Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally (born October 7, 1935, Sydney, Australia), aged 90, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Pig, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, 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 Keneally in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Thomas Keneally, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Thomas’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.6° orb
Thomas’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.1° to 3.4° orb
Thomas’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineUranus3.1° to 3.4° orb
Thomas’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° to 4.3° orb
Thomas’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMercurysquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
Thomas’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareMars6.4° to 6.8° orb
Thomas’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune7.6° to 7.9° orb
Thomas’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 ℞Gemini 16°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Thomas turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLibra 4°34′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Thomas is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 15°03′ (moves 0.01° 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 ℞Taurus 9°53′ (moves 0.15° 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 19°33′ (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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Thomas is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thomas Keneally, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Thomas’s cards
Every card is computed from October 7, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Thomas Keneally, 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 Q298334, 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 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. 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 Keneally.
Quick answers about Thomas Keneally’s chart
- How old is Thomas Keneally?
- Thomas Keneally is 90 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig.
- 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 time was Thomas Keneally 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 Keneally's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 7, 1935 birth date.
- What is Thomas Keneally's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 7, 1935 birth date.
- 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.
