Thomas M. Disch
Thomas M. Disch (born February 2, 1940, Des Moines, United States; died 2008), was an American science fiction author and poet. Disch is best remembered for The Genocides, Camp Concentration and On Wings of Song. Disch's honours include John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Locus Award for Best Novelette.
Thomas M. Disch’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Thomas
Thomas M. Disch’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
Thomas ranked 8th among boys and 750th among girls in 1940, the year of this birth, with 23,991 American boys and 86 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
33
Expression · lifting other people
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
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
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Thomas apart
Shakira (1977) and Ayn Rand (1905) 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 is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Thomas is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Thomas is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Thomas needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Thomas, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Thomas creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Thomas gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 M. Disch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Des Moines 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 Des Moines that night
Computed for 41.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Des Moines at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 25% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Thomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Thomas M. Disch at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Thomas M. Disch's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 2, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
Thomas M. Disch was born on February 2, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Thomas M. Disch's birth date, February 2, 1940, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Thomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas M. Disch's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Thomas M. Disch combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Thomas’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 1.8° orb
Thomas’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.0° to 4.7° orb
Thomas’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.7° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.7° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.0° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.9° to 13.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Thomas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 15°22′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 18°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°12′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°43′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Venus 0.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 3.0°
Thomas’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 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.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.5°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on February 2
- Shakira1977
- Ayn Rand1905
- Gerard Piqué1987
- Farrah Fawcett1947
- Gemma Arterton1986
- John Cornyn1952
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Ayaka FurueJapanese professional golfer
- 24kGoldnAmerican rapper
- DaRon BlandAmerican football player
Other Aquarius Rabbit charts
- Ronald ColmanBritish actor
- Andrey ZvyagintsevRussian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1964)
- Toshihide MaskawaJapanese theoretical physicist
- Seán MacBrideIrish politician and human rights activist
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Tiffani ThiessenAmerican actress (born 1974)
- Kevin SmithAmerican filmmaker (born 1970)
- Letitia WrightGuyanese actress (born 1993)
- Bowen YangChinese-American comedian
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Nick SwisherAmerican baseball player
- Molly ShannonAmerican actress and comedian (born 1964)
- Ivana TrumpCzech-American businesswoman
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
Computed from February 2, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q708581 (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 Thomas M. Disch South Street Seaport 2008-06-03: Houari Boumedienne derivative work: ReservoirHill, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thomas M. Disch at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Thomas M. Disch.
Quick answers about Thomas M. Disch’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thomas M. Disch?
- Thomas M. Disch was an Aquarius: born February 2, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Thomas M. Disch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 2, 1940 birth.
- What was Thomas M. Disch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Thomas M. Disch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Thomas M. Disch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thomas M. Disch's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
