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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Tom Ford, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Tom’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb
Tom’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionUranus7.0° to 7.9° orb
Tom’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
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
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 4°15′ (moves 0.05° 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.
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Tom is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 29°07′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Tom is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 26°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Tom carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Tom is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Tom is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tom Ford, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Tom’s cards
Every card is computed from August 27, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Tom Ford, 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 Q318149, 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 nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Ford at Wikipedia, tomford.com, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- 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 time was Tom Ford 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.
- What is Tom Ford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 27, 1961 birth date.
- What is Tom Ford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 27, 1961 birth date.
- 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.
