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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

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.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Thomas apart

Thomas Powers took the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971, at 31.

The classrooms behind this chart: Tabor Academy and Yale University.

Wikipedia's editors put Thomas Powers under Non-fiction espionage writers, Tabor Academy (Massachusetts) alumni and Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The same date carries Dionne Warwick. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Tabor Academy and Yale University
Awards
Berlin Prize (2007) and Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1971)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
2

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. Working below.

Where Thomas sits

Six lines

Thomas’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Almach, in Andromeda, 84.2° up.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 97% lit at full moon.

How unusual Thomas's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · No Air planets

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.

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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.

What Sagittarius means →

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.

What the Dragon means →

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.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Thomas’s chart

Thomas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.6° to 6.3° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 0°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Thomas’s dominant planets

  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

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.

  • 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°

Born the same day as Thomas

Dionne Warwick was born on December 12, 1940 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Thomas’s cards

Computed from December 12, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7793245 (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.

The same Thomas Powers at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Thomas Powers's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Thomas Powers's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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