Thomas Kretschmann
Thomas Kretschmann (born September 8, 1962, Dessau, Germany), aged 64, is a German actor (born 1962). Kretschmann's honours include Osgar and Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award.
Thomas Kretschmann’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Thomas
Thomas Kretschmann’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
In 1962, 36,529 American boys and 114 girls were registered Thomas — 9th among boys and 1,007th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Thomas apart
The Osgar came in 2006, when Thomas Kretschmann was 44.
Thomas Kretschmann was 26 when the work began in 1988.
On Wikipedia the categories read East German emigrants to West Germany, Male actors from Saxony-Anhalt and Entertainers from Dessau-Roßlau.
Bernie Sanders (1941) and Avicii (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Osgar (2006) and Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (2006)
- Nominated for
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1988
- Sport
- competitive swimming
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
Thomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Thomas notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Thomas is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Thomas even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Thomas creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: 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. Working below.
Where Thomas sits
Six lines
Thomas’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Thomas Kretschmann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dessau 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 Dessau that night
Computed for 51.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Dessau at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 66% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Thomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · No Fire planets
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Thomas Kretschmann's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 8, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Thomas Kretschmann was born on September 8, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Thomas Kretschmann's birth date, September 8, 1962, 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 Kretschmann's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Thomas Kretschmann combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Thomas’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
Thomas’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextilePluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
Thomas’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareMars1.1° to 1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.4° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.8° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 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 ℞Pisces 8°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 10°13′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 13°12′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 27°31′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.9°
- Eros square Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.5°
Thomas’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Thomas’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
Kite · Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
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Born in Tiger years
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- Avicii1989
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- Caleb RogersAmerican football player
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Other Steadfast Storytellers
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Thomas’s cards
Computed from September 8, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57614 (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 OmTe5, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thomas Kretschmann at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Thomas Kretschmann.
Quick answers about Thomas Kretschmann’s chart
- How old is Thomas Kretschmann?
- Thomas Kretschmann is 64 years old, born September 8, 1962 in Dessau, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Thomas Kretschmann?
- Thomas Kretschmann is a Virgo: born September 8, 1962, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Thomas Kretschmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 8, 1962 birth.
- What is Thomas Kretschmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Thomas Kretschmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Thomas Kretschmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Thomas Kretschmann's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
