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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, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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

Of the names registered in 1962, Tom came 98th among boys and 5,813th among girls, carried by 4,171 American boys and 7 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tom’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, not the name they published under.

8

Expression · direction and scale

9

Soul Urge · meaning

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Tom apart

Tom Cruise took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama in 1990, at 28.

The classrooms behind this chart: St. Xavier High School and Henry Munro Middle School.

The working life starts in 1981, at 19.

Tom Cruise was born to Mary Lee Pfeiffer and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, married Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes and raised 2 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Tom Cruise: American expatriate actors in Canada, Actors from Glen Ridge, New Jersey and Academy Honorary Award recipients.

Franz Kafka (1883) and Julian Assange (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St. Xavier High School, Henry Munro Middle School and Glen Ridge High School
Awards
Saturn Awards (2002), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1997) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1990)
Nominated for
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1981
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
126

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. Working below.

Where Tom sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Tom

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tom

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Tom

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tom

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Tom

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tom

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tom Cruise

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

Tom’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 78.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 16.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Syracuse that night

Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Syracuse was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 78.5° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.0°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 Syracuse at all: they sit past the −47.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 4% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 2° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Known as
Tom Cruise
Born in
Syracuse, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles · Beacon Hill

Wikidata records Los Angeles and Beacon Hill as Tom Cruise's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Tom Cruise: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Tom's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Saturn · Grand trine

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

Cancer Sun

Remembers 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.

What Cancer means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Tom Cruise's birth date, July 3, 1962, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Tom’s chart

Tom’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.5° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.5° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.8° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Cancer · 11°14′☉11°Moon in Leo · 1°05′☽1°Mercury in Gemini · 19°45′☿19°Venus in Leo · 19°17′♀19°Mars in Taurus · 26°06′♂26°Jupiter in Pisces · 12°41′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Aquarius · 10°01′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Leo · 27°55′♅27°Neptune in Scorpio · 10°49′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Virgo · 8°01′♇8°

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

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

  • 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

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.5° to 2.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune1.9° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto2.7° to 3.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 10°43′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 11°12′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 13°30′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 6°58′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 27°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Tom’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun

Configurations in Tom’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesYod 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

Tom’s family here

3 relatives of Tom Cruise also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Tom’s cards

Computed from July 3, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37079 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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.
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.
What is Tom Cruise's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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