Thomas Lipton
Thomas Lipton (born May 10, 1848, Glasgow, United Kingdom; died 1931), was a British tea merchant and yacht racer. Lipton is best remembered for tea. Lipton's honours include Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and baronet.
Thomas Lipton’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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Thomas Lipton’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Thomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Thomas is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Thomas is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Thomas creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Thomas Lipton's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 10, 1848, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Thomas Lipton was born on May 10, 1848, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Thomas Lipton's birth date, May 10, 1848, 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
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas Lipton's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Thomas Lipton combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Thomas Lipton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.7° to 2.9° orb
Thomas’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb
Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.6° to 3.8° orb
Thomas’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.0° to 3.8° orb
Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter3.0° to 3.4° orb
Thomas’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileMars3.1° to 4.5° orb
Thomas’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb
Thomas’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.2° to 6.3° orb
Thomas’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareUranus6.4° to 6.9° orb
Thomas’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.9° to 7.0° orb
Thomas’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air 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 ℞Scorpio 7°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Thomas carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°46′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Thomas caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCancer 11°35′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Thomas is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°54′ (moves 0.27° 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 LilithScorpio 3°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Thomas is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 trine Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.9°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.9°
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, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thomas Lipton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Thomas’s cards
Every card is computed from May 10, 1848, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Thomas Lipton, 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 Q506188, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thomas Lipton at Wikipedia.
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 Lipton.
Quick answers about Thomas Lipton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thomas Lipton?
- Thomas Lipton was a Taurus: born May 10, 1848, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Thomas Lipton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1848 birth.
- What time was Thomas Lipton 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 was Thomas Lipton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 10, 1848 birth date.
- What was Thomas Lipton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 10, 1848 birth date.
- Where was Thomas Lipton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thomas Lipton's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
