Tom Ford
Tom Ford (born August 27, 1961, Austin, United States), aged 65, is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. Ford has served as chairperson of the executive board. Ford's honours include CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tom Ford’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Tom
Tom Ford’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, 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
Tom ranked 88th among boys and 4,521st among girls in 1961, the year of this birth, with 4,731 American boys and 10 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Tom apart
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908) and Jamala (1983) 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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Tom is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Tom gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Tom is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Tom fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Tom Ford
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Austin 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 Austin that night
Computed for 30.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Austin at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.9° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 30.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 94% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
How unusual Tom's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 2 unaspected planets · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Tom Ford's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 27, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Tom Ford was born on August 27, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Tom Ford's birth date, August 27, 1961, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Tom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Ford's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Tom Ford combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.1° to 1.3° orb
Tom’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Tom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.1° to 4.0° orb
Tom’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus7.0° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 3.3° to 17.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 3.5° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 5.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 4°15′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 29°07′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 26°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.3°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.8°
- Eros trine Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.9°
- Eros square Uranus 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.9°
- Ceres sextile Venus 3.0°
Tom’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Tom’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.8°
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More charts like Tom’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- René ThomFrench mathematician
- Stanislav SmirnovRussian mathematician
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Born in Ox years
- Keith CarradineAmerican actor and singer
- Camryn ManheimAmerican actress
- Jessica GunningBritish television and theatre actress
Also born on August 27
- Lyndon B. Johnson1908
- Jamala1983
- Deco1977
- Mark Webber1976
- Aaron Paul1979
- Don Bradman1908
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- C. Vann WoodwardAmerican historian
- Richard Rhodeshistorian, journalist and writer from the USA
- George WillAmerican newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Billy Ray CyrusAmerican country singer and actor
- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
- Adrienne MaloofAmerican businesswoman and television personality
- Andrew LincolnBritish actor (born 1973)
Other Tidal Seekers
- Myrna LoyAmerican actress
- Ray BolgerAmerican actor
- Ewen BremnerScottish actor
- Trevor HowardEnglish film, stage and television actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Linda ThompsonAmerican actress (born 1950)
- Jordin SparksAmerican singer
- Jerry SeinfeldAmerican comedian and actor
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Tom’s cards
Computed from August 27, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318149 (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 nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tom Ford.
Quick answers about Tom Ford’s chart
- How old is Tom Ford?
- Tom Ford is 65 years old, born August 27, 1961 in Austin, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Ford?
- Tom Ford is a Virgo: born August 27, 1961, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Tom Ford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 27, 1961 birth.
- What is Tom Ford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Ford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tom Ford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Ford's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
