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Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers (born December 12, 1940, New York City, United States), aged 85, is an American reporter. Powers's honours include Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and Berlin Prize.

Thomas Powers’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Thomas Powers’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, 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

11 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

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 the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Thomas is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Thomas is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Thomas runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Thomas

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Thomas

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Thomas

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

PracticalVisionary
Thomas

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Thomas

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Thomas Powers

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Thomas’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 13.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Thomas Powers's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 12, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Thomas Powers was born on December 12, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Thomas Powers's birth date, December 12, 1940, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Thomas’s chart

Thomas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Thomas Powers, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.3° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.2° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.3° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.2° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.3° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.5° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.6° orbSun in Sagittarius · 20°33′☉20°Moon in Taurus · 26°21′☽26°Mercury in Sagittarius · 4°37′☿4°Venus in Scorpio · 19°57′♀19°Mars in Scorpio · 14°32′♂14°Jupiter in Taurus · 6°15′ · retrograde♃℞6°Saturn in Taurus · 8°36′ · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Taurus · 23°06′ · retrograde♅℞23°Neptune in Virgo · 27°37′♆27°Pluto in Leo · 4°02′ · retrograde♇℞4°

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 0°
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.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.3° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.2° orb

    Thomas’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.3° orb

    Thomas’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.8° orb

    Thomas’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

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

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° orb

    Thomas’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.7° orb

    Thomas’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.6° to 6.3° orb

    Thomas’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.9° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.5° to 13.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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 ℞Leo 0°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Thomas performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 29°13′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Thomas is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 7°08′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Thomas is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 24°14′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Thomas needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 20°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Thomas carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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 Sun 0.0°
  • Eros square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.5°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 1.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Thomas is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.9°

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

Born the same day as Thomas

Dionne Warwick was born on December 12, 1940 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Thomas’s cards

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The Steadfast Seeker

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Thomas Powers, 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 Q7793245, 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.

The same Thomas Powers 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 Powers.

Quick answers about Thomas Powers’s chart

How old is Thomas Powers?
Thomas Powers is 85 years old, born December 12, 1940 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Thomas Powers?
Thomas Powers is a Sagittarius: born December 12, 1940, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
What is Thomas Powers's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 12, 1940 birth.
What time was Thomas Powers 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 Powers's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the December 12, 1940 birth date.
What is Thomas Powers's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 12, 1940 birth date.
Where is Thomas Powers's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Thomas Powers's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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