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Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman (born July 20, 1953, St. Louis Park, United States), aged 73, is an American journalist and author. Friedman is best known for Friedman Unit and The World Is brow. Friedman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and National Book Award.

Thomas Friedman’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Thomas Friedman’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

9 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink

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 feels the room before entering it. The core of Thomas is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Thomas, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Thomas feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Thomas needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Thomas wants to be loved

Thomas wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Thomas like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Thomas creates

How Thomas makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Thomas creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Thomas is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Thomas is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Thomas does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Thomas

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Thomas

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Thomas

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

PracticalVisionary
Thomas

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Thomas

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Thomas Friedman

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

Thomas’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 75.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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 Friedman at a glance

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Thomas Friedman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Thomas Friedman was born on July 20, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Thomas Friedman's birth date, July 20, 1953, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Thomas’s chart

Thomas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Thomas Friedman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.8° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.9° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.9° orbSun in Cancer · 27°40′☉27°Moon in Scorpio · 14°43′☽14°Mercury in Leo · 5°21′ · retrograde☿℞5°Venus in Gemini · 14°07′♀14°Mars in Cancer · 24°06′♂24°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°17′♃16°Saturn in Libra · 21°09′♄21°Uranus in Cancer · 19°20′♅19°Neptune in Libra · 21°11′♆21°Pluto in Leo · 22°06′♇22°

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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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.0° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb

    Thomas’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.8° orb

    Thomas’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Thomas’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.6° to 3.3° orb

    Thomas’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune2.6° to 3.2° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.7° orb

    Thomas’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.5° to 5.1° orb

    Thomas’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 4.9° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb

    Thomas’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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 ℞Capricorn 17°33′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Thomas is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 2°03′ (moves 0.45° 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. Thomas is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 26°12′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Thomas wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 3°54′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Thomas is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°18′ (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.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Mars 2.1°

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. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    6 major aspects

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Thomas is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

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 Cancer · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°

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

Born the same day as Thomas

Joseph Bathanti was born on July 20, 1953 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Thomas’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Thomas Friedman, 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 Q310950, 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 Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Thomas Friedman at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Thomas Friedman.

Quick answers about Thomas Friedman’s chart

How old is Thomas Friedman?
Thomas Friedman is 73 years old, born July 20, 1953 in St. Louis Park, United States.
What zodiac sign is Thomas Friedman?
Thomas Friedman is a Cancer: born July 20, 1953, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
What is Thomas Friedman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1953 birth.
What time was Thomas Friedman 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 Friedman's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1953 birth date.
What is Thomas Friedman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1953 birth date.
Where is Thomas Friedman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Thomas Friedman's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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