Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (born Thomas Jeffrey Hanks; July 9, 1956, Concord, United States, 11:17), aged 70, is an American actor and film producer. Notable films include Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile and Catch Me If You Can. Hanks's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Academy Award for Best Actor.
Tom Hanks’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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Tom Hanks’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire 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 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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.
The vibe
Underneath, Tom needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Tom needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Tom like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Tom creates
How Tom makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Tom creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Tom is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Tom slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Tom's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Tom Hanks's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. 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.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Tom Hanks's birth date, July 9, 1956, 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
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Tom Hanks' timed chart: Venus in the 10th house, Mars in the 7th house and Jupiter in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Hanks' timed chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Tom Hanks combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Tom’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SuntrineMarsseparating · 0.1° orb
Tom’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 0.5° orb
Tom’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.6° orb
Tom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 2.7° orb
Tom’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.4° orb
Tom’s growth and depths act as one.
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 3.8° orb
Tom’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 4.0° orb
Tom’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenussextilePlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
Tom’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenustrineNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb
Tom’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 5.1° orb
Tom’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
VenussquareMarsapplying · 5.5° orb
Tom’s affections grind against their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 10°15′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Tom making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAries 17°11′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Tom looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 5°07′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Tom is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 25°32′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Tom is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°11′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Tom is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres square Sun 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Moon 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 2.4°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
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.
Stellium in Leo · Moon, Uranus, 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Moon biquintile Mars 1.5°
Tom’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 11 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 10 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 2 | Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 7 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 10 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 11 | Venus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 11 | Moon, Uranus, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Tom’s cards
Every card is computed from July 9, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2263, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Tom Hanks’s chart
- How old is Tom Hanks?
- Tom Hanks is 70 years old, born July 9, 1956 in Concord, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Hanks?
- Tom Hanks is a Cancer: born July 9, 1956, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- What is Tom Hanks's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1956 birth.
- What time was Tom Hanks born?
- 11:17 local time in Concord, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Tom Hanks's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 11:17 birth time in Concord, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Tom Hanks?
- Tom Hanks is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Tom Hanks's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 9, 1956 birth date.
- What is Tom Hanks's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 9, 1956 birth time.
- Where is Tom Hanks's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 24°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Hanks's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
