Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962, Syracuse, United States), aged 64, is an American actor and producer. Notable films include Rain Man, The Last Samurai and Eyes Wide Shut. Cruise's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Tom Cruise’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Tiger, with 
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Tom Cruise’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Tom’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tom, according to the stars
Core essence
Tom feels the room before entering it. The core of Tom is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Tom, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Tom openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Tom creates
How Tom makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Tom creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Tom is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Tom is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Tom leads without needing to do it alone.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tom sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Tom Cruise's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 3, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Tom Cruise's birth date, July 3, 1962, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Tom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Cruise's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Tom Cruise combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tom Cruise, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Tom’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.4° to 0.5° orb
Tom’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.8° orb
Tom’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.0° to 1.9° orb
Tom’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssquareUranus1.5° to 2.2° orb
Tom’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.9° orb
Tom’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
Tom’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
Tom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
Tom’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 2.6° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.5° to 16.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Tom’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 ℞Pisces 10°43′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Tom absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 11°12′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Tom is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosGemini 13°30′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Tom is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 6°58′ (moves 0.01° 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 Tom needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 27°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Tom exacting with themselves first.
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 conjunction Sun 0.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.5°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.7°
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°).
Tom’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. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Tom is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Tom’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.
Kite · Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Yod onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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-square Mars 0.1°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tom Cruise, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Tom’s family here
3 relatives of Tom Cruise also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Tom’s cards
Every card is computed from July 3, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tom Cruise, 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
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37079, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Cruise at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 Tom Cruise.
Quick answers about Tom Cruise’s chart
- How old is Tom Cruise?
- Tom Cruise is 64 years old, born July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Cruise?
- Tom Cruise is a Cancer: born July 3, 1962, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
- What is Tom Cruise's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 3, 1962 birth.
- What time was Tom Cruise 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.
- How tall is Tom Cruise?
- Tom Cruise is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Tom Cruise's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 3, 1962 birth date.
- What is Tom Cruise's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 3, 1962 birth date.
- Where is Tom Cruise's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Cruise's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
