Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger (born May 31, 1949, Chicago, United States), aged 77, is an American actor (born 1949). Berenger's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Tom Berenger’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Tom
Tom Berenger’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Tom in the U.S.?
#2206
US rank in 2025
~140,370
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,543 American boys and 9 girls named Tom in 1949: 114th among boys and 3,873rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tom’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Tom apart
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Tom, according to the stars
Core essence
Tom is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Tom needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Tom like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Tom creates
How Tom makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Tom 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: Tom is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Tom is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Tom is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Tom's birth date. Working below.
Where Tom sits
Six lines
Tom’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 86.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.
How unusual Tom's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · No Water planets · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 →Tom Berenger at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Tom Berenger's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Tom Berenger was born on May 31, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Tom Berenger's birth date, May 31, 1949, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Tom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Berenger's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tom Berenger combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Tom’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.7° orb
Tom’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.9° to 2.4° orb
Tom’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 4.1° to 5.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 6.4° to 20.0° depending on birth time
possibleMarssquareSaturnorb from 6.5° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 5°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 24°14′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°11′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 7°50′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.5°
- Eros trine Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Tom’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Tom’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, UranusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.9°
More people like Tom
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- Lawrence Kasdan1949
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- Ian McEwan1948
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Born in United States
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- Lionel RichieAmerican singer, songwriter and actor
- Paul StarrAmerican political writer
- Alan MenkenAmerican composer (born 1949)
- Charles FeffermanAmerican mathematician
- Harry TurtledoveAmerican author (born 1949)
More charts like Tom’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Arnold VoslooSouth African actor
- Ally SheedyAmerican actress
- Anne HecheAmerican actress
Born in Ox years
- Albert CamusFrench philosopher, author, and journalist
- Jawaharlal NehruPrime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
- Enrico FermiItalian–American physicist
Also born on May 31
- Clint Eastwood1930
- Colin Farrell1976
- Brooke Shields1965
- Chien-Shiung Wu1912
- Iga Świątek2001
- Azealia Banks1991
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Gabbriette BechtelAmerican model, musician and chef
- Mikayla NogueiraAmerican beauty influencer
- Desi PerkinsAmerican blogger
Other Gemini Ox charts
- Pieter ZeemanDutch physicist
- Richard RobsonBritish-Australian chemist
- Maxine KuminAmerican poet and author
- William StyronAmerican novelist and essayist
Other Gilded Explorers
- Ralph MacchioAmerican actor
- Brendon UrieAmerican singer and musician
- Michele Morrone AlgoesItalian actor, singer, and fashion designer
- Coco JonesAmerican actress and singer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- LeeseoSouth Korean singer (born 2007)
- WinterSouth Korean singer (born 2001)
- Keshon GilbertAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Tom’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299317 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Berenger 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 Tom Berenger.
Quick answers about Tom Berenger’s chart
- How old is Tom Berenger?
- Tom Berenger is 77 years old, born May 31, 1949 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Berenger?
- Tom Berenger is a Gemini: born May 31, 1949, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Tom Berenger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1949 birth.
- What is Tom Berenger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Berenger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tom Berenger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Berenger's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
