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Tom Dean

Tom Dean (born May 2, 2000, London, United Kingdom), aged 26, is a British competitive swimmer (born 2000). Dean is best known for Strictly Come Dancing, series 22.

Tom Dean’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Tom Dean’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

In 2000, 99 American boys were registered Tom — 1,311th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tom’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

3

Soul Urge · being heard

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against 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

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 2000, 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

Strictly Come Dancing, series 22. That is the work the name is attached to.

The schooling ran through Sir William Borlase's Grammar School and University of Bath.

On Wikipedia the categories read Alumni of the University of Bath, Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England and English male freestyle swimmers.

Alec Pierce shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Strictly Come Dancing, series 22
Educated at
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School and University of Bath
Sport
competitive swimming
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Wikipedia editions
26

What the chart says

Tom, according to the stars

Core essence

Tom is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Tom is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Tom runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Tom needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Tom wants to be loved

Tom wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Tom is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Tom creates

How Tom makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tom creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Tom 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 9 is the humanitarian. Tom is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tom

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Tom

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

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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tom Dean

Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Merak, in Ursa Major, 84.4° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

London sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.

How unusual Tom's chart is

Chart pattern score

80 / 100 · Rare

6-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart

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

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Tom Dean's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 2, 2000, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Tom Dean was born on May 2, 2000, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Tom Dean's birth date, May 2, 2000, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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 12° to 26° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.2° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.1° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.2° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.9° orbSun in Taurus · 12°20′☉12°Moon in Aries · 19°27′☽19°Mercury in Taurus · 4°38′☿4°Venus in Taurus · 1°39′♀1°Mars in Taurus · 29°03′♂29°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°31′♃16°Saturn in Taurus · 19°22′♄19°Uranus in Aquarius · 20°36′♅20°Neptune in Aquarius · 6°34′♆6°Pluto in Sagittarius · 12°19′ · retrograde♇℞12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.9° to 3.0° orb

    Tom’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb

    Tom’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.6° to 3.4° orb

    Tom’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.2° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 5.8° to 18.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed8 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What these five are read as, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 16°15′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 25°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 3°25′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 8°23′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 6°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Mercury 1.2°
  • Eros square Venus 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.3°

Tom’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Tom’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.

  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.0°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 1.0°

Born the same day as Tom

Alec Pierce was born on May 2, 2000 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From London, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Tom’s cards

Computed from May 2, 2000. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56020505 (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 National Lottery Good Causes, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tom Dean at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tom Dean.

Quick answers about Tom Dean’s chart

How old is Tom Dean?
Tom Dean is 26 years old, born May 2, 2000 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Tom Dean?
Tom Dean is a Taurus: born May 2, 2000, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Tom Dean's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 2, 2000 birth.
What is Tom Dean's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Tom Dean's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Tom Dean's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Tom Dean's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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