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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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

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 · 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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Thomas sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Thomas

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Thomas

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

PrivateExpressive
Thomas

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Thomas

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Thomas

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Thomas

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Virgo Sun

Sees 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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Thomas Kretschmann was born on September 8, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Thomas Kretschmann's birth date, September 8, 1962, 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

Thomas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Thomas Kretschmann, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.6° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.4° orbSun in Virgo · 15°19′15°Moon in Sagittarius · 29°17′29°Mercury in Libra · 11°59′11°Venus in Scorpio · 1°21′Mars in Cancer · 10°41′10°Jupiter in Pisces · 6°41′ · retrogradeSaturn in Aquarius · 5°33′ · retrogradeUranus in Virgo · 1°50′Neptune in Scorpio · 11°18′11°Pluto in Virgo · 10°04′10°

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
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.

  • 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

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.3° to 3.5° orb

    Thomas’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb

    Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb

    Thomas’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileMars4.4° to 4.8° orb

    Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto4.8° to 5.7° orb

    Thomas’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

  • ChironPisces 8°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Thomas absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresLeo 10°13′ (moves 0.42° 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.

  • ErosLeo 13°12′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Thomas loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • HygieaAquarius 27°31′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Thomas is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • Black Moon LilithLibra 5°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Thomas that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Neptune6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. Pluto6 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Thomas is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 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, the shape it makesKite · 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 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.

  • 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°

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

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Thomas’s cards

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Strength

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Thomas Kretschmann, 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 Q57614, 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 OmTe5, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
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 time was Thomas Kretschmann 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 Kretschmann's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 8, 1962 birth date.
What is Thomas Kretschmann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 8, 1962 birth date.
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.

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