 1847 birth.
- What time was Thomas Edison 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 was Thomas Edison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 11, 1847 birth date.
- What was Thomas Edison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 11, 1847 birth date.
- Where was Thomas Edison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thomas Edison's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
