Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally (born October 7, 1935, Sydney, Australia), aged 91, is an Australian novelist. Keneally is best known for Schindler's Ark. Keneally's honours include Booker Prize, Officer of the Order of Australia and Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Thomas Keneally’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Thomas
Thomas Keneally’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
Of the names registered in 1935, Thomas came 9th among boys and 797th among girls, carried by 17,684 American boys and 73 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The record
What sets Thomas apart
Niels Bohr (1885) and Desmond Tutu (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Thomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Thomas makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Thomas 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 Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Thomas and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Thomas creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Thomas is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Thomas has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Thomas's birth date. Working below.
Where Thomas sits
Six lines
Thomas’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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night
Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fomalhaut stood nearest the zenith over Sydney at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.0° above the horizon in Piscis Austrinus.
Of the 67 catalog stars above the horizon, Canopus was the brightest.
At 33.9°S there are stars that never set at all. Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon, 71% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
How unusual Thomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mercury
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 SunEvery side of every argument.
Thomas Keneally's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 7, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Thomas Keneally was born on October 7, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Thomas Keneally's birth date, October 7, 1935, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Thomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas Keneally's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Thomas Keneally combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.0° orb
Thomas’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.8° to 1.5° orb
Thomas’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.4° to 6.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune7.6° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Thomas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 16°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 4°34′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 15°03′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 9°53′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 19°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.0°
- Eros trine Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.3°
Thomas’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Thomas’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
More people like Thomas
Other writers
- Fred Chappell1936
- David G. McCullough1933
- Mario Vargas Llosa1936
- Cormac McCarthy1933
- Kenneth Silverman1936
- Gordon S. Wood1933
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on October 7
- Niels Bohr1885
- Desmond Tutu1931
- María Corina Machado1967
- Diego Costa1988
- Thom Yorke1968
- Toni Braxton1966
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Mario MolinaMexican chemical engineer
- Vincent du VigneaudAmerican biochemist
- Konrad Emil BlochGerman American biochemist
Other Libra Pig charts
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Thomas’s cards
Computed from October 7, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298334 (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 Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thomas Keneally at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Thomas Keneally.
Quick answers about Thomas Keneally’s chart
- How old is Thomas Keneally?
- Thomas Keneally is 91 years old, born October 7, 1935 in Sydney, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Thomas Keneally?
- Thomas Keneally is a Libra: born October 7, 1935, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Thomas Keneally's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 7, 1935 birth.
- What is Thomas Keneally's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Thomas Keneally's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Thomas Keneally's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Thomas Keneally's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
