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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Thomas M. Disch, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Sagittarius 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.
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
Thomas’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunsquareUranus4.7° to 5.8° orb
Thomas’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.7° orb
Thomas’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.9° orb
Thomas’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.0° to 7.2° orb
Thomas’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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 ℞Cancer 15°22′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Thomas is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 18°49′ (moves 0.11° 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.
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°12′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Thomas attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°43′ (moves 0.38° 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 LilithPisces 15°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Thomas is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Thomas is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thomas M. Disch, 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 February 2, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Thomas M. Disch, 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 Q708581, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- 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 time was Thomas M. Disch 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 M. Disch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 2, 1940 birth date.
- What was Thomas M. Disch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 2, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
